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1) Nostalghia
Language
Italiano
Description
Traveling through Italy with an interpreter to research a composer's life, a poet haunted by visions of his home and family in Russia meets a hermit fixated on the spiritual decay of humanity who claims he knows the secret of its salvation.
2) Cartesius
Series
Eclipse volume ser. 14
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Italiano
Description
René Descartes was known as the "Father of modern philosophy." Depicts the seventeenth-century thinker's agonized struggle to assert the primacy of reason. An intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.
Series
Roberto Rossellini's War trilogy volume 3
Criterion collection volume 499
Criterion collection volume 500
Criterion collection volume 499
Criterion collection volume 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin seen through the eyes of a 12-year old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher.
Series
Criterion collection volume 293
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Italiano
Description
In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of humility, faith, and sacrifice of the People's Saint--Container.
Series
Eclipse volume ser. 14
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008], ©2008
Language
Italiano
Description
Like a Renaissance painting come to life and gives a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. Focuses on two of the city's leading citizens: banker Cosimo de' Medici and art theorist Leon Battista Alberti.
Series
Eclipse volume ser. 14
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Français
Description
Evoking the terror and desperation of the seventeenth century, this film brings to life Blaise Pascal, the philosopher and mathematician who, amidst religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
Series
Criterion collection volume 463
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires.
Series
Criterion collection volume 323
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Italiano
Description
A four-year-old boy is trapped in a loveless family with his suicidal father and his adulteress mother.
10) Paisan: Paisà
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Italiano
Description
Set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people living their everyday lives in extreme circumstances.
Series
Criterion collection volume 500
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Italiano
Description
When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.
