Films with: Mastroianni, Ruggero

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli Christ stopped at Eboli /

Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.

DVD 4173

Death in Venice

In Venice on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach encounters a young Polish boy and becomes obsessed with him, a secret passion that will lead to his doom.

DVD 7882

Death in Venice

Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema₂s most exalted literary adaptations.

DVD 13009

E la nave va And the ship sails on /

In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie.

DVD 779

Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto investigation of a citizen above suspicion /

"The Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector ... investigating a heinous crime-which he himself committed"--Container.

DVD 10140

Prova d'orchestra Orchestra rehearsal /

A controversial yet comical film, it depicts the turmoil of Italian society through events that take place during a rehearsal gathering set in a 13th century chapel, as the musicians rebel against their conductor.

DVD 715

Touche pas à la femme blanche Don't touch the white woman /

Presents a unique and anachronistic pastiche on the American western and a subversive swipe at the treatment of Native Americans. As the cavalry fights the Indians, coward General Custer is trying to fight off the advances of both Sitting Bull and Marie-Hélène while modern day Parisian life goes on around them.

DVD 898