A Ring a ring-o' Roses of love stories, waiting times and impossible departures which takes place in a square. The most awarded short-film at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival.
The movie is composed by cinematographic material of the First World War, gathered in the archives of the great empires that faced each other. The gathered footages show the life of the war prisoners, orphans, refugees (women and children) and the victims of the war, of both parties.
Doubts, uncertainty and images of a little girl living in 1977: unions, abortion, demonstration and… Grease!
The intarsia panels in the choir of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore were designed by Lorenzo Lotto and realized by Giovan Francesco Capoferri between 1524 and 1537. The enigmatic depictions can be understood with the help of alchemic metaphors. Starting from the "Magnum Chaos", the initial gaping void, the Man tries to reach the Light of the Truth and the Abso...
Fred Leuchter, a true story. The great documentarist Errol Morris accompanies us through the eccentric story of Mr. Leuchter. Once a sought-after expert in building electric chairs, he turned into a poor sod and was fought by the same system that used him as a fundamental element when, in 1988, he was sought as a witness for the defence of Ernst Zündel on trial in Canada for...
The incipit of Goethe's Wanders Nachtlied names this film which is the natural sequel of Prisoners of war. Both the movies are made up of archive footages which, thanks to a meticulous two-years-long research, have been found, studied, disassembled and edited. The images speak for themselves, beautiful, yet horrible, anti-rethorical, and specular. They tell us about the land...
The movie is composed by private footages shot in the Balkans in the 20's, 30's and 40's.
Through the interviews of Revelli, Rigoni Stern and some friends of Carlo, accompanied by the images of the journey to Russia, the archive material from the Soviet Union and the music of Massimo Zamboni (a member of CCCP-Fedeli alla linea and CSI), the documentary tells the story of a son, who progressively comprehends his father's life: a path which goes from a complete lac...
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. was realized during the shootings of the monumental documentary Shoah. In Shoah nobody of the main Jewish characters had given testimony for Sobibor, one of only two successful uprisings at a Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War, a revolt that Lanzman defines " Jewish people's recover of their strength and violence". The rec...
A young Ucrainan woman works full time as house keeper and in-house nurse. Anxiety and melancholia accompany her through her last working day, but hope dies last...
