Rino and Cristiano Zena, father and son, live in a desolate northern Italian province. Rino is unemployed earning his living as he can. The boy attends middle school and is very...

Caterina is a shy girl of 13 who has to leave Montalto di Castro, the little city where she was born, to move to Rome with her parents. Settling down in the new city is not easy....

The making of "Roma, città aperta" by Rossellini, the difficulties in producing it, the mild reaction from the audience at the opening night.

Rome, the spring of 1944. The mother of twelve-year-old Paolo has just died after a long illness. Among the neighbours who come to the boy’s aid there is a young German woman,...

Cristina da Pizzano, or Christine de Pisan, lived at the court of Carlo V, where her father was a physician and astrologer. When her husband died, she found herself a widow and...

After a moped accident a girl of 15 is taken to the hospital. She is the daughter of a surgeon who works in the hospital, Timoteo. While a colleague is operating on his daughter,...

Michele Casali, a failed painter, teaches for a living. His marriage with a beautiful and cold woman isn’t happy. His only task in life is the education of his daughter...