Vittorio Taviani Movies

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant...

Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego...

This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios...

This documentary offers us a view of skating rink where anyone can enter at a minimal price. On another rink, however, are sportsmen in training some...

A documentary about Italy's underground oil and metan deposits, sponsored by Italian state-owned oil company, ENI. Pictures of the state-of-the-art...

After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.

The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they...

This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this...

Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling...

At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of...

Ignazio Buttitta, in front of a billboard with drawn representations, narrates the problems of Sicily in the manner of Sicilian storytellers. This...

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

Toward the end of World War II, the village in Italy where the filmmakers are from is threatened with destruction by the Germans.