Italian+(italiano)

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

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.

"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 …

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.

A Soviet cargo ship carrying medical opium gets attacked by pirates of an unknown nationality. The crew is left to die on a sinking ship but they manage to escape and now must fight the pirates for survival.

A troupe of beautiful young dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister, spooky old castle, not knowing that it is home to a group of vampires.

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring that traffics in women kidnapped from various locales around the world. Her investigations leaves plenty of time, however, for globe-trotting and bed-hopping. As each lead turns up bad, Emanuelle begins to wonder if she can ever put an end to this horrible slavery ring.

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

The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. Maestro Nikolai Masoudov (Tognazzi), a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret (Farmer), are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate (Tadic). The Satan - Woland (Cuny), and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.