Wine Cliffs(2009)
Ermanno Olmi has returned to documentary filmmaking and makes a journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.
Ermanno Olmi has returned to documentary filmmaking and makes a journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.
Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.
Der Film erzählt die erste Hälfte des Buches Genesis. Es beginnt mit der Schöpfungsgeschichte und der Vertreibung Adams und Evas aus dem Garten Eden. Kain erschlägt seinen Bruder Abel. Die Arche Noah bewahrt Noah vor der Sintflut. Abraham zieht nach Kanaan, wo der gläubige Mann beinahe seinen Sohn Isaak opfern muss.
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Polycarp, and falls in love with her. Polycarp sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
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Ein Handelsvertreter, dessen Frau von erlesener Eifersucht ist, trifft während einer Reise ein Bauernmädchen, das von einem Verführer ein Kind erwartet und sich nicht mehr nach Hause traut. Vorübergehend fungiert er als Ehemann, um die Eltern der jungen Frau zu besänftigen. Als diese sich als liebenswerte Menschen herausstellen, denkt er an seine Ehehölle zurück und möchte seine neue Rolle gar nicht abgeben. Schließlich aber führt er eine allgemeine Versöhnung herbei und kehrt zu seiner Frau zurück.
Leo Tolstois literarisches Meisterwerk wird in diesem epischen Film-Klassiker zum Leben erweckt. Einige der größten Schauspieler aus Hollywoods Glanzzeit sind hier in den Hauptrollen zu bewundern: Audrey Hepburn (Natascha), Henry Fonda (Pierre) und Mel Ferrer (Prinz Andrei). Krieg und Frieden ist ein beeindruckendes, Oscar-nominiertes Drama über die Verwicklungen des Krieges, spektakuläre Abenteuer, fesselnde Intrigen und tragische Liebe – und das alles vor dem mitreißenden Hintergrund von Napoleons Russland-Feldzug.
Das von Haß und Liebe bestimmte Verhältnis einer Arbeiterin zu einem Schmuggler, der erst am Grabe des Kindes tränenreich Reue zeigt.
A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him.
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Eine gelangweilte Frau kann sich an das bürgerlich-eintönige Leben an der Seite ihres unaufmerksamen Mannes nicht gewöhnen. Sie fällt durch einen Seitensprung in die Hände einer Erpresserin, bis sie nach schweren seelischen Qualen wieder zurückfindet.
Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.
The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
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Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...
A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime crimes.
The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.
Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
In High Places is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Adriana Benetti, Massimo Serato and Nerio Bernardi. It is based on a play by Jean Anouilh. The film portrays the rise into high society of an immoral young man.
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...