Franco Arcalli
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelgänger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed.
Series
Criterion collection volume 59
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The chance meeting of a woman and a former Nazi SS officer brings back memories of their sado-masochistic relationship in a concentration camp years before.
7) 1900
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
Series
Criterion collection volume 59
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.