Dante
A Noite de São Lourenço é a obra-prima dos talentosos Paolo e Vittorio Taviani (Bom Dia, Babiolônia). Esta edição apresenta o filme no formato widescreen, que preserva o aspecto de cinema. Na Itália, a noite de 10 de agosto é conhecida como "a noite de São Lourenço", quando se vê o maior número de estrelas cadentes no céu. Em 1944, esse evento assume uma dimensão trágica no vilarejo de San Miniato, na Toscana, quando os ocupadores nazistas pretendem massacrar a população local. A única esperança de todos é lutar pela liberdade.
The Bastard
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg)
