Luigi Di Gianni

Nascimento : 1926-10-20, Napoli, Italy

Morte : 2019-05-10

Filmes

Lucania Persa - Ritorno a San Cataldo
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Appunti per un film su Kafka - Nella colonia penale
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Un medico di campagna
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Carlo Gesualdo. Notes for a film
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The story of the prince musician Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa, who lived between the 16th and 17th century, told by the testimonies of musicians and musicologists such as Francesco D'Avalos, descendant of Maria, the unfaithful wife killed by Gesualdo.
La Madonna in cielo, la
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An anthropological research on the survival of the supernatural in traditional culture. Shot in different locations in southern Italy, the documentary focuses on the link between the cult of the Madonna and ancient rites related to female fertility.
Ailano, la tradizione
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The religious traditions of a town in the province of Caserta, Italy.
La Milano di Achille Bertarelli
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Basilicata, una regione tra due mari
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The Time of the Beginning
Producer
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
The Time of the Beginning
Writer
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
The Time of the Beginning
Director
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
Il cancelliere Krehler
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Montevergine
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La Madonna del Pollino
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The Madonna del Pollino - It is one of the most archaic festivals in Basilicata. The faithful walk to the church after a strenuous journey. The manifestations of religious faith alternate with particular profane celebratory customs that take place outside and inside the temple.
Grazia e morte
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It is set in Naples and faces the so-called cult of the "holy face", examined in the light of the complex Neapolitan religious and religious framework and above all in reference to the cult of the deceased.
La possessione
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Morte di Padre Pio
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This documentary takes its cue from the death of Padre Pio and from the atmosphere of intense popular mourning, so as to examine the birth and development of one of this century's most exceptional myths
Dottori aeropittore futurista
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Documentary about futurist painter Gerardo Dottori.
L'attaccatura
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Il ricevimento
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Il ricevimento
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Una malattia che si chiama Sud
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Chanukkà (Festa delle luci)
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Nascita di un culto
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Short documentary about a pseudo-religious possession set in a southern Italy rural village.
L'Apparizione
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In a small town in Lazio every year a procession is held in honor of San Giovanni, to ask forgiveness for the sins committed, recalling an ancient legend.
The Power of the Spirits
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Set in upper Irpinia, the documentary examines the practice of exorcism in what was the poorest region of Italy.
La ragazza di plastica
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Essere capo
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La tana
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A man lives holed up in an old house, inherited from his ancestors, seeking refuge from the threats of the outside world. Between waking and dreaming, he is the helpless witness to his own disintegration.
Il culto delle pietre
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In Raiano, Italy, the feast of S. Venanzio is celebrated every year. Beside the official celebrations, the most secret and oldest ceremony is the "Cult of Stones": the devotees enter the caves where the saint used to live according to tradition, and rub their bodies on the stones to heal from evil.
Incubo
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Symbology of power of the expressions dominating the man of today. The technologic and scientific progress in an anti-human sense. Freedom humiliated and compromised.
I fujenti
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Tempo di raccolta
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Il lagno
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The Lagno is the canal that crosses Naples, collecting its debris to stop even before reaching the sea. Around its dirty waters, the film outlines a cross-section that is anything but oleographic of the Neapolitan capital, immortalized already in the advanced industrial era and still wearing the signs of war and desperate poverty. After a few spoken notes, the sound commentary is entirely inhabited by a ghostly composition.
Il sogno
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A horse carriage transports a coffin through a village.
Il sogno
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A horse carriage transports a coffin through a village.
Il Messia
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Viaggio in Lucania
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La Madonna di Pierno
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Il male di San Donato
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In Montesano, Salento, during the festivities held in August in honour of Saint Donatus, patron saint of epileptics and the mentally ill, the power of collective suggestion causes strange phenomena and rituals to occur. Luigi Di Gianni, master of anthropological documentary, films the worshippers with Dionysian force as they writhe and scream as if in a pagan rite, showing how the content of the Catholic liturgy succumbs to the primitive passion of popular religiosity.
Vajont (Natale 1963)
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Christmas 1963, cemetery of Fortogna, fraction of Longarone, where the victims of the Vajont disaster are buried (9 October 1963). The survivors spent Christmas here, watching over their dead and praying for them: the Christmas tree was brought to the graves. A certainty emerges from the interviews: what matters are the people, not the money.
Un paese che frana
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La tragedia del Vajont
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L' uomo e la maschera
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I misteri di Roma
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Lotta contro i mostri
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Il Cinegiornale della pace
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Carnevale a Ronciglione
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Le rocce di Belogradčick
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Antiche città bulgare
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Il monastero di Rila
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A document of the Bulgarian Orthodox Monastery of St. John/Ivan of Rila
Grazia e numeri
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Grazia e numeri
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Ragazze dell’avanspettacolo
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L'Annunziata
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L'Annunziata
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Via Tasso
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Frana in Lucania
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Frana in Lucania
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La punidura
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Pericolo a Valsinni
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Pericolo a Valsinni
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Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)
Idea
In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.
Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)
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In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.
Donne di Bagnara
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Magia Lucana
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Short documentary about pagan rites in the countryside.
Altair
Second Assistant Director
In the military academy of the Nisida Air Force a new course begins which sees among the new recruits called "chicks": Giorgio, forced by his father after he squandered millions at the gaming table; De Montel son of a general, Mario who wants to follow in the footsteps of his father who died in combat; Antonio who declares himself Neapolitan while coming from the province and Ugo who comes from the north.
L'arresto
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L'arresto
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