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September 1, 2015

1860 (1934)English Translation: Gesuzza the Garibaldian Wife

Run Time: 72 min.The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the

risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians,

differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type.

8 ½English translation: N/A

Run Time: 138 min.Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get

a moment's peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to recall major happenings in his life, and all the women he

has loved and left. An autobiographical film of Fellini, about the trials and tribulations of filmmaking.

AccatoneEnglish translation: Accatone: The Scrounger

Run time: 116 minA pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life

spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

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September 1, 2015

AidaRun time: 160 Minutes

Verdi wrote AIDA in response to a request by the Khedive of Egypt for an opera with authentic Egyptian flavor to open the Cairo Opera House in

1871. It is an ideal setting for the magnificent spectacle of the opera, which combines so consummately with the drama of human emotion, played out in Radames’ love for the slave girl Aida and the jealousy of

Amneris, daughter of the Egyptian king.

Alfredo, AlfredoEnglish Translation: N/A

Run Time: 97 min.Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful

Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Allarmi Siam FascistiRun time: 113 Minutes

In a span exhibition that runs from the beginning of the twentieth century to the events in Genoa and Rome in 1960, the causes of fascism near and far, the support of the agrarian and industrial capitalism, the ramifications

in various European countries, the co-responsibility, the collusion, and the errors of their opponents are presented.

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September 1, 2015

Allegro Fantasma, L’ (1941)English Translation: N/A

Run Time: 75 min.A wealthy man, who is dying, decides that his last will much include

his children he had from an illegitimate relationship with a circus horsewoman. The notary succeeds in identifying one of his children, who is a vagabond. The situation, however, is complicated; there also

exists twins. The first is a songwriter of famous hit songs, and the second is a juggler in the circus. After a series of mishaps and

disputes, the three come to an agreement of a fair distribution of assets and patrimony between all the heirs.

Amarcord (1973)English Translation: N/A

Run Time: 127 min.A year in the life of a small Italian coastal town in the nineteen-thirties, as is recalled by a director with a superstar's access to the resources of the Italian film industry and a piper's command over our imaginations.

Un Americano a Roma (1954)English Translation: An American in Rome

Run Time: 85 min.Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early '50s Roma. He is

completely crazy for everything that comes from the States.

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Anno UnoEnglish Translation: Year One

Run Time: 118 min.The film recounts the life and career of postwar Italian Christian

Democrat political leader.

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September 1, 2015

America, L’English Translation: N/A

Run Time: 116 min.Gino and Fiore are Italian racketeers who come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge and choose Spiro Tozaj, an old man in prison, who turns out to be

an Italian veteran from World War II. Easily confused and utterly impoverished, this elderly former political prisoner seems the perfect

choice, until he unexpectedly disappears.

The Agony and the EcstasyEnglish Translation: In English

Run Time: 138 min.Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the

battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.

Arlecchino Servitore De Due PadroniRun time: 124 Minutes

Beatrice, a woman who has traveled to Venice disguised as her dead brother in search of the man who killed him, Florindo, who is also her

lover. Her brother forbade her to marry Florindo, and died defending his sister's honor. Beatrice disguises herself as Federigo, (her dead brother), so that he can collect dowry money from Pantaloon (also spelled Pantalone),

the father of Clarice, her brother's betrothed.

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September 1, 2015

Assunta SpinaEnglish Translation: The Last Diva

Run Time: 62 min.Assunta Spina, a silent film, is a tragedy set in Naples at the

beginning of the twentieth century. Assunta and Michele are in love but others come between them. After finding himself interwined in a battle, Michele is sent to prison for two years. Nevertheless, Assunta,

still madly in love with Michele, agrees to become Federigo’s mistress only if he agrees to help her in freeing Michele. Michele is released early from prison and finds Assunta with Federigo. He goes

mad and kills Federigo. When the police arrive, Assunta takes the blame for Michele’s crime.

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September 1, 2015

BaarìaEnglish Translation: N/A

Run Time: 150 min.An autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian

village of Bagheria where Tornatore was born.

Baci e AbbracciEnlgish Translation: English Subtitles

Run Time: 105 min.Mario, a local restaurateur with Salerno in Casale Maritime, recently

failed, and is mistaken for inspector of the region by a group of former workers who have implanted in a farmhouse an ostrich farm and

waiting, the Region of course, funding. and so on.

Bambini ci GuardanoEnglish Translation: The Children Are Watching Us

Run Time: 84 min.A devastating portrait of the destruction of innocence. The Children Are Watching Us, records the unintentional cruelties that shatter a

four-year-old boy’s vulnerable world.

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September 1, 2015

Bandito, Il (1946)English Translation: The Bandit

Run Time: 87 min.A 1946 Italian comedy-film about a group of small-time thieves and ne’er-do-wells who bungle an attempt to burglarize a state-

run pawnshop called Monte di Peità in Rome. Macello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Carlo

Pisacane and Tiberio Murgia play the main roles.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1938)English Translation: The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Il

Barbiere di SivigliaRun Time: 93 min.

The most personality of any Barbiere; no film or telecast since has come close. The voices are all at their peaks. The camera never

leaves the singers.

Bella Addormentata nel Bosco, LaEnglish Translation: Sleeping Beauty

Run time: 72 min.Adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name. Princess Aurora is

cursed by the evil witch Maleficent – who declares that before Aurora reaches her 16th birthday she will die by pricking her finger on the

spindle of a spinning wheel. To try to prevent this, the king places her into hiding, in the care of three goo-natured, – but not too bright –

fairies.

Berlitz Video: Italian For TravellersRun Time: 90 Minutes

Berlitz Video for Travellers combines computer graphics with live action and freeze frames to produce a new and exciting interactive language learning system. Now you can make your trip more meaningful, more

interesting and more fun.

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September 1, 2015

La Bestia Nel Cuore (Don’t Tell)Run time: 120 Minutes

Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she

discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try

to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free

herself from her "beast inside the heart".

Birth of the RenaissanceRun time: 58 Minutes

The beginning of the Renaissance in Italy was like a great light going on. In this program, the camera travels to Florence, Siena, Pisa, Mantua, and Padua to discover Renaissance masterpieces in these cities. We see the

paintings, the sculptures, the cathedrals by these masters – Alberti, Brunelleschi, Luca della Robbia, Donatello, Michelozzo, Lorenzetti,

Martini, Giotto, and Masaccio.

La BohemeEnglish Translation: Subtitles

Run time: 111 min.In 1830s Paris four artys types shiver in a garret, owing rent but

when one of their number, musician Schaunard, earns money they are all set to buy a meal in a nearby restaurant.

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September 1, 2015

Il BoomRun time: 85 min.

During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for

his family.

Un Borghese Piccolo PiccoloEnglish Translation: N/A

Run time: 115 min.When his only son is killed in an armed robbery, a meek

middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Buongiorno, Notte (2003)English Translation: Good Morning, Night

Run time: 105 min.The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the

perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

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September 1, 2015

C’era una Volta il WestEnglish translation: Once Upon a Time in the West

Run time: 175 min.Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow

from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

C’eravamo tanto amatiEnglish Translation: We All Loved Each Other So Much

Run time: 124 min.Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while

fighting the Nazis. After the war ends, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a story of the life of these three idealists and how

they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.

Cabiria (1914)English Translation: N/A

Run time: 123 min.In this silent film, during the Punic Wars in the third century B.C. the little girl Cabiria, and her nurse Croessa, are abducted during the confusion caused by the eruption of Mount Etna. Cabiria is

sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in the temple of Moloch. Fulvio Axilla, a Roman spy, and his slave, Maciste, rescues her and she ends up in the care of Queen Sophonisba. Ten years later, after

many wars and alliances, Carthage falls to the Romans and Cabiria returns home with Fulvio.

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September 1, 2015

Caccia Tragica (1947)English Translation: The Tragic Hunt

Run time: 80 min.After World War II in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, a cooperative has been founded by the peasants. War has destroyed the country. A group of

bandits, with former nazi-collaborator Daniela, known as Lili Marlene, holds up the truck where the money of the cooperative is traveling. All the peasants search for the thieves in a tragic hunt.

Cagliari: La Capital del SoleRun time: 25 min.

The Bay of Angels, the "capital " of Sardinia reflects its hills on a sea always been a crossroads of cultures more desperate. Works of art, beaches, traditions of a vibrant enterprise and economy that draw

inspiration from its importance as a commercial center and clearinghouse of tourist traffic.

Caiiman, LeEnglish Translation: The Caiman

Run Time: 112 min.Summary: A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio

Berlusconi.

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Il Capital UmanoEnglish Translation: The Human Capital

Run Time: 106 MinutesThe destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after

a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve

Caravaggio e il BaroqueRun time. 53 min.

Caravaggio, Correffio, Lotto, Parmigianino, Tintoretto – new masters find new, often deeply emotional, directions in art as the High

Renaissance gives way to the Baroque. In Venice we see the architect Sansovino’s design for St. Mark Square as we know it today while

Palladio brings the country villa into being. In Rime, architects Bernini and Barromini re-recreate the cry from graceful fountains to St. Peters’.

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September 1, 2015

Caro DiarioRun time: 100 min.

Along with his TV addicted friends, Moretti hops on a boat that takes them to the mystical, secluded islands of the blue Mediterranean.

Querying everyone they meet, they soon discover that the journey of life itself is the answer … or is it the question … or is it both?

Casanova ’70 **Run Time: 102 min.

Summary: The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful

women in life-threatening situations.

Il Caso MoroRun Time: 112 min.

On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault. Moro was not only the victim of the brigadists but

also of the struggle for power between the Italian parties.

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September 1, 2015

CateneEnglish Translation: Chains

Run Time: 90 min.Peter and Rosa have been married for several years and love each other; their house is enlivened by the presence of two little sons.

One day, Rose meets a former boyfriend, who, many years before left without informing Rose. He attempts to seduce Rose, but she

refuses. After being set up, Peter arrives to the meeting place

Cavalleria RusticanaEnglish Translation: Fatal Desire

Run Time: 70 min.Early on Easter morning, Turiddu sings about his former beloved,

Lola, now the wife of a wine carter, Alfio. As the town stirs, Santuzza, Turiddu's neglected sweetheart, comes looking for the

handsome youth at the tavern of his mother, Lucia.

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September 1, 2015

Cenerentola, LaEnglish Translation: Cinderella

Run Time: 164 min.When Cinderella’s cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the

Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.

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Cento Passi, IEnglish Translation: 100 Steps

Run Time: 114 min.The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing

activist that in the late seventies repeatedly denounced Badalamenti crimes and the whole Mafia system using a small local radio

station, with the arm of irony. In 1978, Peppino was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide,

but his friends never accepted this thesis.

Cesare Deve MorireEnglish TranslationRun Time: 74 min.

In Rebibbia Prison in Italy, its inmate theatre program puts on a well received production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

The film goes back several months earlier as the coordinators announces the play as the program's production of the year.

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September 1, 2015

Ciao, Professore!English Translation: Hello, Professor!

Run Time: 93 min.Marco Sperelli is a teacher, he is divorced and his is sent to work in Corzano, a town near Naples. A life in which only

power and violence are worth respecting, Sperelli tries to teach something different but he gets their respect only by slapping a

student.

CicloneEnglish Translation: The Cyclone

Run Time: 97 min.Living a dull life in Tuscany, Levante has no idea that soon enough a bus full of six Spanish flamenco dancers will soon twist the dull

life he has lived in.

Cielo Cade, IlEnglish Translation: The Sky is Falling

Run Time: 102 min.The weight of the world in on the shoulders of Penny, a 10 year-old orphan, and who must watch over her little sister when they go live

with their uncle and aunt. Penny, a catholic, worries about her Jewish uncle. He can be stern at times, but he is devoted to his family. After

the Allied forces land in Sicily and the Germans begin to retreat, Penny starts to worry about her uncle’s life.

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September 1, 2015

Cinema ParadisoEnglish Translation: Cinema Paradise

Run Time: 174 min.Told in a flashback, the film tells the story of the return to his native

Sicilian villages of a successful film director Salvatore for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo, who was the projectionist at the local

“Cineman Paradiso.” Ultimately, Alfredo serves as a wise father figure to his young friend who only wishes the best to see him succeed, even

if it means breaking his heart in the process.

Ciociara, LaEnglish Translation: Two Women

Run Time: 129 min.Set in battle scarred, wartime Italy, Sophia Loren plays a young widow

struggling to survive with her teenage daughter. Both women share romantic feelings toward a young man at the beginning of the film;

however, this conflict is disrupted by the violence of WWII. When a tragedy occurs, the two women are

Come Te Nessuno MaiEnglish Translation: But Forever In My Mind

Run Time: 88 min.Silvio has no interest in the student-rebellion taking place at his

high school. His fascination lies with Valentina, the prettiest girl in the school, however, Valentina already has a jealous boyfriend,

Martino. After Silvio finally has a moment alone with Valentina, he makes the mistake of telling his gossipy best friend, Ponzi. By the end of the day the entire school knows about the kiss, including a very angry Martino and Claudia, a young classmate who has a big

crush on Silvio.

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September 1, 2015

Concerto di NataleEnglish Translation: Christmas Concert

Run Time: 80 min.Concerto di Natale is the first of a concert series commissioned by

Pope John Paul II and the Vatican for the Celebration of the Jubelium 2000. Jose Carerras performs along with the Dell’

Emiglia Romagna Symphonic Orchestra.

Conformista, IlEnglish Translation: The Confromis

Run Time: 111 min.A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad

to arrange the assassination of his older teacher, now a political dissident.

Corona di Ferro, LaEnglish Translation: The Iron Crown

Run Time: 92 min.A crown, supposedly made from a nail out of the Cross of

Christ and the metal of Roman swords, becomes a legend and a symbol of justice.

Costruzione dello stato totalitario, LaEnglish translation: The Construction of the Totalitarian

Italian StateRun time: 30 minutes

The history of Italy in the 20th century is narrated in this film by Valerio Renzo and directed by Folco Quilici.

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September 1, 2015

Cristo si e fermato a EboliEnglish Translation: Christ Stopped at Eboli

Run Time: 145 min.In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a

remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.

CumaeEnglish Translation: In English

Run Time: 41 min.The history and archelology of Cumae and its surrounding territory.

Cuore Altrove, IllEnglish Translation: The Heart is Elsewhere

Run Time: 107 min.A sensitive film on relationships, romance, love and heartache.

Set in a beautiful Italian environment, the film compares selfishness with self-sacrifice and adjustment.

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September 1, 2015

Dangerous BeautyEnglish Translation: In English

Run Time: 112 min.In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges:

dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco

Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan.

DecameronRun time: 111 min.

The Decameron is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel Il Decameron by Giovanni

Boccaccio. It is the first movie of Pasolini's Trilogy of life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.

Del Monaco: Il Vulcano CantandoEnglish translation: Del Monaco: The Singing Volcano

Run time: 37 min.What gives Del Monaco’s sound its elemental excitement? Ring, ping, what the Italian’s call “squillo.” The following have squillo:

Bergamaschi, Cerquetti and Christoff,

Divo, IlEnglish Translation: The Divo

Run Time: 110 min.The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times before the

restoration of democracy.

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September 1, 2015

Divorzio all’italianaEnglish Translation: Divorce Italian Style

Run Time: 104 min.A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with illegal divorce he must concoct a crime of passion to do

away with his wife.

Dolce Vita, LaEnglish Translation: The Sweet Life

Run Time: 174 min.A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering

paparazzo journalist living in Rome.

Don CamilloEnglish Translation: Mr. Camillo

Run Time: 109 min.In a village of the Po Valley, where the earth is hard and life is

miserable, a priest and a communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. Though in secret they admire each other.

Politics separate both the country and the two men.

Don CarloRun time: 213 min.

Metropolitan opera orchestra and chorus

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Don GiovanniEnglish Translation: Mr. Giovanni

Run Time: 176 min.Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni

one last chance to repent for his multitudinious improprieties.

Famiglia, LaEnglish Translation: The Family!

Run Time: 120 min.Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906,

where his grandfathers reminds his father that Carlo means “free man,” to his 80th birthday party. The film principally

explores his relationship with younger brother Guilio, with wife Beatrice, and with her sister Adriana, whom Carlo loved as a

young man.

Fati Ignoranti, IEnglish Translation: His Secret Life

Run Time: 106 min.AIDS doctor Antonia’s husband is killed in a car crash. Following

her newly born curiosity for life, she does to see her husband’s lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with

gay and transgendered friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute.

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September 1, 2015

Ferdinando e CarolinaEnglish Translation: Ferdinando and Carolina

Run Time: 108 min.Summary: On his deathbed in the 1820’s, King Ferdinando I of Naples tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by

remembering his younger days. After he was obligated to marry Mary Caroline of Austria, daughter of Empress Mary

Theresa, unexpectedly they fall in love, but are later forced to separate.

Finestra di Fronte, LaEnglish Translation: Facing Windows

Run Time: 106 min.Overburden and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to

caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on life, she turns to the man who lives

across from her.

Florence a Portrait of a CityRun time: 55 min.

This 55 min tour is a beautiful introduction to Florence as well as a valuable and interesting guide for those already familiar

with the city.

Francesca & NunziataRun Time: 120 Min.

At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman named Francesca, adopts a poor little girl named

Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love with Federico, her adoptive brother and Francesca’s son.

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September 1, 2015

Gattopardo, IlEnglish Translation: The Leopard

Run Time: 190 min.The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social

upheavals of 1860’s Sicily.

Gassman legge Dante, Parts 1-3Run time: 3 parts

This three-part series explores a classic work of Dante, La Divina Commedia.

Generale Della Rovere, IlEnglish Translation: The Oak General

Run Time: 132 min.Victorio Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and

coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

Germania Anno ZeroEnglish Translation: Germany Year Zero

Run Time: 71 min.In 1947, an ordinary German family fights to survive in a wrecked

Berlin after the World War II. When Edmund, a young boy, meets his former teacher, he misunderstands his Nazi speech about the survival

of the stronger and leads the hopeless boy to a desperate final solution.

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September 1, 2015

The Garden of the Finzi-ContinisRun Time: 90 min.

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are one of the leading families. They are wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are

also Jewish.

Ginger e FredEnglish Translation: Ginger and Fred

Run Time: 128 min.Masina and Mastroianni play ex-dancers Ginger and Fred. Forty

years ago they made their living imitating the incomparable graceful Rogers and Astaire in Italian dance halls. Now, thirty years later, they are reunited for a nostalgic TV variety show,

part of a bizarre cast that includes dwarfs, transvestites,

Giordano BrunoEnglish translation: Giordano Bruno

Run time: 115 minThe film chronicles the last years of life of the philosopher

Giordano Bruno from 1592 to his killing in 1600.

Giornata Particolare, UnaEnglish translation: A Particular Day

Run time: 110 min.Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit in Italy in 1938.

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Il Giovane FavolosoEnglish Translation: The Fabulous Young

Run Time: 137 min.Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacamo

Leopardi.

GomorrahEnglish Translation: N/A

Run Time: 137 min.An inside look at Italy’s modern-day crime families.

La Grande BellezzaEnglish Translation: The Grand Beauty

Run time: 135 min.The main character is an aging socialite, Jep Gambardella, who once wrote a famous novel in his twenties, only to retire into a comfortable

life writing cultural columns and throwing parties in Rome. During his luxurious life in Rome, he is surrounded by many influential

people including politicians, members of the mafia, noblemen, artists and intellectuals with whom he shares only surface level

relationships.

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Grande Guerra, LaEnglish Translation: The Great War

Run Time: 118 min.Giovanni Busacca and Oreste Jacovacci, two small-time wheeler

dealers from Milan and Rome respectively, find themselves thrown into grudging camaraderie on the frontline trenches of the

First World War.

Grandi Magazzini, IEnglish translation: The Department Store

Run time: 85 min.Several customers parade departments and speakers with some curious stories. The director of the beautiful shopping center is a

depressed man, but he is forced to smile and pretends to be optimistic with his business; an overseer naive fails to stop a gang

of thieves, although the man feels himself bully and reliable; an actor depressed and alcoholic does not know whether to abandon

his stage career to risursi acting in squalid advertising.

Hands Over the CityMani Sulla Citta, Le

English Translation: Hands Over the CityRun Time: 101 min.

A ruthless Neapolitan land developer and elected city councilman, Edoardo Nottola, manages to use political power to make personal profit in a large scale suburban real estate deal. However, after the collapse of a residential building, the Communist councilman Da Vita initiates an inquiry on Nottola’s possible connection to the

city.

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September 1, 2015

The Hawks and the SparrowsItalian Translation: Uccellacci e Uccellinii

Run time: 88 min.On an empty road, an old man is walking with his son. They

meet a crow that can speak. They are changed into monks and Saint Francois sent them to preach for hawks and sparrows.

Henry IVEnglish Translation: N/A

Run Time: 95 min.Marcello Mastroianni stars a modern aristocrat who begins a life of fabrication and fantasy after he falls from a horse. Now believing

himself to be Henry IV, Emperor of the Roman Empire. A series of friends join him, reveling in his fantasy as they all dress in costumes

and assume the roles of historical figures. When friends of Henry arrive to cure him, they realize that his insanity may not be able to be

separated from his happiness.

Ieri, Oggi, DomaniEnglish Translation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Run Time: 120 min.Ieri, Oggi, Domani is a 1963 comedy anthology film by Italian

director Vittorio de Sica. It stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film consists of three short stories about

couples in different parts of Italy.

Incoronazione De Poppea, L’English Translation:Run Time: 151 min.

One of the first operas to use historical events and people, it describes how Poppaea, mistress of the Roman emperor Nero, is able to

achieve her ambition and be crowned empress.

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September 1, 2015

Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni SospettoEnglish Translation: n/a

Run Time: 112 min.A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for

the crime.

Isola del Ferro e del Fuoco, L'Run time: 98 min.

Mariangela Melato stars as Signora Bolk, a self-made tycoon interested in ecological preservation. She is fed up

with the terrorists who poach Italy’s rich beauty.

It’s All Family – Knock on WoodRun time: 24 mins.

Orlando Furioso is a five foot tall performer living in brooklyn, and is made of wood. Fifty years ago he was carved from oak and given a suit of armor

by Papa Manteo and his children, and yet Orlando’s sword still flashes on stage

Italy ContemporaneaRun time: 90 min.

This exciting, authentic video will enhance any Italian class or labrotory program. It consists of interview with ordinary people speaking italian – among them a farmer,

a mechanic , neaurologist, a journalist, a nurse, and a sectetary.

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September 1, 2015

The Italian AmericansRun time: 242 mins.

Simmers with the vital ingrediants of family, tradition, and amore – the essence of the Italian

American experience. Vintage film footage, famiy, photos, and warm rememberances from celebrities, business leaders, politicians, educators, and many

others.

Italy RevealedRun time: 102 min.

Prepare to meet the world With panoramic high-definition photography and intimate storytelling, Discovery Atlas

shows you a new way to connect with the world.