Cecilia Spano

Películas

Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy
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Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.
Once More Unto the Breach
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Julio de 1941. Después del comienzo de la invasión alemana, un soldado italiano, veterano de las guerras coloniales, es enviado al frente soviético. Mientras recuerda los cuentos de hadas que su madre rusa solía contarle, el tren en el que viaja cruza Europa camino de las vastas llanuras ucranianas, donde le esperan el enemigo y un invierno cruel… (Film basado en las vivencias de varios soldados italianos).
Cinecittà Babylon
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The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.