Pierluigi Nardi Masciulli
Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.
Pietro and Eleonora, both avid gardeners, are strangers who only meet because their two terraces are close to each other. The relationship that grows between them helps them to alleviate the pain each feels over something secret and very serious, a pain both try to hide from themselves and those around them. In this limbo they inhabit, the two make a stab at finding happiness together, until their paths diverge once more.
Cuando Alessandra y Emilio se mudan a la ciudad dejando solos a sus padres Carlo y Anna, la vida cambia para todos. En unos meses, los hijos se olvidan de sus padres: algunas llamadas telefónicas, cumpleaños perdidos, funerales perdidos. Pero la gota que colmó el vaso para estos padres es saber que sus hijos no estarán presentes en Navidad. La pareja enfadada y desesperada hace un último esfuerzo: pretenden haber heredado seis millones de euros de una tía anciana. Dinero para comprar afecto.
Torsillo
Dos hermanos que llevan 25 años sin hablarse se reúnen para recuperar el minibólido de su padre... Remake en forma de secuela de la película homónima de Terence Hill y Bud Spencer de 1974.
Himself
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Babbo Natale
Sé stesso
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts.
Bernardo Celli
Six aspiring comedians tired of the mediocrity of their lives, at the end of an evening stand-up course they prepare to face their first performance in a club. In the audience there is also an examiner, who will choose one of them for a TV show. For everyone this is the great opportunity to change their life, for some it could be the last one. The performances begin and each comedian takes the stage with a great dilemma: to respect the teachings of their master, devoted to intelligent and uncompromising comedy, or to twist their numbers to satisfy the much less refined taste of the examiner? Or maybe look for a third way, one of absolute originality? Through the stories of six comedians, Comedians is a reflection on the very meaning of comedy in our time, facing absolutely topical issues.
Fabio Sinceri
We are in 2030, and on vacation we go to Mars! Having made his wife and son Giulio lose his tracks for years, Fabio (Christian De Sica) is about to marry the wealthy Bea on Mars. But what could happen if during an excursion into space, something goes wrong and Giulio suddenly becomes a sprightly old man (Massimo Boldi)? Between hilarious unexpected events and amusing misunderstandings, Fabio will find himself dealing with a seventy-year-old son and a marriage that is in danger of jumping ...
Himself
Tony
The Russian magnate Ivanov dreams about having The Popcorn, his favorite Italian musical band from the 80s in Saint Petersburg.
Writer
Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.
Director
Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.
Thomas/Vittorio Di Paola
Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.
Cesare Proietti
Cesare Proietti is the esteemed manager of the Relais Colombo, a luxury hotel in Milan. When a group of new Chinese business partners want to revolutionize everything, the hotel owner's daughter, Luciana, decides to fire Cesare. When Cesare discovers Luciana is looking for a caregiver who can look after her father, he decides to dress up as a charming woman to apply for the role.
Director
Cesare Proietti is the esteemed manager of the Relais Colombo, a luxury hotel in Milan. When a group of new Chinese business partners want to revolutionize everything, the hotel owner's daughter, Luciana, decides to fire Cesare. When Cesare discovers Luciana is looking for a caregiver who can look after her father, he decides to dress up as a charming woman to apply for the role.
Co-Writer
The Tucci family discovers that they have not really lost all their money and, refusing to pay Italian taxes, decides to turn Torresecca into a tax haven, relying on a post-Italian unification bureaucratic oversight.
A montage paying homage to old Cinepanettoni.
Danilo Tucci
The Tucci family discovers that they have not really lost all their money and, refusing to pay Italian taxes, decides to turn Torresecca into a tax haven, relying on a post-Italian unification bureaucratic oversight.
Danilo Tucci
The "Tucci" are a poor Italian family living in a small village in Lazio. Father, mother, a conceited daughter and a genius son, forced to pretend being stupid to keep up with the family. One day something unexpected happens: the family wins one hundred million Euros. Excited, they decide to keep the winning a secret, but as soon as a single word slips out from the mouth of the householder, they only have one choice to avoid being persecuted by friends and acquaintances: run away. They leave at night, heading to Milan. They will realize as soon as they arrive that today's rich people behaves very differently from the past, and being rich has become a real bother... this discovery will make things way different from what Tuccis' expected.
Self
An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema.
As a solar storm unfolds, causing power surges and blackouts, a storm of emotions rages within Regina, a spinster referred to as Fräulein, when a childlike sexagenarian checks into her hotel. What should be one night becomes a stormy coexistence all its own.
Mario Grossi Tubi
Three comedic and intertwined episodes.
Screenplay
Three comedic and intertwined episodes.
Preside Filippo Brogi
Pippo Dagnini
Gabriele Brunelli (segment "Non è vero ma ci credo")
Self
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers with deep respect towards the Roman actor trace an affectionate and sincere portrait not only about an Artist but, above all, about a man with his habits, his ideas, his tics, his vices and his virtues. And for the first time Mrs Aurelia – Alberto Sordi’s sister who is dedicated the documentary – opens the doors of the beautiful house of Via Druso where the actor has lived since 1958. In this way we are led by Carlo Verdone (a sort of Virgilio whose Dante Alighieri wrote about but we are not in the Hell but in the Seven Heaven where there is the source of the Italian Cinema) and on the tips and staying in silence we can go into the rooms of this wonderful house which reveals the true, authentic character of Alberto Sordi.
Ciambellano
A princess has to pretend to be in love with a rude and ignorant boy to obtein success among her citizens.
Alberto Benni
Ascanio Cavallini
Roberto Covelli
During the Christmas holidays, in Cortina d'Ampezzo interweave three stories.
Paolo
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
Carlo Boffa
Carlo, on vacation in South Africa with his second wife Susanna meets her younger brother Giorgio.
Colonnello Lombardi
Frank es un turista americano que viaja a Italia para tratar de recuperarse de un fracaso amoroso. Elise es una extraordinaria mujer que deliberadamente se cruza en su camino. Con el incomparable marco de Venecia como telón de fondo, Frank se deja llevar por la atracción del romance, pero en poco tiempo él y Elise se verán envueltos en un torbellino de intriga y peligro.
Luciano Baietti
Unscrupulous businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing holding company.
Carlo / Germano
The story of some Italians at Beverly Hills during the Christmas holiday.
Self
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Paolo Berni
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged.
Paolo Cioffa
Camillo 'Lillo' Ferri
During the holidays of Christmas, three groups of funny characters depart from Italy to spend the Christmas season in New York City.
Giorgio
Three heartbroken Italians look for sexual escapades in Christmastime Miami: divorcée Giorgio invites himself to stay with his best friend Mario—unaware the latter's having an affair with his ex-wife—and ends up pursued by Mario's barely-of-age daughter; Paolo and his friends have their plans to get laid foiled by his busybody and out of touch father Ranuccio, who'll soon crash also Giorgio's vacation.
Writer
Dino and Franco, two mechanics in Rome, unrepentant bachelor and friends to the skin, leave for Las Vegas to attend the international gathering of Harley-Davidson, one of the great passions they have in common ...
Franco
Dino and Franco, two mechanics in Rome, unrepentant bachelor and friends to the skin, leave for Las Vegas to attend the international gathering of Harley-Davidson, one of the great passions they have in common ...
Director
Dino and Franco, two mechanics in Rome, unrepentant bachelor and friends to the skin, leave for Las Vegas to attend the international gathering of Harley-Davidson, one of the great passions they have in common ...
Fabrizio Barbetti
A middle-aged man’s relationship with a young model is questioned by his daughter, who’s dating an older man herself.
Luca
Luca Morandi, conocido por ser un ladrón no violento, no tiene eleccion que hacer un trabajo para la policía: abrir la bóveda de la sede en el banco del Norte en Barcelona.
Fabio Detassis
Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take place.
Fabio Ciulla
Womanizing lawyer Fabio follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his past infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is bumbling police chief Enrico, who's desperate to keep his rebellious daughter from becoming a showgirl. The two meet on a Nile cruise. Calamity ensues.
Fabio Trivellone
Cuatro hombres italianos se ven repentinamente involucrados en situaciones incómodas, mientras pasan las vacaciones de Navidad, atrapados en Ámsterdam.
Fabio Leone
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, which together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks to have scuppered the plan to capture a secret agent.
Avvocato Covelli
Milanese and Naples people go to Cortina d'Ampezzo on Christmas holidays
Cesare Proietti
Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.
Cesare "Faina" Proietti
A montley group of free-lance photographers are desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity.
Screenplay
Roberto
Director
Ascanio Colonna
The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time.
Ascanio Colonna
While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue them result in trips through various ages of ancient Italy.
Baron Jacopo del Serchio
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
Writer
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
Director
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
Remo Proietti
Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem.
Story
Un retrato amargo, melancólico, y al mismo tiempo cariñoso, de un grupo de amigos homosexuales que tratan de afrontar su diferencia en medio del caos de una metrópoli.
Screenplay
Un retrato amargo, melancólico, y al mismo tiempo cariñoso, de un grupo de amigos homosexuales que tratan de afrontar su diferencia en medio del caos de una metrópoli.
Director
Un retrato amargo, melancólico, y al mismo tiempo cariñoso, de un grupo de amigos homosexuales que tratan de afrontar su diferencia en medio del caos de una metrópoli.
Vittorio
Un retrato amargo, melancólico, y al mismo tiempo cariñoso, de un grupo de amigos homosexuales que tratan de afrontar su diferencia en medio del caos de una metrópoli.
Cesare Atticus
En el antiguo imperio romano, la rivalidad entre un juez honesto y un taimado senador dará lugar a multitud de divertidas situaciones.
“Sátira sobre la corrupción dominante en la política italiana, a mayor gloria de Nielsen, pero ambientada en la roma imperial. Atención a Anna Falchi ¡tremenda!”
Don Buro / Roberto Torri
Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Screenplay
Un vivales de poca monta salva la vida de un rico empresario, que quería suicidarse, y enseguida se hacen amigos.
Story
Un vivales de poca monta salva la vida de un rico empresario, que quería suicidarse, y enseguida se hacen amigos.
Director
Un vivales de poca monta salva la vida de un rico empresario, que quería suicidarse, y enseguida se hacen amigos.
Barabba
Un vivales de poca monta salva la vida de un rico empresario, que quería suicidarse, y enseguida se hacen amigos.
Cesare Proietti/Lando Marcelli
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Enzo
Durante las Navidades de 1991, en un lujoso palacio de Saint Moritz, pasan las vacaciones un grupo de personas adineradas, que se entregan a toda clase de actos libertinos. Mimmo y Rino son una pareja gay; Mimmo es una mujer separada que tiene niños pequeños...
Story
Christian de Sica interpreta el papel que hizo su padre en 1937 en "Bajo aristocrático disfraz" y Alberto Sordi en 1957 en "El conde Max", el de Max, un romano de a pie fascinado con la clase alta, que confundido por un aristócrata, se hace pasar por enamorado del status y sobre todo, de una mujer.
Screenplay
Christian de Sica interpreta el papel que hizo su padre en 1937 en "Bajo aristocrático disfraz" y Alberto Sordi en 1957 en "El conde Max", el de Max, un romano de a pie fascinado con la clase alta, que confundido por un aristócrata, se hace pasar por enamorado del status y sobre todo, de una mujer.
Director
Christian de Sica interpreta el papel que hizo su padre en 1937 en "Bajo aristocrático disfraz" y Alberto Sordi en 1957 en "El conde Max", el de Max, un romano de a pie fascinado con la clase alta, que confundido por un aristócrata, se hace pasar por enamorado del status y sobre todo, de una mujer.
Alfredo / Max
Christian de Sica interpreta el papel que hizo su padre en 1937 en "Bajo aristocrático disfraz" y Alberto Sordi en 1957 en "El conde Max", el de Max, un romano de a pie fascinado con la clase alta, que confundido por un aristócrata, se hace pasar por enamorado del status y sobre todo, de una mujer.
Director
Tony
En un lujoso hotel de montaña se entrelazan las vidas de cinco personajes. Un camarero pobre gana luna apuesta en una carrera de caballos pero pierde la voz. Va a recuperarse al hotel y conoce a una dama rica. Dos viejos amigos se reencuentran tras una discusión, y uno se enamora de la esposa del otro. Otros dos amigos se hospedan en un chalet cerca del hotel, y uno de ellos se enamora de la mujer de su mejor amigo.
Walter Danesi
The nightlife of young carefree friends in a wonderful 60s Rome.
Cesare Proietti / Cristiano Gardini
Tres episodios unidos por el hilo conductor de un coche alquilado por tres personajes diferentes.
Ciardulli, aka Tony Brando
Los antiguos compañeros de una clase de instituto se reúnen en una fiesta quince años después.
Furio
Mario nicknamed Jerry
Tom and Jerry two Italian two bit actors go to America because they hope to take part in a film starring Sylvester Stallone. However when they go to his villa in Beverly Hills, Stallone gets murdered and the two are suspected of the murder. Hunted by the CIA and the FBI they flee across the USA disguised as women and end up working in a restaurant as showgirls. Here Tom meets a Mafia boss who falls in love with him and goes to Mexico with him to escape the police hunt. Some years later the two friends meet again: Tom has married the boss's ex girlfriend even if he still dresses as a woman.
Alberto Spina
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.
Sandro
Continuano le avventure degli yuppies milanesi, sempre tirati a lucido, "di casa" in via Montenapoleone o al Nepentha, impeccabili nel vestire e "vincenti" sul lavoro, un po' meno nella vita privata.
Dos ineptos detectives neoyorquinos, reciben el encargo por parte de una joven y misteriosa mujer llamada Caterina, de trasladarse a Italia para comunicar a su novio Carlo que ha sido secuestrada. Los enamorados son los herederos de dos familias irreconciliables, y la unión supondría el final de un odio secular que se ha venido transmitiendo de generación en generación...
Antonio Borazzi, culturista e vincitore del buono premio di 500.000 lire
Una serie de sketches en los que participan clientes y personal de la tienda de varios departamentos de un centro comercial.
Sandro
Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo e Sandro sono 4 giovani yuppies rampanti nella "Milano da bere" degli anni '80, che vivono nel mito dell'Avvocato Gianni Agnelli e di Silvio Berlusconi; il loro unico scopo nella vita è apparire anziché essere. Giacomo è un pubblicitario, Lorenzo è un notaio, Sandro è un dentista, e Willy è un venditore di automobili.
Alberto Spina
In the barracks of the "Settecamini" fire brigade in Rome, the shabby Squadra 17 tackles missions with resounding failures, waiting in vain for a chance for redemption.
Don Buro (Frà Rodolfo da Ceprano)
Un grupo de estudiantes de la escuela de San Crispín se toman unas vacaciones en Estados Unidos, viajando desde Nueva York hasta Los Angeles. El cura Don Buro tiene grandes dificultades para controlar a los jóvenes, además se distrae con la atractiva madre de uno de los chicos.
Giovanni Pennisi
Ante el juez Pennisi pasan cada día montones de ciudadanos, algunos delincuentes, pero casi siempre se trata de gente común, aquejada de muy diversos problemas.
Roberto Covelli
Llegan las vacaciones de Navidad y disfrutar de la nieve en Cortina d'Ampezzo es una buena opción. Mario, un chico de Roma con poco dinero, se enamora de la Samantha, la novia norteamericana del hipocondríaco Roberto. Billo, cantante y playboy, se junta con Ivana. Ahora está casada con un hombre rico, Donatone, pero en el pasado tuvieron un romance y ella quiere encender la llama otra vez.
Presentatore Sfilata (uncredited)
Un hombre (Carlo Verdone) se hace pasar por cura para poder estar cerca de su amada sin que nadie sospeche de su condición de enamorado.
Felicino Carraro
Los hermanos Paolo y Marina han ido con sus padres a pasar las vacaciones de verano en una playa. Los dos jóvenes no conocen a nadie allí.
Juan Lopez y Aragona
La rica Anna Tassotti Maloni es una evasora fiscal que, delatada, se ve obligada a huir del país antes de su inminente detención. De camino al aeropuerto tiene un accidente por culpa de un coche que se salta un semáforo en rojo; lo conduce Achille Cotone, un policía que, ignorando quien es, la lleva al aeropuerto. Tras el despegue, Cotone se entera del error que acaba de cometer. Tras descubrir que la evasora se encuentra en España, Achille convence al comisario para acompañarle a traer de vuelta a Italia a la delincuente.
Stella
Marcello
Sergio, un chico tímido y torpe, consigue empleo como representante comercial de una editorial especializada en publicaciones musicales, pero no vende nada, y es el menos productivo de su empresa. Así que recurre a la más productiva, Nadia, un torbellino de chica para hacer una jornada juntos y aprender. Pero Nadia se retrasa a la cita y confunde a Sergio con el cliente al que esperaban. El cliente, un millonario mitómano, se lo llevaron esposado un rato antes, pero a Sergio le dio tiempo a conocerlo, y fascinado por su personalidad, la adopta suya al conocer a Nadia.
Carletto Morosini
Tony, un rudo campesino, está muy preocupado porque su mujer Emma, la dueña del patrimonio familiar, se está muriendo. Para evitar que su hija Rosa, de quince años, divida las tierras cuando se case, hace firmar a su mujer un poder que estipula que Rosa no podrá casarse mientras viva su padre. El conflicto surge cuando, Fernando, un huérfano adoptado por la familia, se enamora de ella.
Venditore di tappeti
Un grupo de torpes terroristas retiene a un extraño grupo de inquilinos de un edificio de apartamentos.
Attilio
Un dentista se embarca en el yate de sus sueños con la mujer de la que está enamorado.
venditore in stazione
Carmelo (Enrico Montesano), toma el tren para llevar a su pequeño hijo Malcolm (Lorenzo Aiello), a la casa de su abuela en Sicilia, en el sur de Italia. En el largo viaje se cruzarán con una extensa procesión de personajes excéntricos, pero también le ofrecerá a Carmelo alguna satisfacción, cuando conoce a Beatrice (Sylvia Kristel), una hermosa paleontóloga en viaje de estudios, que transporta el esqueleto de un animal raro. Su revoltoso hijo Malcolm interferirá en la relación, impidiendo siempre que se concrete...
Claudio Anzalone
La historia transcurre en la casa del señor Argante quien en su afán de tener compañía se ha convertido en un hipocondríaco quien en todo momento cree tener algún tipo de enfermedad con la intención de reclamar cuidados de parte de su esposa, sus hijas y por supuesto, de su criada Tonina, pero cuando la terquedad del hombre es tal que decide casar a su hija Angélica con un médico sin importar el verdadero amor de la joven.
Gian Galeazzo Lo Cascio
Todos los alumnos del instituto se preparan para el final de curso. Carletto y Pulvio viven conjuntamente las más diversas aventuras. El primero quiere ser director de cine, y Pulvio quiere ser rico y famoso aunque tenga que robar para conseguirlo. Para llevar a cabo la función de teatro que tienen prevista necesitan un local, y buscan a otro compañero cuyo padre es propietario de varias salas.
Carlo
Un desconocido realizador americano viaja a Cannes para promocionar su película. Allí, la esposa de un productor se interesa en la historia y comienzan un romance.
Giovannino Calì
Ugolino
Una multinacional norteamericana del sexo abre en Italia una sucursal de su negocio más rentable: burdeles para mujeres ansiosas de experiencias eróticas poco comunes.
Vito Militiello
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.
Daniele Vanturoli
A finales del siglo XX las reservas energéticas del planeta han acabado por agotarse, sumiendo al mundo en un nivel de vida similar al de épocas anteriores a la industrialización. Con el fin de encontrar una solución al problema, los científicos investigan posibles formas de energía alternativa. Entre ellos se encuentra el profesor Enrico Coppola, quien estudia la posibilidad de que los impulsos sexuales del ser humano puedan producir electricidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ninì Scuderi
Es una historia de la mayoría de edad italiana sobre dos primos, Enzo y Agata, contados en tres etapas. Con una puntuación de Ennio Morricone.
Mariani, Il Giovane In Treno (uncredited)
Clara lleva una vida miserable: vive en un humilde apartamento de Milán con sus cuñadas y tres niños. Al enfermar de tuberculosis, tiene que ir a un sanatorio de los Alpes italianos. Allí conoce a un mecánico aquejado de la misma enfermedad con el que vive un apasionado romance. El problema surgirá cuando, una vez curada, deba volver de nuevo a su vida anterior.
Luogotenente criminale
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.