Vincenzo, 8 anni, entra in un orfanotrofio (l’Umberto I di Salerno, a quanto riportano gli incartamenti). In piedi, attende che il direttore finisca di compulsare la sua pratica. Poi viene acc...
The old sailor Pietro has one son, the young Schiantacatene who is married to Mary, and a daughter, the beautiful Fiamma. One night, despite the news of an imminent pirate attack, the men decide to go...
Gradeniga, the Doge's widow, lives withdrawn in a palace on the river of the Brenta. In the sunset of an autumn evening she looks, in the grip of a mortal anguish, beyond the gate, waiting for the shi...
Ulysses bids farewell to his family and departs to join the Trojan War. Penelope is left alone behind with their son Telemachus. Ten years later she is grappling with the numerous suitors who are crow...
The life of the parish priest don Giovanni Minzoni is reconstructed from adolescence to adulthood, from pastoral mission to extreme sacrifice. The film visits the places of his youth in his home...
An evening at winter’s end: in Veneto, in the countryside of Treviso (in Zero Branco) the farmers have prepared bonfires for the feast of bread and wine, a propitiatory rite for a good year. T...
An Emilian fairy tale set in the 16th century that tells the love story of a duke’s daughter and a boy.
Cretinetti is about to get married and he could not be any happier and more in love with his Junoesque consort. But just on the day of his wedding, he reads a notice on the wall explaining how to beha...