Roberto Herlitzka
Also Known As: Roberto Herlitzka
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Birthday: October 03, 1937
Deathday: July 31, 2024
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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It's Easier for a Camel...
Overview: As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Good Morning, Night
Overview: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Dark Eyes
Overview: Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-02-01
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Christine Cristina
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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The Red Shadows
Overview: An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-04
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The Demons of St. Petersburg
Overview: St. Petersburg, 1860. After a member of the imperial family is assassinated, Fyodor Dostoevsky meets one of the conspirators, who reveals that his comrades are planning another attack to the Tsar's life. Plagued by debts and struggling to finish his latest novel, Dostoevsky must act fast to call off the plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-04-24
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Le fils préféré
Overview: Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events. However, by rebuilding family unity, Jean-Paul also discovers the secret of his own destiny...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-21
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Aria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Virgo - A Woman's Cold Feet
Overview: Future. Planet Earth. An aged man receives a package from the global government in which he finds a fascinating hologram that will accompany him during his last day of life. We will witness his sad birthday party while he waits for his daughter, Margot.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Intolerance
Overview: A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-11-11
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Narciso - Dietro ai cannoni, davanti ai muli
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-11-16
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The Last Man on Earth
Overview: The story of the latest week on the earth before the announce of the landing of an extraterrestrial society on earth seen by the eyes of a misogynist man with only the desire solitude and routine.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Seven Acts of Mercy
Overview: Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a plan to get herself out of her predicament. To carry it through she bumps into Antonio, a sick and mysterious old man. The clash between the two of them is unavoidable and harsh, and leads to unforeseeable consequences…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-20
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Secret Journey
Overview: After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-20
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Marianna Ucrìa
Overview: In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Il rosso e il blu
Overview: The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Overview: The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-28
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Traces of an Amorous Life
Overview: What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-13
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Il mnemonista
Overview: First violin in the orchestra of a big city, S. has an extraordinary memory, which leads him to remember every detail of what falls under his attention. When he realizes that he can no longer read a score, because the notes before his eyes explode into moving and colorful points, he decides to contact Professor L., an internationally renowned psychologist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-08-24
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Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
Overview: A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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The Vanishing of Pato
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-02-24
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Triumph and Ruins
Overview: History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-05-19
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Morel's Invention
Overview: A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Blood of My Blood
Overview: Northern Italy, 17th century. In a monastery, a nun accused of witchcraft tries to seduce a young confessor who refuses to yield to his searing temptation.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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La balena di Rossellini
Overview: La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conceived, but never realized, by Rossellini took shape in his notes after a trip to Chile conducted in May of 1971, a trip made to conduct an interview-portrait of Salvador Allende, then actually carried out by the director of "Rome, Open City". October 28, 1971: Rossellini, back from Santiago, Chile, reads a newspaper reports of a beached whale on the Pacific coast near a poor village inhabited by fishermen. From this simple news comes a film script for a fable about wealth and poverty. A film whose shooting Rossellini would have been entrusted to the young student Claudio Bondì, just graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-04-26
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Io, Arlecchino
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Milestones
Overview: Following the death of their best friend, four guys and the dead men's sister steal his body and burn it on a beach in Italy to fulfill his last wish.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-21
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Behind the White Glasses
Overview: It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
Overview: The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-29
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The Butterfly's Dream
Overview: This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a young classical actor's decision to stop talking. No one knows why Massimo has vowed to stop talking. Other than speaking dialog from classical plays, Massimo refuses to say a single word. His father, a classic-literature professor believes it reflects to a disappointing love affair. His new girlfriend thinks Massimo is rebelling against his mother, a poet. A director learns of Massimo and commissions his mother to write a play about him. Though Massimo plays himself in the play, and does speak, he returns to silence when the play is finished.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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The Body of the Soul
Overview: Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. He is a writer who lives alone without any children, and is an antisocial person. However, he is as satisfied with his life. Although he has not been working for a while, a film director asks him to prepare a scenario on the life of "Teresa of Ávila". Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, Luana starts working with him as a maid. Now the time has come for an affair which he has ignored for some years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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There's No Religion Anymore
Overview: Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-12-07
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Love and Anarchy
Overview: Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Dormant Beauty
Overview: A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia
Overview: A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region (Italy), stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious manuscript attributed to the great American horror writer died in 1937.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-03-27
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The Persians
Overview: An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-30
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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L'ultima lezione
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Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-06-01
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Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera
Overview: A documentary about the making of "Buongiorno, notte" and the films and politics of director Marco Bellocchio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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In nome del popolo sovrano
Overview: 1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Overview: A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Indro - L'uomo che scriveva sull'acqua
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-07-22
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La valigia
Overview: Secluded from the rest of the world in a bare and anonymous room, an old man recalls the most important moments of his life thanks to the memories contained in a mysterious suitcase.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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The Great Beauty
Overview: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-05-21
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Nero
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-05-28
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Magical Nights
Overview: Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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Alla fine della notte
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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The Voyage Home
Overview: De Reditu takes place in 415 AD- five years after the devestating sack of Rome by the Visigoths- and tells the true story of Claudio Rutilio Namaziano, the last great pagan poet of a declining Roman Empire. A nobleman frustrated by the dominance of Christianity (which he blames for Rome's troubles) and a failed love affair, Claudio embarks on a sea journey to his native Gaul in order to raise an army and bring glory back to the Empire.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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The Ideal City
Overview: Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-11
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Quartet
Overview: The film begins on New Year’s Eve 2001 when Angelica attempts suicide by somewhat theatrically cutting her wrists in the bath. Over the weeks that follow we learn all about the complexities of her life and her three best friends, the quartet of the title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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The Mask
Overview: A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more successful. But the mask cannot conceal the evil in his soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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Seven Beauties
Overview: Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-20
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The Names of Mr. Sulcic
Overview: When Irena Ruppel, a fascinating Slovenian woman, arrives in a valley of the Po river, she is hosted by a man of that area, Gabriele. She seems to know a lot about Gabriele, whom at the same time is intrigued by this woman who doesn't speak Italian but she seems to understand everything that happens around her. Once she leaves, she gives a weak clue to Gabriele: her name and Tolmin, the name of a locality at the borders between Italy and Slovenia. Gabriele can't help it and goes to look for her, taking a journey that will bring him to the truth about his parents, himself and this woman who threw his calm life into confusion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-02-07
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Citizens of the World
Overview: Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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Loro
Overview: Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Prophecy - The Africa of Pasolini
Overview: Pasolini seeks in Africa the peasant and revolutionary authenticity he had sought in the Roman villages. This hope will end in a new disappointment: Africa is a reservoir of irremediable contradictions that will explode in the massacres of yesterday and today. It is an Africa that starts from the outskirts of Rome, but thousands of non-EU citizens flock to the sub-proletariat of the villages.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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Pizza Boy
Overview: The night misadventures of Saba, a Georgian pizza holder, harnessed by a drifting humanity while his wife is about to give birth to their firstborn.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-07-08
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All Human Rights for All
Overview: Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-01
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The Hidden Child
Overview: Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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Le intermittenze del cuore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-04
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Miracle of Marcellino
Overview: In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-19
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Tellurica - Racconti dal cratere
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-05-20
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Journey into the Twilight
Overview: A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Primula Rossa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-05-30
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Les Démons de Jésus
Overview: Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Leonora addio
Overview: A tale of the three funerals for the ashes of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello intertwined with a murder committed by a young Sicilian immigrant boy in 1930s Brooklyn for what is described as a surreal, grotesque, complex narrative.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-02-17
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