Emmer travels across the peninsula in search of the unique features that have always made it a destination for artists, writers, actors, and celebrities. Numerous interviews paint an interesting picture of foreign visitors, who are mainly motivated by a desire to absorb the culture of our land, but are sometimes simply fascinated by the spirit of Italians and their human warmth. Cities, monuments, and works of art are observed through the eyes of exceptional tourists.
Emmer travels across the peninsula in search of the unique features that have always made it a destination for artists, writers, actors, and celebrities. Numerous interviews paint an interesting picture of foreign visitors, who are mainly motivated by a desire to absorb the culture of our land, but are sometimes simply fascinated by the spirit of Italians and their human warmth. Cities, monuments, and works of art are observed through the eyes of exceptional tourists.
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.
1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out. Having landed in Sicily, at Marsala, the Thousand begin fighting with the Bourbon army, whose numerical preponderance is immediately evident. Under these conditions, it appears almost impossible for the general to breach the enemy defense and penetrate Palermo. But when he is almost forced to retreat, Garibaldi devises an ingenious plan.
Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.