Giuseppe Ferrara

Giuseppe Ferrara

Birth : 1932-07-15, Castelfiorentino, Tuscany, Italy

Death : 2016-06-25

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Giuseppe Ferrara

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All Human Rights for All
Director
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades
Screenplay
Genoa, Italy, 24th of January 1979. Red Brigades' member Roberto Dura is waiting with two other comrades for trade unionist leader and factory worker Guido Rossa to leave his home to go to work. Three months earlier, Rossa had denounced a work colleague, Francesco Berardi, because he was distributing Red Brigade flyers inside the factory. Berardi was arrested and, after a fast tracked trial, was convicted to four and a half years. ....
Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades
Director
Genoa, Italy, 24th of January 1979. Red Brigades' member Roberto Dura is waiting with two other comrades for trade unionist leader and factory worker Guido Rossa to leave his home to go to work. Three months earlier, Rossa had denounced a work colleague, Francesco Berardi, because he was distributing Red Brigade flyers inside the factory. Berardi was arrested and, after a fast tracked trial, was convicted to four and a half years. ....
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Writer
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Director
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Donne di mafia
Writer
Donne di mafia
Director
Giovanni Falcone
Writer
Giovanni Falcone
Director
Narcos
Screenplay
Three drug traffickers become worried when the realize they may have outlived their usefulness to their boss.
Narcos
Director
Three drug traffickers become worried when the realize they may have outlived their usefulness to their boss.
Il caso Moro
Adaptation
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
Il caso Moro
Screenplay
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
Il caso Moro
Director
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
Cento giorni a Palermo
Story
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
Cento giorni a Palermo
Screenplay
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
Cento giorni a Palermo
Director
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
I ragazzi della periferia sud
Producer
The existence of which is condemned almost all young people born and brought up to the edges of large cities, in a corrupt because of despair and misery that leads to drugs, murder, and prostitution.
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
C.I.A. Secret Story
Writer
Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
C.I.A. Secret Story
Director
Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
Terzo mondo sotto casa
Director
Il sasso in bocca
Screenplay
The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, (Salvatore Giuliano by Franco Rosi, Paisà by Roberto Rossellini) and current news to make this film.
Il sasso in bocca
Director
The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, (Salvatore Giuliano by Franco Rosi, Paisà by Roberto Rossellini) and current news to make this film.
Il sasso in bocca
Editor
The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, (Salvatore Giuliano by Franco Rosi, Paisà by Roberto Rossellini) and current news to make this film.
Resisting in Rome
Director
Resistere a Roma is a documentary short film by director Giuseppe Ferrara, produced by the Ferranti Group, focusing on the Roman resistance movement during the tragic German occupation of Rome. The documentary focuses its attention above all on the dynamics of the attack in via Rasella, to which the Germans reacted with the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine. It was presented in Venice during the 1966 Documentary Exhibition.
I misteri di Roma
Director
Il Cinegiornale della pace
Director