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A dramatisation using state-of-the-art visual techniques of Dante’s vision of hell, where figures from Dante’s own time mix with mythological and biblical characters as they suffer for their sins. Dante...
Consists of 10 units with drills based on live interviews. The topics covered include education, industry, politics, science and town planning. The aim is to accustom the student to hearing a wide range of...
Padre Padrone is the intense and powerful tale of a young, barely literate shepherd boy, who lives under the thumb of his tyrannical and brutal peasant father. Rescued from his family and his isolated...
Feature film about a poor farming family in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. The family sacrifices to send the son to school, but his shoes break and there is no money to replace them.
Recreates background for the street carnivals of the time of Lorenzo de Medici. A group of strolling players presents songs, sketches and a display of tumbling.
An uncut version of Pasolini’s film adaptation of ten stories from Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, his 14th-century reworking of a hundred bawdy Italian folk-tales.
A man named Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) attempts to escape his emotional past by subscribing to totalitarianism in Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece of Italian cinema. But when Clerici is asked to...
To celebrate the centenary of the unification of Italy, the Italian government commissioned Rossellini to make a biopic of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his 1860 campaign to unify Italy. The result is visually...
The winner of the prestigious Silver Lion Award at the 1953 Venice Film Festival, Federico Fellini’s I VITELLONI is a brilliant and sharp observation of Italian social life in the 1950’s. The title,...
Italian writer Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, was born in Rome. As a youth, while recovering from tuberculosis, he began writing about the moral difficulties of people socially...
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