Screenplay: Luciano Scaffa
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Luciano Scaffa. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Cartesius (TV)
1974 · Movie · 152 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Rossellini
Cast Ugo Cardea · Anne Pouchie · Claude Berthy · Gabriele Banchero
Plot As profoundly simple as its hero’s famous statement “I think, therefore I am,” Roberto Rossellini’s Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.
7.2
110 votes
7.2
110 votes
Blaise Pascal (TV)
1972 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Rossellini
Cast Pierre Arditi · Rita Forzano · Giuseppe Addobbati · Christian De Sica
Plot In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
7.2
122 votes
7.2
122 votes
The Age of Cosimo de Medici (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1973 · Series · 252 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Rossellini
Cast Marcello Di Falco · Virgilio Gazzolo · Tom Felleghy · Mario Erpichini
Plot The lives of artists Cosimo de Medici and Leon Alberti are catalogued in an effort to portray the Renaissance art of Italy from the 1400s. The four hours are an...
7.1
24 votes
7.1
24 votes
Augustine of Hippo (TV)
1972 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Rossellini
Cast Dary Berkani · Virgilio Gazzolo · Cesare Barbetti · Bruno Cattaneo
Plot This late effort from Roberto Rossellini relates in dispassionate fashion the life story of the Bishop of Hippo, a North African region. Augustine flourished during the last years of the...
6.1
40 votes
6.1
40 votes
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Turandot
2004 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Orlando Corradi
Plot 90-minute animated feature film based on the 1926 opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini.
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Jesus: A Kingdom Without Frontiers
2000 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luciano Scaffa
Plot 90 min animated feature film depicting the life of Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE).
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The Old Testament (TV Series)
2003 · Series · 25 min. · Italy
Direction Bong-Kyung An · Hunc Sanc Man · Yung Wo Young
Plot This is the subject of the most widely-read book in the world from which, in thirty-nine episodes, we evoke the characters and events so that people from many generations including...
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Da Gerusalemme a Damasco
1970 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Rossellini
Cast Jacques Dumur · Edoardo Torricella · Enrico Osterman · Malo Brass
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Saint Anthony
2008 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Daehong Kim
Plot 90-minute 3-D theatrical feature film based on the life of Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), the Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order.
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Alexander the Great
2006 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Daehong Kim
Plot 90-minute 3-D animated feature based on Alexander the Great, the king of Macedonia.
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Acts of the Apostles (TV Miniseries)
1969 · Series · 340 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Rossellini
Cast Bradai · Edoardo Torricella · Jacques Dumur · Mohamed Kouka
Plot This dramatization from the New Testament originated as a 342-minute, five-part television mini-series; it was subsequently released in a shortened, 280-minute version. In part one, the Apostles call the pilgrims...
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Padre Pio
2006 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Orlando Corradi
Plot 90-minute animated feature film depicting the life of Pio of Pietrelcina (1887–1968), an Italian Capuchin priest who is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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