Vittorio Taviani Movies

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is...

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing...

This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios...

An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is...

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.

Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.

A documentary about Italy's underground oil and metan deposits, sponsored by Italian state-owned oil company, ENI. Pictures of the state-of-the-art...

Toward the end of World War II, the village in Italy where the filmmakers are from is threatened with destruction by the Germans.

Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at...

The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiero Togliatti's funeral with the intermingled stories of four people affected by his death:...