Production Design
This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The townsfolk—adults, children and foreigners alike—deal with various issues as they try to resume normal lives in a homeless situation.
Production Design
14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-old sister Domitilla accidentally pricks her finger on one of Silvia's used needles without her noticing. Seeking advice on the Internet, Siddharta is told to have her tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Thus he embarks on a odyssey of medical bureaucracy and both kind and uncaring adults.
Production Design
A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman.
Production Design
To inherit a fortune, all Robert has to do is reopen a delapidated theatre and stage "Hamlet". Unknown to everyone else, Robert witnessed a murder in that theatre as a child... and the murderer is one of the cast.
Set Decoration
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.
Set Decoration
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
Set Decoration
ローマ、サベリ街の総合病院の小児科病棟。13歳の少女ヴァレンティナ、通称ピッピ（アレッシア・フガルディ）は生後3ヶ月で発病し、てんかんと診断された。小児精神科の若き医師アルトゥーロ（セルジョ・カステリットー）は、それが誤診であり、心の病であることを直観的に見抜く。彼は薬物を使わない心理療法で発作の原因を探ろうとし、ピッピとできるだけ長い時間を過ごすようにする。アルトゥーロはやがて、ピッピの苦しみは、愛のない生活を続ける母チンチア（アンナ・ガリエナ）と父マルチェッロ（アルマンド・デ・ラッツァ）の歪んだ関係を全身で感じ取った彼女が、いつしか自分が逃げ込める世界を作り上げてしまい、心の行き場を失った時に“発作”を起こすのだと確信する。ある日、彼は“スヌーピー”の本をおみやげにピッピを訪ねた。アルトゥーロは、彼が子供の頃に愛した挿話を話し、「かぼちゃ大王が夢をかなえてくれると信じて、かぼちゃ畑に座って大王を待っていた」と語る。この日を境に2人の間に温かい友情が育まれていく。
Set Decoration
共産主義信奉者の大学教授ブルスキ（マルチェロ・マストロヤンニ）は規則正しい生活を送るのが身上の保守的な人間。ある日、疎遠な息子オリヴィエロから離婚寸前の妻ステラ（サンドリーヌ・ボネール）が出て行ったため、4歳の娘パペレを託される。利発だがちょっと変わった孫娘との生活にとまどうブルスキだが、やがて感受性豊かな彼女との生活が楽しみになる。ところがそこにステラが転がり込んできて状況は一転。奔放で粗野なステラは自分の都合だけでパペレを振り回し、ブルスキと衝突を続けたあげく家を追い出される。1カ月後、交通事故にあったステラを探しあてたブルスキは彼女を家に連れ帰る。奇妙な共同生活が続くなか、ブルスキはステラを本当の娘のように思い始め、3人は家族のようになった。ブルスキから教育を受けて新たな世界に目覚めるステラだが、彼との生活は窮屈だった。ある日、ステラはパペレを連れて家を出て行く。残されたブルスキは人生の黄昏をかみしめるのだった。
Screenplay
In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom--and the queen.
