Luciana Castellina

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era.

Pontecorvo fait partie de ces cinéastes italiens marqués à vie par le néoréalisme. Il déclare avoir décidé de faire du cinéma en sortant d'une séance de "Paisa" de Roberto Rossellini. Le futur cinéaste se trouve alors à Paris, un an après une guerre pendant laquelle il est devenu l'une des figures principales de la résistance italienne et l'un des fondateurs du Front de la jeunesse. Laissant derrière lui son statut de héros de la guerre, Pontecorvo fait ses premières armes de réalisateur avec "Giovanna", un court métrage annonciateur d'une carrière cinématographique consacrée à ce qu'il appelle lui-même la «dictature de la vérité «

February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati likens the event to the fire in the library of Alexandria in Egypt. The brothel is an institution that has spanned the centuries,thru different aspects, different forms. It is an institution that, in Italy, at least officially no longer exists. But it is also an institution that in other countries, still exists. The doc offers a journey that will start from the ruins of Pompeii brothel to get to the lights of Artemis in Berlin, with its soft drinks and its attention to the well-being and to the erotic papyrus from the Egyptian Museum of Turin and the giant Paradise in Girona, that El Pais has called the biggest brothel in Europe.

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.