Angelo Musciagna

The story of Italian soundtrack composer Piero Umiliani, from his post-war beginnings in the jazz combos of the Allies, to being one of the first to experiment with lounge and electronic music in Italy.

Are Italians good people? debatable. But ours are, without any doubt, not warlike people, also because the millenary history of the country has seen too many wars, violence and pestilences. starting from this particular historical condition, Scherza con i fanti wants to be a universal hymn to peace, but above all it presents itself as a journey that passes through recent Italian history, exploring the difficult and even ironic relationship of the population with the military world and, in general, with power through four war diaries.

Are Italians good people? debatable. But ours are, without any doubt, not warlike people, also because the millenary history of the country has seen too many wars, violence and pestilences. starting from this particular historical condition, Scherza con i fanti wants to be a universal hymn to peace, but above all it presents itself as a journey that passes through recent Italian history, exploring the difficult and even ironic relationship of the population with the military world and, in general, with power through four war diaries.

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.

For the first time, a film about what's inside, behind, before, beneath and in the pockets of Italian animation legend Bruno Bozzetto.

Two boys, two teenage sweethearts launched and overwhelmed in the great whirlwind of war. Dreams and hopes shattered: a story like many others - But he is the son of Benito Mussolini, she is the last family member to meet him in life. Exciting and dramatic stories told with the letters of the two young people including the one Mussolini wrote to his dead son.

Two boys, two teenage sweethearts launched and overwhelmed in the great whirlwind of war. Dreams and hopes shattered: a story like many others - But he is the son of Benito Mussolini, she is the last family member to meet him in life. Exciting and dramatic stories told with the letters of the two young people including the one Mussolini wrote to his dead son.

Two boys, two teenage sweethearts launched and overwhelmed in the great whirlwind of war. Dreams and hopes shattered: a story like many others - But he is the son of Benito Mussolini, she is the last family member to meet him in life. Exciting and dramatic stories told with the letters of the two young people including the one Mussolini wrote to his dead son.

Cinecitta, the great movie studio built by Mussolini, became universally known as 'Hollywood on the Tiber' and as Fellini's second home. But in an interim period (1944-50) it served very different functions, quite unlike that of a dream factory. Under the Nazi occupation of Rome it was a transit camp for deportees, then following the liberation, it was transformed by the Allies into one of the largest displaced persons camps in Italy.

The epic of Hercules and Maciste to the live voices of witnesses and through the images of the Italian film journals. And through interviews with Carlo Lizzani, Enrico Lucherini, Citto Maselli, Rosalba Neri, Mimmo Palmara, Carlo Verdone.