Barbara Mastroianni

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.

Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). En julio de 1914, un barco de lujo zarpa desde Italia con los restos mortales de la famosa cantante de ópera Tetua. En el barco van sus amigos, famosos cantantes de ópera, y todo tipo de gente exótica. La vida a bordo es dulce, pero el tercer día surge un problema: hay que salvar a unos refugiados serbios, que han huido de la guerra y se encuentran perdidos en el mar.

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.

Roma, 1880. Después de cerrar su panadería, el negocio del que vive toda su familia, Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) comunica a sus hijos Pippo (Gigi Proietti), Mario (Fabio Testi) y Teta (Adriana Asti) que en adelante tendrán que ganarse la vida por sus propios medios. Sin embargo, Irene (Dominique Sanda), la mujer de Pippo, una joven hermosa, calculadora, ambiciosa, utilizará sus dotes de manipulación para adueñarse de la herencia de los Ferramonti.