Italo Balbo
2021Il varco
Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini
Emidio Clementi, Iana Kichenko
July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)
Once More Unto the Breach
The Conquest of the Air
Alexander Esway, Zoltan Korda
Frederick Culley, Laurence Olivier
This early docudrama uses dramatic re-enactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930's.
The Conquest of the Air
Cinecittà Babilonia
Marco Spagnoli
Vinicio Marchioni, Martina Querini
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
