Angelica Ippolito

Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

Rome is on the thresh-hold of the Holy year 1925, the city wishes to present itself as 'spotless' to the outside world. The appearance of a child's corpse puts an end to these aspirations. The police arrest a small time crook who has committed a robbery but has nothing to do with the murder of the child.

Нина снимается в порнофильмах. Ей 28 лет, и таким образом она зарабатывает на жизнь. Ей нравится эта работа, хотя коллеги считает ее бунтаркой. Но у нее нет мужа-менеджера. Она крайне независима и делает то, что хочет. Живет она с Кристиной, редактором порножурнала. Они любят друг друга, хотя очевидно, что союз этот временный. Можно подумать, что Нина — всего лишь объект вожделения мужчин, но на самом деле это она властвует над ними, цинично используя свое тело.

A visionary journey among Roman vistas and various narrative structures that blend with music by Patty Pravo.

Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.

Leo has a dream: to make a movie in the great outskirts of the metropolis (Rome). He does anything for money, including selling cocaine. But his dream vanishes in the night when the police catch his friend.

Полицейский бригадир Людовико Грациано, попав в уличную перестрелку, решает уйти из полиции. Как и многие другие выходцы из села, которые ради лучшей доли вынуждены были поехать в город и работать на аппарат власть имущих, он устал быть «пушечным мясом» для боевиков из «красных бригад» и мафиозных киллеров. Начальник уговаривает Людовико остаться и находит ему более безопасную работу — охрану пожилого судьи-католика Канчедды, занимающегося мелким судопроизводством. Однако вскоре расследование рядового убийства на складе приводит Канчедду и Грациано в высокие сферы продажной итальянской Фемиды и политики.

A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.

Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.

A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.