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

Mother Teresa

2004 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

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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

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Ramses

2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Orlando Corradi

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Gengis Khan

2004 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Orlando Corradi

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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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