Herself
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Self - Actress (archive footage)
La vida del legendario fotoperiodista italiano Paolo Di Paolo a través de sus fotografías, que captan la esencia de una Italia fascinante y turbulenta, la que habitaron Anna Magnani y Pier Paolo Pasolini, un país que ya no existe.
Self (archive footage)
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Herself (archive footage)
The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.
Camilla (archive footage)
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image of his genius as a father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Self (archive footage)
Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.
Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.
Herself (Archive footage)
In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New York, Rossellini invited Bergman to Italy to work on a project. Meanwhile, Anna Magnani, one of Italy’s biggest stars and Rossellini’s longtime lover, was furious. When the Rossellini/Bergman project was announced as a tale set on Stromboli, one of the volcanic Aeolian Islands, Magnani quickly set up her own Aeolian project, financed by Hollywood, to be called Volcano. Italy’s tabloids simply went wild: the prospect of these two great divas battling it out with rival productions was breathlessly followed, especially as it became clear that the Rossellini/Bergman relationship was more than professional. Francesco Patierno has created an engrossing, revealing and highly entertaining chronicle of this cinematic battle royal.
Self (archive footage)
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
himself
Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father
Self (archive footage)
Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".
Archival footage
Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.
Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."
Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.
Herself
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
Self (archive footage)
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Anna Magnani
Durante la construcción del metro de Roma, las excavaciones dejan al descubierto una vieja casa llena de pinturas murales al fresco. Una de ellas representa a una vieja dama de la aristocracia romana, que organiza en su casa unos desfiles de moda muy originales. La película recorre las casas de tolerancia de la época y los espectáculos de la noche romana. Poco después, es Fellini quien recuerda sus años de escolar, entre latines que evocaban a Julio César y Nerón.
Teresa Parenti
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights until the end. His wife, Teresa is a simple woman, who gets involved with the rebels.
Anna
An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.
Jolanda
This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The other three were "La sciantosa," "Correva l'anno di grazia 1870," and "L'automobile" and were all directed by Alfredo Giannetti.
Flora Torres
La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way
Rosa
Bombolini es el alegre borracho local del pequeño pueblo italiano de Santa Vittoria, en los últimos días de la II Guerra Mundial. Cuando llega la noticia de que el gobierno fascista ha caído, es él quien sube a un deposito de agua para desarriar su bandera. Este gesto espontáneo hace que la gente coree su nombre y el ayuntamiento fascista le tome por el nuevo líder del pueblo. Así, se rinden a él y le nombran nuevo alcalde. Bombolini sabrá aprovechar la ocasión y cuando llega la noticia de que los alemanes en retirada pasarán por Santa Vittoria para expoliarlos de su cosecha anual (más de un millón de botellas), pergeñará un plan para ocultar el preciado licor.
Self
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Once episodios vagamente unidos en cinco capítulos. La tonalidad del film va de la sátira vitriólica a las viñetas cuasi antropológicas. Todos los aspectos de la italianidad de la época son cuestionados, burlados o diseccionados con mirada divertida pero crítica: usos, costumbres, personajes, instituciones, etc.
Josefa
Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma es una prostituta que sueña con un bienestar pequeño-burgués. Tras la boda de su protector, se traslada con su hijo Héctor a un barrio decente, donde regenta un puesto de frutas en el mercadillo popular. Héctor es un muchacho de carácter débil e influenciable que se deja arrastrar por los amigos y se enamora de Bruna, una chica que lo inicia en los secretos del amor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
Gioia, (una rubia Anna Magnani) intenta por todos los medios pasar la noche de fin de año celebrándola adecuadamente. En cambio, se encontrará junto a Umberto Vernazzi (Totò) llamado Infortunio, que se ve obligado a ser el cómplice de Lello, un carterista que ha decidido aprovecharse de la confusión de las celebraciones colectivas para conseguir robarles las pertenencias a los invitados de las fiestas en las que los tres, se van encontrando. Gioia, sin ser consciente de ello, se interpondrá en sus planes.
Lady Torrance
Adaptación de "La caída de Orfeo", drama de Tennessee Williams. Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (Marlon Brando) es un músico de Nueva Orleáns que lleva una vida errante y muy irregular que le crea frecuentes problemas con la ley, razón por la cual se ve obligado a cambiar de ciudad continuamente. Durante un viaje, se detiene en Two Rivers, cerca del Mississippi. Allí consigue trabajo en la tienda de Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani), una mujer madura de origen italiano que se convierte en su amante. Al mismo tiempo, tambien se siente atraído por Carol Cutrere (Joanne Woodward), una joven alcohólica que corresponde a sus sentimientos.
Egle
Lina, sirvienta de una familia acomodada, tras ser acusada de complicidad en un robo, termina en prisión. Allí conoce a a una delincuente habitual, que con su fuerte caracter, le hará aprender a ser mas independiente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Gioa
Tras quedarse viudo, un próspero inmigrante que posee un rancho en Nevada, hace venir de Italia a su cuñada para casarse con ella, con la esperanza de que sea como su mujer. Pero su nueva esposa, frustrada y despechada, se refugia en los brazos de su atractivo hijastro.
suor Letizia
Una misionera que ha estado en África durante 20 años es enviada a un convento cercano a Nápoles, donde toma cariño a un niño cuyo padre ha muerto. La madre del niño está a punto de abandonarle para seguir a un hombre del que está enamorada, y que piensa emigrar a Estados Unidos.
Serafina Delle Rose
Serafina delle Rose (Anna Magnani), una apasionada mujer de origen siciliano que vive en una población sureña, vive entregada al recuerdo y a la fidelidad de su marido, muerto a manos de un policía. Pero un día conoce a un rudo camionero (Burt Lancaster) y su vida empieza a cambiar. En su primera película en Hollywood, Anna Magnani se llevó el Oscar a la mejor actriz.
Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
Camilla
América española, siglo XVIII. A una pequeña ciudad llega una compañía italiana de teatro. Camilla, la estrella del espectáculo, debe elegir entre tres hombres: el Virrey, un joven oficial y un torero. Es un homenaje a la Comedia del Arte.
Screenplay
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
Anita Garibaldi
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
Maddalena Cecconi
En los estudios de Cinecittà, el director Alessandro Blasetti está haciendo un casting para seleccionar a la niña que actuará en su nueva película. Entre las madres que han llevado a sus hijas está Maddalena Cecconi, una mujer de barrio que sueña con ver a su hija en el Olimpo de las grandes estrellas. Contra la voluntad de su marido, Maddalena no repara en medios para conseguir su objetivo: inscribe a María en un curso de baile y actuación, le paga fotógrafo y peluquera, le encarga vestidos a medida. En su obsesión, confía incautamente en Alberto Annovazzi, un especulador sin escrúpulos que dice tener los contactos necesarios para que María realice la prueba.
Nannina
Anthology film by three directors, "A Day in the Country", "Jofroi" and "The Miracle".
Maddalena Natoli
An exiled Italian prostitute (Anna Magnani) shields her sister (Geraldine Brooks) from a deep-sea diver (Rossano Brazzi) on an island volcano.
The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
Consta de dos episodios: “La voce umana” (La voz humana) y “Il miracolo” (El milagro), ambos protagonizados por Anna Magnani. En el primero se narran sus problemas amorosos con su amante a través de una conversación telefónica y en el segundo se imagina que conoce a San José y se enamora de él.
Linda Bertoni
Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.
Assunta Spina
Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
Liana, la prostituta
A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.
Angelina Bianchi
En una popular barriada romana, centenares de familias viven sumidas en la pobreza. Allí vive Angelina, la mujer de un suboficial de policía, que trabaja duramente para mantener a sus cinco hijos.
Gioconda Perfetti
Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
Lidia
Después de luchar en el extranjero durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Ernesto regresa a Italia y se encuentra con su casa destruída, su madre muerta y su novia desaparecida. Poco después, conoce a una fascinante mujer que lo introducirá en el mundo de la delincuencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ada
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Adele Vicarelli
A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.
Nannina Straselli
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
Pina
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Estando Roma ocupada por los nazis, la temible Gestapo trata de arrestar a Manfredi, el líder del Comité Nacional de Liberación. Annie Marie ofrece refugio en su casa a Manfredi y a algunos de sus camaradas, pero los alemanes descubren su escondrijo y rodean la vivienda; algunos partisanos consiguen escapar por los tejados, pero Manfredi es apresado.
Elena
Elena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back while her sister Monica invites her lover Filippo.
Maria Comasco, l'attrice
Mary Dunchetti
Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.
Elide
Peppino trabaja como pescadero en el Campo de' Fiori, famoso mercado romano, junto a Elide, una frutera con la que se pasa el día discutiendo. La idea de no casarse la comparte Peppino con su amigo Aurelio, el barbero; pero esa idea se desmorona cuando conoce a la hermosa Elsa.
Virginia
La mondana
Zizì
The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
Ninetta
Maddalena/Loletta
El joven médico Pietro Vignali, al verse endeudado por culpa de su novia Loretta, una encantadora cantante. Después de intentar vender todas sus pertenencias, acaba trabajando en un orfanato de niñas para liquidar sus deudas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Wanda Reni
In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.
Ivana
Marietta, la cameriera
A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
Fanny
Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
Pierotta
Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
Emilia - la cameriera
A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
Anna, la sua amante
1834. Tras asesinar a una Marquesa, un bandido huye con el botín, sin saber que ha sido visto por la hija de la víctima. A causa de la conmoción la niña entra en shock y pierde la vista. Un hombre inocente es juzgado y condenado a muerte por el crimen. Después de la ejecución, su hijo viaja a Londres a terminar sus estudios de medicina; cuando regresa, diez años después, la niña es ya toda una mujer y él, perdidamente enamorado, intenta devolverle la vista.
