Didi Perego
1935 - 1993
Kapo
Gillo Pontecorvo
Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
Kapo
The Visitor
Antonio Pietrangeli
Sandra Milo, François Périer
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.
The Visitor
The Girl from Parma
Antonio Pietrangeli
Catherine Spaak, Nino Manfredi
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
The Girl from Parma
Damned the Day I Met You
Carlo Verdone
Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy
Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.
Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
Un uomo da bruciare
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Gian Maria Volonté, Didi Perego
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.
A Man for Burning
Il mio amico Benito
Giorgio Bianchi
Peppino De Filippo, Franco Franchi
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
Il mio amico Benito
La torta in cielo
Lino Del Fra
Paolo Villaggio, Gaby André
This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake). –IMDb
Cake in the Sky
I fuorilegge del matrimonio
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot
This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic situations where divorce is clearly warranted but, because marriage was strictly in the purview of the Catholic Church at that time, which strictly forbade divorce, these people are shown to suffer the consequences in their daily lives. Italy got its first civilian divorce law in 1970.
Outlaws of Love
Le monachine
Luciano Salce
Catherine Spaak, Sylva Koscina
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
The Little Nuns
