Giulio Brogi

Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 -- or so says Draifa (his mistress), the town statue, and everyone in town. As the son untangles the web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web. (imdb)

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for. (imdb)

Rocha's denunciation of European colonialism in Africa (filmreference.com)

In a prehistoric age, a group of men called "Scorpionids" are forced to flee their homeland, destroyed by a volcanic eruption. They land on an island of peaceful farmers, but soon learn that these also live in the shadow of pending destruction by an even more powerful volcano. Instead of accepting another ship so they may proceed on their journey, the visitors try to convince the inhabitants to leave the threatened island. The young ones agree, but the elders prefer their home.

Gangster'70 takes elements from John Hustons The Asphalt Jungle and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and combines them into a brutal and at times sadistic heist story. It is mainly watchable for the wardrobe, the set design, the quirky camera angles and the new age editing. The heist is interesting as the gangsters force a passenger plane to make an unscheduled stop in Rome by the means of a fake bomb... (imdb comments)

A dejected, worn-out, ill-kempt man spends an inordinate amount of time observing what appear to be well-dressed 1920s high-society types moving in and around a library set in the middle of an otherwise deserted island. Eventually, an irritating explanation for this situation is paired with an improbable one. (Clarke Fountain)

Luciano, a young Italian literature teacher living in the provinces, supplements his income by ghost writing for a famous, but dried up, novelist. One day Minister Botero summons him to Rome to write his speeches and communiqués. Luciano accepts. His initial delight in privileges granted to members of the Minister's entourage soon turns into disillusionment. (festival-cannes.fr)

Set in the mountains of Northern Italy around the turn of the century. Colonel Proco, a retired military man, has inherited a magical forest which he intends to manage until his young nephew comes of age. The only condition is that he must respect the Old Woods and the trees which are inhabited by genies, but Proco plans to cut down the trees and sell the wood. (bfi)

Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell. (imdb)

Historical drama that deals with Carlo Pisacane's revolutionary campaign in southern Italy during the Risorgimento. (imdb)

An atheist and a believer in a house comparing notes on the fundamental questions that no one can escape and to which no one can give a definitive answer. (imdb)

In Naples in the second half of the sixteenth century the writer and philosopher Tommaso Campanella lived in a hostile and dangerous climate due to the rise of the Counter-Reformation in Italy after the Council of Trent in 1545.