Gianni Schicchi

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.

A family story in the city of Bobbio between 1999 and 2008.

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

A child in anaphylactic shock after an insect sting is brought by her father to a doctor, a foreigner who doesn't speak the language well and is looked at by the town with diffidence.

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.