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  1. Falstaff (2012 Video)

    Director
    Tiziano Mancini; Stephen Medcalf
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    Verdi’s opera performed at the Teatro Regio di Parma as part of the Festival Verdi Parma. Ambrogio Maestri is Falstaff. Directed for stage by Stephen Medcalf and for video by Tiziano Mancini. The Orchestra...

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  2. Anger, The (2011)

    aka: Rabbia, La

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini; Giovanni Guareschi
    Subject
    Film studies; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 104 minutes), $29.98

    THE ANGER (made in 1963) taps into topics from the 1950s and the early 1960s, such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. The directors of the film -...

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  3. Altra Europa (2011)

    aka: Other Europe

    Director
    Rossella Schillachi
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £50.00

    This film approaches the question of what happens to African migrants once they have been granted political refugee status in European countries through the story of three Somali refugees. Khaled, Shukri and...

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  4. Birdwatchers (2010)

    aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

    Director
    Marco Bechis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

    A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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  5. Falstaff (2010 Film)

    Director
    Maria Riccetto; Stefano Poda
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    Verdi’s opera performed at the Palais Opéra de Liège. The Opera and Chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie is conducted by Paolo Arrivabeni. Stefano Poda directs for stage and Matteo Ricchetti for...

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  6. Rossellini’s History Films - Renaissance and Enlightenment: Blaise Pascal, The Age of the Medici, Cartesius (2009)

    Director
    Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)
    Subject
    French studies; History; Italian studies; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 546 minutes), $59.95

    "In 1963, Rossellini announced that he had abandoned cinema and would start working in television. He directed nine telefilms on historical subjects and six short documentaries, claiming TV could be used as...

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  7. Gomorrah (2009)

    Director
    Matteo Garrone
    Subject
    Italian studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £14.99

    Based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano Gomorrah is a story of power, money and blood. These are the "values" that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day; they have...

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  8. Iago (2009 Film)

    Director
    Volfango de Biasi
    Producer
    Marina Berlusconi
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film inspired by Othello. Set in the University of Venice, the story follows architecture student Iago, a young man of great talent but humble origins. He is surrounded by aristocrats including...

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  9. Videocracy (2009)

    Director
    Erik Gandini
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £4.99

    Silvio Berlusconi is the most powerful man in Italy, wielding authority and influence across the media, where he controls 90 per cent of television, and in politics, where he is prime minister. He even owns...

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  10. 97.4 (2008 Film)

    Director
    Alessandro de Cristofaro; Alessandro Abbate
    Producer
    Alessandro de Cristofaro; Alessandro Abbate

    Short feature. Alfonso Malaspina is a celebrated stage actor. He is forced to stay at home following a multiple fracture of his leg as a consequence of a car accident. At the Central Theatre, "The Tempest"...

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