Italian+(italiano)

Do you want to see beauty? Over a century ago, swarms of videographers traversed Italy far and wide to film landscapes, villages, cities, events, factories, customs and traditions of our country, for the benefit of a whole new category, the cinema viewers of the whole world. With this collection of 61 films, restored by the Cineteca di Bologna and other prestigious archives, we can travel in space and time, touching hundreds of places, from Sicily to the Cervino. Italy as we have never seen it, suspended between the nineteenth century and modernity, in the ancient and rare images that have survived. A Grand Tour, a journey of pleasure, of course, but which also helps us better understand today's Country.
Daniele Furlati at the piano.

In eleven days time, Michael is due to wed his fiancée Helen. However, when he meets Sarah he finds himself unable to resist her.

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

"Teatro alla Scala. The Temple of Wonders is a filmic event dedicated to one of the most exclusive temples of music and world spectacle, a place where art is creating itself, representing itself, living itself. Inaugurated in 1778, the Teatro alla Scala of Milan is the place where the tradition of the great Italian opera is born. The emotions absorbed by the velvet curtains, by the wood of the stage, by the armchairs in front of the orchestra are still alive today and surface every night at the very moment when the light is dimmed, the audience stops chatting and the show begins. Accompanied by the narrative voice of Sandro Lombardi, the video camera travels down the corridors and make us breath 237 years of history: a majestic succession of discoveries and revelations will be a delight for the spectator. It's the story of the only theatre of the world that has captured and tied inextricably to itself the biggest names of the musical sector. Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Arturo …

The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.

Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.

The seventh volume of History of Italy, Dalla caduta del fascismo alla Repubblica, 1943-1946

Jacopo Tintoretto changed the face of Venetian painting. His fast and furious brushwork was likened to a thunderbolt. Combining the rich colors of Titian with the dramatic muscularity of Michelangelo’s figures, Tintoretto covered the walls of his native city with pictures that astounded his contemporaries; Vasari declared him “the most extraordinary brain that the art of painting has ever produced.” This documentary examines Tintoretto’s career with original footage of his works in the churches and palaces of Venice.

The third volume of History of Italy, from the Great War to Fascism

The fourth volume of History of Italy, il regime fascista, 1922-1939