Daria Calvelli

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

"Documents of the staging" of the play The seagull at the Orologio Theatre in Rome.

"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.

1980년 초, 마약 공급권을 두고 이탈리아 마피아의 신구 패밀리 사이의 갈등이 고조되자 토마소 부세타는 조직생활을 청산하고 가족과 함께 브라질로 떠난다. 그러나 얼마 지나지 않아 그는 마피아의 신진세력인 콜레오네파가 자신의 동료들과 일가친척의 절반을 살해하고, 팔레르모에 두고 온 두 아들마저 실종됐다는 소식을 듣고 절망한다. 얼마 후, 토마소는 브라질 경찰에 마약 거래 혐의로 체포되고 이탈리아로 송환이 결정되자 이탈리아 사법기관에 마피아의 모든 것을 폭로하려는 위험한 결정을 하기에 이르는데.

Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed on 28 March 1896 at La Scala, Milan. The story is based loosely on the life of the French poet André Chénier (1762–1794), who was executed during the French Revolution.

In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and financer of the project, the sister, and a few other people involved in the show. During a dinner party at this rich lady’s house, a hiposis session takes place, where rancor and pain emerge from the brother and sister towards their mother and their impossibility of overcoming them.

Northern Italy, 17th century. In a monastery, a nun accused of witchcraft tries to seduce a young confessor who refuses to yield to his searing temptation.

A child is in the park playing with his plasticine figures, that he modeled himself. His favorite character is Isaac. Isaac is a little boy just like he is, who dreams, hopes and confides in the world. Isaac is happy because this is the day he will accompany his father on the mountains to help him out. Isaac's father is named Abraham.

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.