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Leopard, The (2004)

Subject

History; Italian studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 188 minutes), £19.99 (sale)

A restored, original version of Visconti’s adaptation of the novel by Guiseppe di Lampedusa, set in 1860-62 during the period of Italian unification. It tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family...

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Six Characters in Search of an Author (2002)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 90 min), £14.99 inc

A television adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s modern classic in which the play’s traditional theatrical setting is transposed to a television studio. As a group of actors prepare for a rehearsal of a TV...

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Dante: The ‘Divine Comedy’ (1999 Video)

Subject

Italian studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An introduction to ‘The Divine Comedy’, containing visual intepretations by the Topiary Dance Group; the Doré illustrations of 1861; location footage from Florence; discussions of themes, plot and...

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TV Dante, A: ‘The Inferno’ Cantos I-Viii (1989 Video)

Director

Peter Greenaway; Tom Philips

Producer

Kees Kasander; Denis Wigman

Subject

English language and literature; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., £15.99 (inc. VAT)

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...

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Decameron, The (1970 Video)

aka: Decamarone, Il

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Producer

Alberto Grimaldi

Subject

Italian studies

Distribution

DVD

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.

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