Victor Cavallo
1947 - 2000
Everybody's Fine
Giuseppe Tornatore
Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Everybody's Fine
Regina Coeli
Nico D'Alessandria
Magali Noël, Luciano Curreli
"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in his private life. The jail director entrusts her with the task to try re-educating Graziano, a young Sardinian sentenced for a kidnapping of which he always proclaimed himself to be innocent. Regina is way too much mature and lonely not to feel intrigued by the mysterious personality of the illiterate shepherd, who expresses himself only in his almost unintelligible Sardinian dialect.
Regina Coeli
Pasolini, un delitto italiano
Marco Tullio Giordana
Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is grievously murdered in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with murder, 17-year-old hustler Pino Pelosi pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual abits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version of events, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?
Who Killed Pasolini?
Il grande cocomero
Francesca Archibugi
Sergio Castellitto, Anna Galiena
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
The Great Pumpkin
Le due vite di Mattia Pascal
Mario Monicelli
Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
L'Albero delle pere
Francesca Archibugi
Valeria Golino, Niccolò Senni
14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-old sister Domitilla accidentally pricks her finger on one of Silvia's used needles without her noticing. Seeking advice on the Internet, Siddharta is told to have her tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Thus he embarks on a odyssey of medical bureaucracy and both kind and uncaring adults.
Shooting the Moon
Excellent Cadavers
Ricky Tognazzi
Chazz Palminteri, F. Murray Abraham
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
Excellent Cadavers
La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo
Bernardo Bertolucci
Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée
The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Verso sera
Francesca Archibugi
Marcello Mastroianni, Sandrine Bonnaire
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
Towards Evening
