In Renaissance Rome, young Beatrice Cenci dares to defy her tyrannical father. Imprisoned, abused, and betrayed, she plots her father's murder with the help of her lover and a vengeful servant. When justice turns against her, Beatrice faces execution with unflinching dignity. A death that still echoes throughout the centuries as a cry for freedom and justice.
Fernanda Negri Pouget
Beatrice Cenci
Maria Gasparini
Ettore Pesci
Alessandro Rinaldi
Renato De Grais
In Renaissance Rome, young Beatrice Cenci dares to defy her tyrannical father. Imprisoned, abused, and betrayed, she plots her father's murder with the help of her lover and a vengeful servant. When justice turns against her, Beatrice faces execution with unflinching dignity. A death that still echoes throughout the centuries as a cry for freedom and justice.
Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.