Italian

Synopsis: Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.Read More »

Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.

EP #1
Amore Che si Paga a.k.a Love for Money (11 min) directed by Carlo Lizani with a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini. A mosaic of scattered images where the night workers are followed by a man with provocative questions. The short feels as an interview in which the women explain their unfortunate profession.Read More »

Based on a book by Juan Carlo Onetti, the film tells the story of Ossario, a hunted revolutionary leader who sees his comrades die one after another.Read More »

A group of young people want to have some fun in Aeolian islands. After they rescue two naked strangers, they decide to bare them all just like the two strangers do. The story is about the lifestyle of nudism, friendship and love.Read More »

The story of a group of monks, who are enjoying the forbidden pleasure of sexual adventures.Read More »

Quote:
Dirty Hands is a 1948 play written by Jean-Paul Sartre. Of all his plays this was the most discussed and opposed because of its political content, the problems raised, the instrumentalization of which it was the object. The story told, although transposed into a fictitious world, is inspired by the assassination of Leon Trotsky by his secretary Ramón Mercader, a Stalinist agent.Read More »

Three young people leave the psychiatric hospital to lead a “normal life” while working in the factory. They confide in their future prospects. In 1968, alarmed by the catastrophic state of public psychiatry in Italy, the communist municipality of Parma entrusted Mario Tommasini, a former gas worker, with the management of the mental health sector and its reorganization in a revolutionary fashion. This political initiative, inspired by Franco Basaglia, critic of the asylum institution and the origin of Psychiatry outside the walls, marked the beginning of a vast undertaking of social integration of patients.Read More »

An incredibly beautiful young woman loses her husband and in order to pay off his debts, she decided to set-up a raffle in which she is the prize.Read More »

Synopsis:
German ornithologist rents old Villa, in which supposedly has many years no one lived. Walking around the neighborhood, he finds a crumpled foil. Purging them and after listening, he learns the terrible story of this house and its previous inhabitants. Now Professor, unwittingly becomes involved in the terrible events that resulted in a bloody denouement…Read More »