Cast: Michele Riccardini

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Juan de Landa · Dhia Cristiani

Synopsis "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful young...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Massimo Girotti · Michele Riccardini · Andrea Checchi · Checco Rissone

Synopsis In the Emilia of the immedate postwar period, the life of an agricultural cooperative is threatened by some bandits that act on behalf of a landowner. Mix of actuality and pretense according to the “logic of a cinema of direct...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Raf Vallone · Lucía Bosé · Folco Lulli · Maria Grazia Francia

Synopsis Raf Vallone plays Francesco Dominici, a shepherd and war veteran who returns home to find that his flock of sheep have been stolen by the area thuggish big-shot landlord Agostino Bonfiglio. Francesco decides to steal back what is rightfully his,...

Direction Gianni Vernuccio

Cast Annabella Incontrera · Jeanine Falconi · Michele Riccardini · Loris Gafforio

Synopsis Marco, an impoverished engineering student, hides his wealthy friend Andre at his apartment in a fake kidnaping plot to obtain money from Andre's father, a furniture manufacturer. While the youths await the outcome of their ransom demand, Marco's girl friend,...

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Vittorio Gassman · Gianna Maria Canale · Caterina Boratto

Synopsis Pietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is shattered of course and when after many years...

Direction Ruggero Deodato

Cast Franco Volpi · Eros Pagni · Anna Miserocchi · Luciano Spinelli

Direction Giulio Morelli

Cast Gino Cervi · Franca Marzi · Cesare Danova · Monica Clay

Synopsis Inspired by Giovanni Pascoli's poem. Ruggero (the father of the poet) is killed by a corrupted officer. His body is brought back home by a mare who, several years later, will reveal with its nitrite the guilty one, giving finally...

Direction Giacomo Gentilomo

Cast Antonella Lualdi · Paul Campbell · Enzo Biliotti · Marilyn Buferd

Synopsis In the middle of the nineteenth century in Sorrento, everyone is involved in the civil war. A young girl sees her Mother murdered in front of her and she becomes blind as a result. Twelve years later she is grown...

Direction Giuseppe Maria Scotese

Cast Ana Esmeralda · Fausto Tozzi · Mariella Lotti · Umberto Spadaro