Silvana De Santis
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Department: Acting
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The Family
Overview: "The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-20
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Il grande Blek
Overview: Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Tickets
Overview: A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-03-25
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The Young Casanova
Overview: Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo Casanova races through life with irrepressible energy. Violinist, writer, soldier, spy, gambler, adventurer - it is as a lover that he unbridles the full force of his energy. A charmer and seducer, he, too, is charmed by the beauty of women, seduced by their passion, intrigued by their mystery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
Overview: The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-05-28
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The Wasp and the Queen
Overview: A gay man and a lesbian, both having reasons to try going straight, end up as a couple!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-03-01
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Asini
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-11-11
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Notte italiana
Overview: Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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Wordless
Overview: Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-06-22
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L'estate di Davide
Overview: At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the course of a summer while hanging out with Bosnian drug dealer Alem and Patrizia, an older woman who's an addict.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-08-09
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Bits & Pieces
Overview: Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Una casa nel cuore
Overview: When a man disappears and leaves a daughter and mother in heavy debt they have to live on a houseboat to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-04-06
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Il prete bello
Overview: In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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