Baldracchi
Ernesto é um pintor reconhecido, ilustrador de histórias infantis, separado de sua esposa Irene, pai do pequeno Leonardo que ele está profundamente ligado. Ele aprende a partir da misteriosa Don Pugni, Secretário do igualmente enigmático Cardinal Piumini que a Igreja quer para santificar sua mãe. Ernesto fica chocado com esta notícia, não só porque ele percebe que tem sido mantido no escuro sobre sua família, mas também porque este evento está em completa oposição a sua vida artística, de Freeman e ateu. Dentro de algumas horas, as pressões e os passos que ele participa do processo de beatificação se intensifica. Conflitos explodir. A memória de sua mãe e seu sorriso induz uma confusão que vai empurrá-lo a reconsiderar seu passado e viver o presente de forma diferente.
Tortured Victim
A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.
Mario Neri
Orlando, giornalista
The construction of the film is very simple. Most of the time we see faces in close-up. Three pairs of faces, usually, on three different levels of superimpositions. At first, the faces are very theatrical, made-up. It's not clear whether they are men or women. They move only slightly. They are, indeed, godlike. As the film progresses, very unnoticeably, these faces begin to gain more life and masculine and feminine qualities. At the end of the film, after three hours, the faces are very real, and very human, and sexes and ages are very clearly defined: men, women, children.
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
