Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri

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The Night of the King
Original Story
A medieval tale about a soldier and his responsibility in announcing the tragic death of the King in combat.
Francesca Da Rimini
Original Story
LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 2015.
The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini
Original Story
Eva-Maria Westbroek stars in the title role of Zandonai’s sensuous drama, opposite Marcello Giordani as Paolo. Piero Faggioni’s lush production provides the perfect setting for one of the all-time great tales of tragic passion, adapted from an episode in Dante’s Inferno. Mark Delavan co-stars as Giovanni, the husband and brother of the star-crossed lovers, whose jealousy leads him to kill them both. Robert Brubaker is Malatestino and Marco Armiliato conducts.
La commedia di Amos Poe
Writer
A new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture.
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
Poem
Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.
Rosso
Dialogue
Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers that the target is one of his past loves.
Skärseld
Book
An established writer goes to the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm. He is a family man. In the background another woman. A suicide attempt. His work is rejected by the publisher.
Paolo e Francesca
Original Story
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.
Beatrice
Writer
It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.
Dante's Inferno
Writer
The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.
Dante's Inferno
Poem
The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.
Dante's Inferno
Poem
An adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Divine Comedy.