Self (archive footage)
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Self
Tewfik
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
Gaetano Reina
Целых тридцать лет Джо Валачи был послушным солдатом нью-йоркской мафии и ее крестного отца — печально известного гангстера Вито Дженовезе. Начав с мелкого уличного воришки, в конце своей долгой карьеры он занял должность личного шофера Дженовезе. Попав на склоне лет в тюрьму, он решил покончить с прошлым и рассказать все, что знает о внутренней структуре «Коза Ностры». Приговоренный к смерти своим бывшим хозяином, назначившим за его голову награду в 100 тысяч долларов, Валачи понял, что отступать уже поздно. И на потрясенных слушателей пролился настоящий поток крови — бесконечные гангстерские войны, устранение конкурентов, казни провинившихся, жуткие убийства, совершенные со невероятной жестокостью, постоянная грызня между заправилами мафии.
Tony Nicosia
Молодой гангстер Роже Сарте совершает побег из фургона, перевозящего его в тюрьму из Дворца Правосудия. Все проходит удачно благодаря помощи главы сицилийского клана Витторио Маналезе. Роже нужен ему для участия в дерзком ограблении. Клан намерен совершить кражу уникальной коллекции драгоценностей, собранной в Риме для международной выставки. К операции готовятся долго и тщательно. Поскольку выставка будет проходить в Нью-Йорке, американский друг Витторио Тони Никозиа предлагает привести план в исполнение во время полета и захватить добычу.
Massimo De Winter
împăratul Traian
В 106-м году нашей эры никто и не помышлял о развале Римской империи. После решающей битвы пала столица даков, и императору Траяну принесли отрубленную голову дакийского царя Децебала. Во имя семьи, во имя любви, во имя чести — и после страшной гибели своего царя даки вновь поднимаются на битву с римлянами.
Bardo Baretti
Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more to try to stop them.
Captain Di Nonno
Фильм задуман, как часть программы ООН по борьбе с наркотиками, и снят по рассказу Яна Флеминга, литературного отца Джеймса Бонда. На благородный призыв ООН откликнулись многие знаменитые актеры.
Thanks
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the final marathon race through Tokyo's streets. Two athletes are highlighted: Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who receives his second gold medal, and runner Ahamed Isa from Chad, representing a country younger than he is.
Marucchelli
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
Max Branzeri
Lisa, a young wealthy has just been dumped by one of her lovers. One night at a bar in Torremolinos met Paul Vallier and asks Rudolph will you call tonight? Vallier is a writer in crisis intellectual and sentimental. Lisa falls for him but he is engaged to another man. An overdose of pills makes it look clear and at the last moment when he would fly out with her fiance is advised by an old friend of Vallier to return to him. Well it does and it is in the same bar and join hands.
Marcello
Эпизоды жизни на пляже в Версилии. Офицер попадает в двусмысленное положение из-за любимой. Зрелый, но достаточно красивый, мужчина, чтобы получить деньги от дамы в бальзаковском возрасте, влюбляется в Лолиту, которая приводит его к пониманию, что надо смириться с горькой действительностью его существования и его возраста. Красавица продает конфеты и сладости. Двое друзей заняты воздушной рекламой...
Livio Bertana
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
Soldato strabico col pallottoliere
Два простака завербовываются в итальянскую армию во время Первой Мировой войны и по чистой случайности умудряются помочь выиграть важное сражение.
Herr im seidenen Anzug
General Hugo
Adventure about the life of legendary bandi Fra Diavolo (played by Tony Russel).
Ruiz / André Leboeuf
Orlandi
The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.
Maj. Fornari
1941 год. Два офицера британской армии майор Ричардсон и лейтенант Бёрк отправляются на разведку, и их самолет терпит крушение на вражеской территории. Итальянский офицер капитан Блэси берет их в плен. Ричардсон и Блэси довольно быстро находят общий язык и начинают испытывать друг к другу симпатию. Но война есть война, и им приходится сражаться друг против друга…
Amenophis IV
Действие фильма разворачивается в Древнем Египте во времена правления фараона Аменхотепа IV (Эхнатона, 1375-1336 гг. до н. э.), мужа царицы Нефертити, выступившего против многобожия во главе с верховным богом Амоном-Ра и введшего культ поклонения единому богу, Атону. Молодой скульптор Тумос влюблен в прекрасную Танит, которой с рождения предназначено стать жрицей, что является препятствием их браку. Отменить такое предначертание имеет право только фараон и Тумос отправляется за помощью к своему другу детства царевичу Аменхотепу, который ведет боевые действия против врагов в пустыне.
Tamal
В африканской пустыне терпит крушение вертолет. Трое друзей, выживших после катастрофы, пытаются добраться до людей и попадают в таинственную и загадочную Атлантиду, погребенную в песках. Правит этой страной принцесса Антинея.
Salvatore Acierno
Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.
Self
A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films; Episode 3: His Films with Giulietta Masina; Episode 4: "La dolce vita" and Neorealism.
Coronel
В испанской деревне Ронда против войск Наполеона борется вооруженная группа под командованием Антонио, в которого влюблена Микаэла. Но Антонио страстно любит красивую цыганку Кармен. После кровавого противостояния с французскими солдатами Антонио находит убежище у Кармен. Сгорая от ревности, Микаэла предаёт любимого и сообщает о месте его убежища французам. Антонио попадает в тюрьму. Тем временем сержант французской армии Хосе влюбляется в Кармен.
Professor De Lattre
Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure.
Il presentatore alla conferenza stampa
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
The State Secretary
An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
Prime Minister Manuel Godoy
Она богата, молода и красива, она подчиняет своему влиянию всех — даже испанского короля; среди ее любовников — всесильный премьер-министр Годой. Полюбив Гойю, она находит в себе силы отказаться от собственного счастья ради того, чтобы художник мог спокойно создавать свои шедевры, не страшась костра инквизиции.
Andrea, capitano del mercantile
Lucas is an orphan who lives with his mother Mary, a worker in a factory in Barcelona. One day they meet Captain Andres.
Carlo Casati
Ciccone
A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
Alberto Lazzari
Проститутка Кабирия, работающая в одном из самых дешевых районов Рима, как и все её подруги вульгарна, грязна, драчлива, остра на язык. Но вопреки своей древней и циничной профессии, она по-детски наивна и добра, с маниакальным упорством надеется найти мужчину своей мечты и стать честной женщиной. Её сердце жаждет любви, но мир жесток…
Miguel
Miguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the death of its driver. Miguel gets his station but is haunted by what he did to obtain it.
Embajador Michel de Caroli
Shortly after moving to Madrid, a dancer is killed. His condition as a womanizer, in addition to his arrogance, makes us suspect that it is a crime of passion. As the investigation progresses, the doubts and jealousy of one of his neighbors threatens to ruin his family life.
Cesare Monti
Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
Costantino Corraine
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.
Carlo Conti
A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better new life.
L'ingegnere Guido Carani
Guido Carani, an engineer of noble descent, has just lost his son born to him by a chorus dancer, who, desperate, has become a nun. After a while he also loses his wife and daughter in a boating accident. Poor Guido is in despair, but soon he meets Lina, a woman who is a dead ringer for Luisa.
Andrea Morandi
"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea". Gradually she falls in love with him, but he never reciprocates. Things become further complicated when a letter from her first love "Carlo" is discovered.
Jacques Barnaud
A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
Roberto Varesi
Cousins James and Robert are in love with Susanna. When Robert and Susanna announce their engagement, James vows to ruin their happiness.
Carlo Savelli
Massimo
A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.
Il dottor Illuminato
Анна Дзакео жаждет настоящей истинной любви. Увы, девушка настолько великолепна, что истинная любовь является последней вещью, о которой большинство мужчин думает при виде ее прекрасных форм. Однажды Анна знакомится с моряком Андре и понимает, что настоящая любовь пришла в ее сердце и свадьба не за горами. Анна устраивается на работу в рекламное агентство, где ей предлагают запечатлеть на рекламном плакате ее замечательные, стройные ножки. Анна возмущена, но фотограф обманом делает снимки. Фото вышло в тираж - публика в восторге, родственники возмущены, будущий муж разгневан и отрекается от своей возлюбленной: его предрассудки сильнее любви...
Paolo Martelli
Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.
Stefano Brunot
Northern Italian Stefano marries sweetheart Maria by proxy while working abroad in Canada. However, she is mistakenly accused of her sister's crime of abandoning her own child and, when Stefano finds out, he decides to call off their marriage.
colonnello Felt
Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.
Capitano Giordani
In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.
Andrea Fabbri (segment "La morsa")
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Prosecutor Antonio Spicacci
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
Riccardo Sartori
Refugee Franca Gabre comes to the Po Valley with intent to use her obvious attributes and man-swaying talents to gain some security. She targets farm-owning brothers Riccardo and Carlo Sartori and uses the latter in an attempt to reach Riccardo, the older brother.
Docteur Detouche (version italienne)
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Guido Canali
The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.
Piero Castelli
The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.
Pietro
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
Francesco Leverrier, ispettore di polizia
An Italian sailor and soldier rebuilds his post-war life in Argentina.
Beppe Musolino
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
Michele Pezza detto 'Fra Diavolo'
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
Major Mauri
Giovanni
A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
Professor De Carlo
An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type.
Franco Santinelli
Carlo Guarnieri
Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.
Rocco Barra
Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
Vitaliano Lamberti
Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his countryman Count Lamberti to intervene on his behalf with the Governor of Milan.
Guglielmo Aniello
A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover.
Don Juan de Serrallonga
Damian, the butler
Pugaciov
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
Gaetano Donizetti
Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.
Renato Scalesi
zu Bastiano
A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca
Ernesto
Два боевых товарища, Эрнесто и Карло, возвращаются по окончании войны в Италию. Друзья спешат в родные места к своим близким, но обещают друг другу когда-нибудь встретиться. Страна лежит в руинах, улицы городов наводнили представители криминального мира, от мелких жуликов до влиятельных торговцев живым товаром. Эрнесто пытается найти «законную» работу, но случай сводит его с обаятельной Лидией, руководительницей банды грабителей…
Captain De Palma
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
Rodolfo Morigi
An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.
Se stesso
One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers.
Amedeo Rossi
This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.
Michele
Massimo Odiot
Loris Ipanov / Ivan Petrovic
This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
Petruccio
A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew shot in wartime Italy.
Neri Chiaramontesi
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
Salvatore, aka 'Il Nero della solfara'
Venice Film Festival 1942
Filippo Colleoni
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Paolo Wronski
Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
Bernardino Visconti
Tito Scacchi
Michelangelo Merisi, il "Caravaggio"
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
Il professore Stefano Boronkay
A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life.
Fabio Regoli
In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
Pietro Lanfranchi
Stefano Di Marco
Phil Gilder
Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal. Still, Grace falls for Phil Golder, a violinist penniless. The director of the residence will notice and the best friend of the girl impersonate violinist girlfriend to try to save Grace dismissal.
Woods
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
Gianni / Hans
Pietro Mirilli
Venice Film Festival 1940
Capatosta
Jack
Doctor Carlo Cristiani
Rocco
Venice Film Festival 1939
Giulio
Gerardo di Jersay
Luciano Serra
Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups?
Francesco di Bréchard
Fulvio Castiglioni
Pietro
Umberto Solaro
Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
Antonio Rondinelli
Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
