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In August 1954, Alcide De Gasperi, now at the end of his personal and political career, left the Christian Democrats' headquarters in Rome and visited his daughter, Lucia, a nun. He revealed to her that he had definitively retired from active politics and was leaving for Sella for a period of rest, necessary for his precarious health. Upon arriving in Sella, where he was reunited with his family, the statesman and his grandson Giorgio went for a walk in the mountains, and there, prompted by the boy's questions, he began to recount his life story, an often painful journey down memory lane.

Discover Verdi’s magnificent ‘hometown’, the Parma region. From the small village of Le Roncole, near Parma, where Verdi was born, to the estate situated close to Parma, where Verdi always returned and chose to spend most of his life, despite the great triumphs he achieved in Milan, Venice, Naples and other major cities. We discover how Verdi ‘still lives on’ in the region and has even shaped the local landscape, from the daily life of a simple farmer to that of one of the world’s greatest opera stars, Leo Nucci, who is a regular guest at the Verdi Festival in Parma. From the 27-opera box set ‘Tutto Verdi’.

Teresa hopes that her social climbing ambitions will be fulfilled by her young son, Jacy. When he learns that his mother has started an affair, Jacy leaves home and embarks on a series of short-term liaisons with several women. He ends up by marrying a retarded but incredibly rich woman. His mother's hopes have finally been realised. Meanwhile, Teresa has herself found love and happiness, with a schoolteacher.

Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scraping together food and drink with various scams. Emperor Nero's wife, the beautiful Poppea, takes an interest in Ottone, who after a short stint as a gladiator gets a region to manage and an army of his own to command, all the while assisted by his best friend and partner in crime Savio.

Mike returns home in order to leave his gunfighting days behind him and settle down on a farm with his old sweetheart but things do not go as planned. Finding Jane murdered, Mike is set upon and left for dead by her 7 killers who also steal his life savings of $10,000; all in $50 dollar bills. They leave only seven dollars and Mike vows to track down every man, paying him back with a solitary dollar and death.

Homeless veterans Lilli and Aníbal find a baby in the dumpster on Christmas Eve. Although he looks healthy, they decide to take him to the nearest hospital, where they discover that no one else can see him.

Francesca is an exodate, that is one of the 390 thousand workers that the Fornero reform has left at home waiting for a retirement age raised at the last minute, creating a limbo in which people who had worked for a lifetimethey are seen without an income and a well-deserved rest. The situation of Francesca is particularly delicate because she lives alone with a 16 year old niece who does not understand the economic difficulties in which her grandmother has crashedblame.

A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?

"Men on the edge of a nervous breakdown" - Vincenzo, Gianni, Nicola and Pino are four friends who for years have been seeing every Monday to play poker. But this time Nicola is in crisis with his wife. The evening is ruined, but Pino has an idea. Why not invite a "ring"?

The short film is a reflection on our society, as it looks at our relationship with drugs and the internet and the way these forms of addiction tend to dilute the value we place on human interactions. However, Nope! isn’t a criticism generally associated with these themes, but rather an ironic, light and playful insight into today’s youth culture. The new generation of dreamers and creators is represented as fluorescent, digital and slightly foggy. In line with Schinaia’s directorial style, the short film relies on compelling visuals and sound as much as on the script to unfold its narrative. Working exclusively with a very young team across styling, music, cinematography, post-production, sound design, graphic design and illustration, Nope! becomes a tribute to the fresh and innovative creative talent of tomorrow.

Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.

Four stories about unfaithful wives and jealous husbands.

Documentary directed by Alessandro Perrone.

The impossible love between one prostitute, managing a bunch of handicapped prostitutes, and the homosexual Adamo. In the horrible suburb of Napoli we can follow among fantasy, mythology and reality the absurd life of the protagonists.

Italian version of the play People, Places & Things. The story follows Emma, an actress whose life unravels under the weight of addiction. As she enters rehab, she is forced to confront her past, her identity, and the illusions she has built around herself, blurring the line between performance and reality in a raw and deeply human journey toward recovery.

A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover.

When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between his calling and his orders.

“ Bird 100 ” , a tribute to Charlie Parker on the centenary of his birth ( Aug. 29, 1920). The story of Bird, the revolutionary musician and the man tormented by the “ evil of living, ” is told by Franco Maresco with the support of archival materials and the participation of pianist Salvatore Bonafede and alto saxophonist Orazio Maugeri.

A forty year old woman, who has been in an asylum, goes to live with her brother's family. She proves incapable of adapting herself to family life, takes refuge in the country alone with her memories, and is later returned to the asylum.

Italian naval secret agents acquire a British codebook and the Italian counter-espionage agents start tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information.

Filmed on location at the Macchiascandona restaurant, Grosseto, Italy, October 1998.

The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.

Alex and Dino are two enstablished plastic surgeons used to change their patients' physical aspect with a few cuts of scalpel. Leo and Cosimo are two clumsy cops on the trails of a powerful and dangerous boss of which no one knows the face. All these five characters will stumble upon each other's life, in a comedy full of misunderstandings, twists and laughs, where, in the end, everyone will try to save his own "face".

A day in the life of a train station.

There was once upon a time the Grand Duchy of Forilalì where Aladdin lived. After taking part in many robberies, he decided to turn honest for the love of the beautiful Princess Esmeralda. But his intention lasted only a few days. Afterward he found himself in jail with his old companions. They were freed by the magician Magrebì and in a night of lunar eclipse, Aladdin found a magic lamp. He succeeded in cleaning his sister Adalgisa's house with the help of the genie and then, with no help at all, to marry Esmeralda. But evil powers were in action.

Sultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The councillors then call people who can excite them by telling stories. At the end of their tales, he will finally be able to enjoy her.

Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.

An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and embrace each other emotionally. But it is not so and soon the cannon will thunder. Uncle Tigna, who was hiding the prisoner and two of his companions, will fall victim to the Nazis.

A native America named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only not on his side, but he is banished from town, beaten up, and left for dead. Now he wants his revenge...

Adventure and comedy film by Piero Regnoli.

A priest investigates paranormal activity at a nuns' convent where a deep, dark secret is about to resurface in the guise of murder! Could the devil be behind this, or is that just what Mother Superior wants everyone to believe?

In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.

Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, editor-in-chief of a major newspaper, rejects him. Shortly afterwards, Rupert discovers Alice dead, murdered. Fearing charges, he asks one of his reporters, Barney Morgan, to direct suspicion to Michel. But Michel's lawyer shows Barney that the husband is innocent.

When their mother dies, Fabrizio and Guglielmo decide to take her on one last trip.

Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro. It tells the story of 16th century's Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.

Never repentant, never a collaborator with justice, but a 'political soldier' as he described himself in an interview with Sergio Zavoli, Vinciguerra remains a solitary cell, who over the years has repudiated right-wing militancy mixed with the state and its democratic system. Not a neo-fascist, but a fascist, determined to serve his entire sentence without seeking any reduction, as a reminder of the interference between the state and black terrorism, Vinciguerra despises all forms of democratic systems and anyone who is part of them.

By tracing the places of Vittorio De Seta films and looking for people who had contact with him, as the Cozzo Disi sulfur miners, Ganzirri swordfish fishermens and shepherds who attended in drama Banditi a Orgosolo, the documentary focuses on great change started in local cultures of the Southern Italy from 1945. The film includes an interview with De Seta, conversations with the film directors Luciano Tovoli, Franco Maresco, Gianfranco Pannone, writers Vincenzo Consolo, Goffredo Fofi, Eugenio Turri and the critic Marco Gazzano. Set in Calabria, Sardinia and Sicily, the film was shot in 35mm film and digital, contains stock footage and images taken by De Seta.

Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy.

A family reunion is disrupted by possibly the real Santa Claus collapsing in Penn Station - minor miracles ensue across the city of New York.

People of a volcanic island 'Stromboli' share their memory of beautiful actress Ingrid Bergman starred in Stromboli directed by Rossellini. Their testimonies describe relations around Stromboli . Movie scenes and the island's scenary are crossed, enriching life and art.

Retired Colonel Harper wishes to retire to his ranch, but the malicious Bart Ambler also has an interest in the property. Harper and his partner, half-breed Larry Mallory, now have a fight on their hands.

A couple in crisis after the birth of their first son rekindles their love during a trip to Norway.

A lonely Styrian woman saves a mysterious stranger who is revealed as a vampire. The two befriend each other, eventually falling into a doomed romance. Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's novella.