LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO (The Girl by the Lake)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Andrea Molaioli. Cast: Valerio Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Omero Antonutti, Anna Bonaluto. Italy. 2007 An idyllic mountain town in the Italian dolomites is shocked by the murder of teenager Anna. Her body is found by the lake without any traces of physical violence. […]
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FAME CHIMICA (Chemical Hunger)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Directors: Paolo Vari and Antonio Bocola. Cast: Mimmo Allanprese, Joel Bossi and Andrea Canesi. Italia. 2004 In the southern suburbs of Milan, two friends Claudio and Manuel, who keep meeting each other in the square where they grew up, bring forth two different […]
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A/R ANDATA E RITORNO (Round Trip)
Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin) Director: Marco Ponti. Cast: Kabir Bedi, Libero Di Rienzo, Vanessa Incontrada. Italy. 2004 Dante Cruciani, 25, a resident of Turin, is a bike messenger hard up for cash who decides to borrow some money from a loan shark names Skorpio. Unable to pay […]
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OGGI SPOSI (Just Married)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Luca Lucini. Cast: Luca Argentero, Moran Atias, Carolina Crescentini, Filippo Nigro, Dario Bandiera. Italy. 2009 Four Weddings, a thousand adventures and one goal: to reach the altar and say the auspicious yes. Nicola, a promising cop from Puglia, with a past like that of Don Giovanni, […]
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I CAVALIERI CHE FECERO L’IMPRESA (The Knights of the Quest)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Pupi Avati. Cast: Edward Furlong, Raoul Bova, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi. Italy. 2001 A handful of young knights are given the grave responsibility of rescuing one of the most sacred relics in Christianity. In the year 1272, the bloody swath of the Crusades has swept much […]
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PANE E TULIPANI (Bread and Tulips)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Silvio Soldini. Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania, Marina Massironi, Vitalba Andrea. Italy. 2000 Rosalba, a bored housewife who lives on the Adriatic coast is on a family’s annual holiday. During the visits she is left behind at a rest stop while the tour bus hurries to […]
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LETTERE DAL SAHARA (Letters from Sahara)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Vittorio de Seta. Cast: Djibril Kébé, Paola Aimone Rondo, Marco Baliani, Claudia Muzzi. Italy. 2006 Assane, a young Senegalese interrupts his studies and emigrates to Italy. Shipwrecked on Lampedusa, he is transferred to Sicily. He manages to escape and reach Villa Literno, near Naples, where his […]
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COSÌ È LA VITA – UNA STORIA VERA (Life is like that – a true story)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo e Massimo Venier. Cast: Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania, Francesco Pannofino, Giovanni Caccioppo. Italy. 1998 Aldo is in prison for credit card fraud. When he is taken in a police car to court, he takes his guard hostage and makes his getaway. When […]
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QUANDO SEI NATO NON PUOI PIU’ NASCONDERTI (Once you are born you can no longer hide)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Marco Tullio Giordana. Cast: Alessio Boni, Matteo Gadola, Vlad Alexandru Toma, Ester Hazan. Italy. 2005 Thirteen-year-old Sandro, the only son of a wealthy family, is from Brescia in northern Italy. One night, during a sailing trip in the Mediterranean he accidentally falls overboard, and no one […]
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CRISTO SI E’ FERMATO A EBOLI (Christ stopped at Eboli)
Cinema at the Institute – TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE Director: Francesco Rosi. Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas. Italy. 1979 Carlo Levi was a painter and writer, but he also had a degree in medicine. Arrested in 1935 by Mussolini’s regime for his anti-Fascist activities, he was sent to live […]
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