Vittorio Taviani Movies

Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the...

This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this...

At the end of the XIX century in Russia, Prince Dimitri Necklivdov is called as a jury-man in a trial. The defendant is Katiuscia Maslova, accused of...

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...

A melodrama supervised by Roberto Rossellini.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.