Mario Gallo

A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.

Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and a good job: yet she decides to join him and to become his lover, sharing his destiny right up to its tragic conclusion.

Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and a good job: yet she decides to join him and to become his lover, sharing his destiny right up to its tragic conclusion.

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.

Young radical Riccardo returns home after hiding out in South America for years, only to find out that he has no "home" left: his former comrades in arms have now either bourgeoisified or turned to drugs, and all they fought for seems to have set the stage for near-anarchy.

Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girl.

During a spaghetti western screening a man is shot dead, the doors are locked and the police is called in to investigate.

巨匠ルキノ・ビスコンティの「山猫」と並ぶ代表作で、ノーベル賞作家トーマス・マンの同名小説を原作に、作曲家グスタフの美少年への心酔と老いの苦しみを描いた。「地獄に堕ちた勇者ども」に続いて撮られた、ドイツ3部作の2作目にあたる。療養のためベネチアにやってきたドイツの老作曲家アシェンバッハは、ホテルで少年タジオを見かける。一目で少年の美しさの虜になり、彼の姿を見つけるだけで喜びを感じ始める。全編に流れるのは、アッシェンバッハのモデルになったマーラーの「交響曲第3、5番」。2011年には製作40周年を記念し、ニュープリント版でリバイバル上映された。