Europa Centrale
A metaphysical kammerspiel about political fight, betrayal, madness, focusing on a exiled communist couple during a train journey in the early months of WWII.
A metaphysical kammerspiel about political fight, betrayal, madness, focusing on a exiled communist couple during a train journey in the early months of WWII.
Paolo Pierobon
Tommaso Ragno
Catherine Bertoni de Laet
Julia Szapolowska
Matilde Vigna
Gerda Hermet
Angelica Kazankova
Olga Cassola
Levente Molnár
László Molnar
András Bálint
Koloman Moser
Anna Behne
Petra Moser
Laurent Winkler
Train Conductor
A metaphysical kammerspiel about political fight, betrayal, madness, focusing on a exiled communist couple during a train journey in the early months of WWII.
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
An aging soccer fanatic faces down the reality of his past while struggling to give himself and a young follower very different futures.
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire for 'health reasons', and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His unfaithful wife Laura tries to hurt him in any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and at least regain his own self-esteem.
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a questionable fight arranged by their unscrupulous managers and the Yakuza.
A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few years, he tries to start a new life with a new partner, not everything will go as hoped: his daughter's reaction will be exaggerated and Pietro will be put to the test. He will find himself struggling between anger and paternal instinct.
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.