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Actors: Miki Manojlovic, Carolina Crescentini, Roberto Herlitzka, Anita Caprioli, Filippo Timi
Synopsis: One of the greatest writers in Russian literature is forced to take on a task his gift with the pen has not prepared him for in this historical drama. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Miki Manojlovic) is working on his latest novel, The Gambler, with the help of his secretary Anna (Carolina Crescentini) when Read More
Actors: Alessio Boni, Claudia Gerini, Donatella Finocchiaro, Emir Kusturica, Valeria Solarino
Actors: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia, Piergiorgio Bellocchio
Synopsis: A young couple, Chiara (Maya Sansa) and Ernesto (Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, the director's son), follow a real estate agent through a nicely secluded apartment, which they subsequently rent. They then begin doing some strange renovations. It turns out that they're not a couple at all. They're Read More
Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès, Marysa Borini
Synopsis: A wealthy but dysfunctional family teeters on the brink of collapse in this emotional drama leavened with a strong dose of dark comedy. Federica (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) is the daughter of a wealthy Italian business magnate (Roberto Herlitzka) who relocated himself and his family to France in the Read More
Actors: Ennio Fantastichini, Elena Sofia Ricci, Ida Di Benedetto, Ricky Tognazzi, Stefania Orsola Garello
Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Salvatore Piscicelli writes and directs the psychological drama Alla Fine Della Notte (At the End of the Night). Depressed, middle-aged actor/director Bruno Spada (Ennio Fantastichini) goes on a journey in search of happiness. At his home in Rome, his own wronged wife Fiamma (Stefania Orsola Garello Read More
Actors: Roberto Herlitzka, Ignazio Oliva, Chiara Conti, Luciano Federico, Paolo DeVita
Synopsis: Based on a true story, L'Ultima Lezione is a display of the rising unease following the yet unsolved disappearance of Federico Caffe (Roberto Herlitzka), an influential and celebrated professor of Economic Theory for the past 30 years. The 73-year-old mysteriously left his home on April 14, 1987 Read More
Actors: Beatrice Fazi, Anna Ammirati, Maddalena Maggi, Raffaella Ponzo, Valeria Cavalli
Actors: Emma de Caunes, Pierre Berriau, Raphael Kresper, Nicolas Abraham, Bruno Solo
Synopsis: Mille Bornes is a road movie about the friends of the deceased Romain who want to respect his last wishes, which were delivered in the form of a videocassette. Their ordeals involve stealing Romain's corpse from the hospital. They are well aware of the implications of this criminal act, but they Read More
Actors: Emmanuelle Laborit, Roberto Herlitzka, Leopoldo Trieste
Synopsis: Based on an acclaimed, popular historical novel by Dacia Maraini, this 18th-century set costumer follows the adventures of a deaf-mute noblewoman who strives to escape her dark past and the social conventions that force her to remain married to a man she detests. The story begins when the already Read More
Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Marc Barr, Roberto Herlitzka, Margherita Buy
Synopsis: In this French drama, an irresponsible man is forced by circumstances beyond his control to communicate with the family he's kept at a distance. Jean-Paul (Gerard Lanvin) is the manager of a hotel in Nice whose shady business practices have put him seriously into debt; he needs to raise 300,000 Read More
Actors: Thierry Blanc, Simona Cavallari, Bibi Andersson, Roberto Herlitzka, Henry Arnold
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Synopsis: In this evidently experimental, episodic film, moments in the lives of a disparate group of people who love or make love to one another are screened. Some of these scenes are filled with whimsey, others are tragic. In one of them, a girl develops an obsession with the transplant recipient of her Read More
Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Roberto Herlitzka, Michele de Marchi, Alberto Cracco, Valentina Lainati
Synopsis: Released in Italy as La Maschera, The Mask stars Michael Maloney as a debauched nobleman. Maloney offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mark and tries again, and this time is more successful. But the mask cannot conceal the evil in his soul. The Mask Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Yelena Safonova, Pina Cei, Vsevolod Larionov
Synopsis: Oci Ciornie was an international co-production tailored for Marcello Mastroianni. It received good reviews in Italy and France, and Mastroianni was awarded "Best Actor" at the Cannes Film Festival. However, some in Russia felt that director Mikhalkov (who previously received wide acclaim for Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett, Valeria Golino, Nicola Farron, Stefania Sandrelli
Synopsis: In this tragic romance set in Ferrara, Italy in 1938, and at a nearby seaside resort, a wealthy Jewish boy is thwarted in marrying the girl he loves when Mussolini's race laws (enacted to cement the regime's growing alliance with Germany) take effect. Rather than suffer as a Jewess, his intended Read More
Actors: Mariangela Melato, Michele Placido, Roberto Herlitzka, Massimo Wertmuller
Synopsis: Mariangela Melato plays a female industrialist subjected to a kidnapping. Tired of watching her "class" being persecuted, Melato wreaks vengeance by abducting the head kidnapper, Sicilian bandit Michele Placido. She forces the gang to pony up $100,000, but the crooks manage to have the last laugh. Read More
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Piera Degli Esposti, Gastone Moschin, Roberto Herlitzka, Renzo Montagnani
Synopsis: In an irreverent send up of politicians and feminists and others, director and co-writer Lina Wertmuller has a Minister of the Interior locked inside his impermeable luxury car with only his broken computer to keep him company. Unfortunately, this accident happens at the villa of a conservative Read More
Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmuller directs the black comedy Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties). During WWII, Pasqualino Frafuso (Giancarlo Giannini) ends up lost in a dense forest along with fellow army deserter Francesco (Piero De Orio). After they witness a mass execution by German Read More
Actors: Adolfo Celi
Synopsis: Though fitted out with an English-language title, Black Holiday didn't receive much distribution outside its native Italy. Set during the 1930s, the film stars Adolfo Celi as an irrepressible anti-fascist professor. While the Mussolini government tolerates Celi so long as he remains within the Read More
Actors: Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini
Synopsis: Originally released in Italy as Film d'Amore e d'Anarchia, Lina Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy is set in the fascist-dominated Italy of the 1930s. Giancarlo Giannini plays an idealistic farmer swept up in an anti-fascist underground movement. His first task as a member is to assassinate Mussolini Read More
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