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The characters include a dirty-dealing 80-year-old mayor with a troubling Fascist past and a bloodthirsty middle-aged writer - also an ex-Fascist, who has now turned Marxist-Leninist and is ready to settle his accounts with history. There is a young leftist idealist, a city councilperson who is fighting real estate speculation. This is the portrait of Latina and its inhabitants. This province is certainly an anomaly, but is not so far from the present-day times that all of Italy is going through now.
Exploration of Lucania, a region of Southern Italy with maintains rich history and traditions, thanks to the faith of its people. Between devotional processions of saints and Madonnas, rows of wind turbine blades that have partly transformed a landscape at times wild and the incessant flow of seasons dictated by the wind, the author goes in search of a spirituality that our times seem to have lost
Are Italians good people? debatable. But ours are, without any doubt, not warlike people, also because the millenary history of the country has seen too many wars, violence and pestilences. starting from this particular historical condition, Scherza con i fanti wants to be a universal hymn to peace, but above all it presents itself as a journey that passes through recent Italian history, exploring the difficult and even ironic relationship of the population with the military world and, in general, with power through four war diaries.
Documentary about Bassa Reggiana, that region of Emilia crossed by the Po river that was the world of the great screenwriter and master of Neorealism Cesare Zavattini.
A passionate, disillusioned and possibly (self)ironic portrait of a generation of filmmakers who decided to tread the rugged paths of real cinema.
Silvio, One of us, shows the current political mood in Italy and through some portraits investigates the phenomenon of how far Berlusconi and his politics mirror Italy.
Documentary about Sergio Leone
Italy, early 1930s. Thousands of peasants, recruited in the northeastern regions, leave their land to work on the reclamation of the Pontine Spamps. The "redenzione dell'Agro", with the construction of five new cities, quickly became a banner of fascist propaganda. Mussolini promises everyone a piece of land and the glory of having participated in a historic enterprise.
A Donatello award nominated documentary looking at the last centenary of the CGIL - the largest trade union in Italy.
Three stories to narrate the relationship between mount Vesuvius and the humanity living at its feet. Maria and her flower garden, Matteo, an artist who paints using the volcano's ashes, and Yole, a neo-melodic singer whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is almost idolatric.
A 1998 Italian film.
The choral work of 57 directors and filmmakers who tell stories of Milan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
