Luciano Virgilio
1943 (83 года)The Great Beauty
Paolo Sorrentino
Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
The Great Beauty
Santa Barbara
Carmine Elia
Vanessa Hessler, Thomas Trabacchi
The beautiful daughter of the Roman governor during a time of fierce Christian persecution is a nonbeliver. But when a slave raised alongside her like a sister is condemned to death for her Christian faith, she valiantly attempts to save her.
Saint Barbara
Tu ridi
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Cederna
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
You Laugh
20 sigarette
Aureliano Amadei
Vinicio Marchioni, Carolina Crescentini
Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian military peace mission.
20 Cigarettes
Il Cielo Cade
Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi
Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé
1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's a Catholic, and worries about her uncle's soul. He's Jewish, progressive and a free thinker, a fair boss, and devoted to his family. He can be stern, so Penny also worries that she'll never please him and that he won't love her. Then, after the Allied forces land in Sicily and the Germans begin their retreat, Penny must worry about her uncle's life. She tries logic and appeals to human decency. Can a child keep the sky from falling?
The Sky Is Falling
Maltese - Il romanzo del commissario
Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Kim Rossi Stuart, Paolo Ricca
In Sicily during the seventies the police chief Maltese finds himself entangled in an investigation that will uncover the widespread influence of Mafia in the area and expose the archaic roots which nurtured it.
Maltese - Il romanzo del commissario
