Mino Bellei

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.

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Il complotto di luglio

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

Cavani made her first full-length feature film in 1966 with Francis of Assisi (Francesco d'Assisi). Made for television and aired in two parts, it was deeply influenced by the style of Rossellini and the atmosphere typical of the films of Pasolini. Made in a period of political unrest, it was to become a kind of manifesto of dissenting Catholicism. Starring Lou Castel, it portrays Francis of Assisi as a slightly depressed protestor and an avid, albeit mad, supporter of armed brotherhood. The ideal defender of the 1968 student movement. The film was a great success, but also triggered many negative reactions. It was called "heretical, blasphemous and offensive for the faith of the Italian people". It was the first of many polemical reactions to Cavani's work.

Franco Riva, a geologist who works in Ivory Coast, suddenly returns to Italy, to Genoa, to see his girlfriend, Claudia Fiori, of whom he has not heard for some time. Riva gathers various information about his fate. The concierge of her apartment, which she left two months ago, claims that Claudia has rented a house on the Riviera and got married. Instead, Claudia's sister, Laura, excludes that she might have gotten married without telling her anything and shows the man a postcard that Claudia sent her from Stockholm, where she told her that she was moving for the company where she worked. But the owner of the company, Piero Ricci, denies even the existence of a branch in Stockholm. So Franco turns to the police...

A pacifist pest controller tries to catch the rat infesting a nuclear power plant.