Based on the novel by Italo Svevo. Emilio Brentani, a writer from Trieste who is going through a creative crisis, lives with his sister Amalia. Weary of the monotony of his life, he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful, young Angiolina. The difference in age and character results in their constant bickering…
The film deals with the hard life of the peasant families in the Friuli in the 1930s, through the eyes of Checo, a young shepherd boy who is constantly mocked by his classmates who nickname him ‘scarecrow’, because of his appearance. An isolated, poor and depressed land, Friuli views its condition as a value, not…
During the First World War, after the defeat at Caporetto, a soldier called Tarasconi captures an Austrian general. Aided by the young Ada, a local peasant, he decides to take him to his superiors to get a gold medal and the prize of 1000 lire. An unlikely friendship develops between the three of them.
The…
Pasolini's film is based on the tragedy by Euripides in which the barbarian queen Medea of Colchis is abandoned by Jason. Blinded by jealousy, the queen resorts to magic to kill her two children and Glauce, her rival in love. Pasolini thus proposes the idea of conflict between the modern world, dominated by rationality, and…
Gustav von Aschenbach, a fifty-year-old musician, arrives from Munich to Venice Lido for a holiday. There he meets the young Tadzio, a teenager with beautiful features, a beauty which he is strongly attracted by. To suppress his feelings and the disappointing hospitality of Venice, he goes back to Munich, but a mistake in sending his…
In 1901 Vito Andolini, a young Sicilian boy, reached the U.S.A. where he takes the name of Vito Corleone, by mistake. In a short time, he builds up an empire founded on gambling and prostitution in Little Italy, New York. His son, Michael, becomes the new Godfather, but his power leads to his isolation.
Trieste…
Primo Baffo (First Mustache), an overworked cabaret singer, is sent to the front in spite of having done everything possible to be rejected for military service. The first day, after a few kilometers, he meets a girl - Marianna – who, with the help of an accomplice, Tomo Secondo, robs him of his clothes and…
Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno, inspired by the story of Giulio Cesare Croce is a comedy with colorful tones. It tells the story of Bertoldo and his son Bertoldino living in the Veronese court of Alboino. It is a comedy in costume embellished with unpredictable and bizarre language.
Monicelli filmed the outdoor scenes of the castle…
In the movie ‘007 The Living Daylights’, the fifteenth in the series, the secret agent James Bond is sent to a country in Eastern Europe to aid the escape of the Russian General Georgi Koskov. Arriving in Bratislava, he also has to deal with a young cellist and finds that Koskov is actually a dealer…
The Confessions of Zeno is a TV movie based on the novel by Italo Svevo. True to the novel, it analyzes the psychology of Zeno Cosini, who is ‘sick’ and unfit to live. Through multiple attempts, Zeno seeks the path of healing, only to get the opposite effect.
Shot entirely in Trieste, the birthplace of…
During the Second World War, a young Hungarian pilot is found disfigured by burns. He remembers neither his name nor his past. For everyone he is the English Patient. He is looked after by Hana, a young French-Canadian nurse, in an old ruined monastery where everything is to acquire a meaning and a name.
In…
Olga, an elderly woman, lives with her husband Ernesto, her daughter Ilaria and her granddaughter Marta. Born and raised on the Karst, she has a life of suffering and family dramas. She writes a letter to her granddaughter in America, tracing her life, describing her feelings and telling some secrets.
Cristina Comencini chose Trieste and…
