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Italian Films

Films are listed alphabetically by the title given on the film box, but, where possible, the Italian or English equivalent is also listed. If you cannot find what you are looking for, ask an LTC employee for assistance. You can search for more information about a particular film using a very helpful resource, the Internet Movie Database. (Clicking will open it in a new window). Films are subtitled in English unless otherwise noted. At the bottom is a list of Italian films that are not in the LTC but are in Briggs Library. To recommend a film that is not yet in the LTC collection, send an email to Viktor Berberi, LTC Director: berberiv@morris.umn.edu 

Title: 8 1/2
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimèe
Year: 1963
Run Time: 139 minutes
Summary: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Format: DVD
Title: L'Alber degli Zoccoli English: The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Starring: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli, Carlo Rota, Pasqualina Brolis, Massimo Fratus, Francesca Villa, Maria Grazia Caroli, Battista Trevaini, Giuseppina Langalelli, Lorenzo Pedroni, and Felice Cessi
Year: 1978
Run Time: 179 minutes
Summary: he life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. the boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?
Format: DVD
Title: Amaracordmarcor
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Magalì Noel, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio and Armando Brancia
Year: 1974
Run Time: 127 minutes
Summary: In this movie Fellini portrays his hometown of Rimini as he remembered it in '30s, during his young days.
Format: DVD
Title: Bread and Tulips Italian: Pane e Tulipani
Director: Silvio Soldini
Starring: Giuseppe Battistion, Antonio Catania, Marina Massironi, Vitalba Andrea, Caniela Piperno and Tatiana Lepore
Year: 2002
Run Time: 116 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of nine David Di Donatello Awards, Winner of Toronto International Film Festival and Winner of Cannes Film Festival
Summary: A busy housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family. She decides to take a vacation of her own in Venice. Here she discovers the things in life that make her happy. Will she return home to her husband or stay in Venice?
Format: DVD
Title: Caro Diario English: Dear Diary
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Nanni Moretti, Giovanna Bozzolo, Sebastiano Nardone andAntonio Petrocelli
Year: 1993
Run Time: 96 minutes
Summary:
Nani Moretti directs himself playing himself in this wry look at life. Presented in three chapters, Moretti uses the experiences of travelling.
Format: DVD
Title: Caterina va in Città English: Caterina in the Big City
Director: Paolo Virzì
Starring: Sergio Castellitto and Margherita Buy
Year: 2003
Run Time: 105 minutes
Summary:
When his Father Giancarlo (Castellitto) is transferred to Rome Caterina (Alice Teghil), a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically. And developing her friendship with the link (represented by Margerita (Carolina Iaquaniello) and the right (Daniela (Federica Sbrenna)) side of her class she will lose herself, without knowing who really she is. However, maybe is Edward (Zach Wallen), the boy who lives in the facing windows that can help her more that she thinks.
Format: DVD
Title: Ciao, Professore!
Director: Lina Wertmuller
Starring: Isa Danieli, Gigio Morra, Eser Carloni and Sergio Solli
Year: 1976
Run Time: 91 minutes
Acclaim Award: “Rambunctious comedy!”-Los Angeles Times
Summary: A comedy about a strict, no-nonsense teacher whose street-smart students teach him the most valuable lessons of life.
Format: VHS
Title: Cinema Paradiso
Director: Gruseppe Tornatore
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili and Pupella Maggio
Year: 1989
Run Time: 174 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Academy award winner of Best Foreign Language Film
Summary: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Format: DVD
Title: Da Zero A Dieci
Director: Luciano Ligabue
Starring: Massimo Dellinzoni, Elisabetta Cavallotti, Pierfrancesco Favino, Barbara Lerici, Stefano Pesce, Stefania Rivi, Fabrizia Sacchi, Stefano Sacchi, Stefano Venturi, and Sergio Romano
Year: 2002
Run Time: 99 minutes
Format: DVD
Title: Le Fate Ignoranti English: The Ignorant Fairies
Director: Ferazan Ozpetek
Starring: Margherita Buy and Stefano Accorsi
Year: 2001
Run Time: 106 minutes
Summary: AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man.
Format: DVD
Title: Gattopardo English: The Leopard
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Sere Reggiani and Rina Morelli
Year: 1963
Run Time: 205 minutes
Summary:
Sicily in the 1800s. Prince Salina, a great landowner, has to watch the decrease of his power and influence after 'Il Risorgimento'.
Format: DVD
Title: Italian for Beginners
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Stovelbaek and Ann Eleonora Jorgensen
Year: 2000
Run Time: 97 minutes
Acclaim/Award: “Fun and filled with warm humor!”-Chicago Sun-Times
Summary: A romantic comedy about seven perfect strangers and the shared journey of discovery that changes each of their lives. A mismatched collection of opposites sign up for an Italian class in hopes of spicing up their lives.
Format: DVD
Title: Lamerica
Director: Gianni Amerlio
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso, and Michele Placido
Year: 1994
Run Time: 115 minutes
Summary: Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants.
Format: DVD
Title: Life is Beautiful
Director: Roberto Benigni
Starring: Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi
Year: 1998
Run Time: 116 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Nominated for seven Academy Awards and Winner of three Oscars
Summary: A man’s life is threatened by World War II and he must rely on his creativity and strength to save his wife and son.
Format: DVD
Title: Mille Bolle Blu
Director: Leone Pompucci
Starring: Carla Benedetti,Matteo Fadda and Giacomo Fadda
Year: 1996
Run Time: 83 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Given four stars from the Toronto Sun Newspaper
Summary: The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino.
Format: VHS

Title: Mio padre è innocente
Directed by: Vincenzo Verdecchi

Starring: Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Emma Gramatica
Year: 1997
Run time: 112 minutes
Note: Stored with the Advanced Italian computer program
Format: DVD

Title: Miracle in Milan
Directed by: Vittorio de Sica
Year: 1951
Starring: Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Emma Gramatica
Acclaim / Awards: “The rich vein of sly, compassionate humor that Chaplin used to mine has been tapped by De Sica: the great director has brought up purest gold.” --Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
Run time: 96 minutes
Summary: The story of Toto, an abandoned newborn who is raised by a kindly old lady to be a paragon of goodness.
Format: VHS
Title: Nirvana
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Diego Abtantuono and Sergio Rubini
Year: 1997
Run Time: 113 minutes
Summary: Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
Format: DVD
Title: La Notte English: The Night
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau
Year: 1989
Run Time: 115 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival
Summary: Giovanni, a sucessful writer, and his wife Lydia visit their friend Tommaso who is dying in hospital.
Format: DVD
Title: Open City
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Anna Magnani
Year: 1945
Run Time: 105 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival
Summary: Filmed on the streets of Rome in the first weeks of the Allied liberation this film evokes the conflicting feelings of despair and determination.
Format: DVD
Title: L’Ora Di Religione English: The Religion Hour
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig and Chiara Conti
Year: 2002
Run Time: 102 minutes
Summary: A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Format: DVD
Title: The Organizer
Director: Mario Monicelli
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anne Girardot and Bernared Blier
Year: 1964
Run Time: 127 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of four International Film Festival Awards
Summary: In 19th century Turin, an itinerant professor unites a ragtag group of textile workers in a strike against their factory.
Format: VHS
Title: Padre Padrone English: My Father My Master
Director: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Starring: Omero Antonutti, SaverioMarconi, MarcellaMichelangelo and Fabrizio Forte
Year: 1977
Run Time: 117 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Grand and Critics Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival
Summary: The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.
Format: DVD
Title: Santa Maradona
Director: Marco Ponti
Starring: Stegano Accorsi and Anita Caparioli
Year: 2002
Run Time: 96 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of two David Di Donatello Awards
Summary: Andrea, 27 year old, just graduated from University with a useless degree. He spends his days looking for a job and killing time talking endlessly with room-mate Bart and Indo-Italian friend Lucia. Everything changes when he meets Dolores, a beautiful teacher and actress.
Format: DVD
Title: The Seduction of Mimi
Director: Lina Wertmüller
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato and Agostina Belli
Year: 1997
Run Time: 89 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of Cannes Film Festival, Best Director
Summary: A Sicilian laborer decides not to vote for the Mafia’s candidate and loses his job, wife and home. The predicaments that arise throw his life into a pile of comical complexities.
Format: DVD
Title: The Son’s Room
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca and Giuseppe Sanfelice
Year: 2001
Run Time: 100 minutes
Acclaim/Award: Winner of Best Picture from Cannes Film Festival
Summary: The story of a man facing the greatest challenge of his life. A tragedy hits home and turns his life upside down and he must find the courage to deal with his own grief while giving strength to those who need him most.
Format: DVD
Title: Blowup
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni's
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings and Sarah Miles
Year: 1986
Run Time: 1hr 45minutes
Summary: Peek in London's sexy, steamy fashion world where seduction are as free as young girls' spiritand the music is devastating as a drug.
Format: VHS

Title: Two women
Director: Vittoria Di Sica
Starring: Jean Paul Belmond,Sophia Loren
Year: 1961
Run Time: 99minutes
Summary: A woman with her 14 year old daughter became the focus of an attack by retreating German soldiers.
Format:
VHS

Title: 1900
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu & Dominique Sanda.
Year: 1976
Run Time: 105 minutes
Summary: It is both a vast of history of 20th Italy and an intimate protrait of two families.
Format: VHS
Title: Last Tango in Paris
Director: Bernardo Betolucci
Starring: Maria Schneiner, Jean-Pierre Leaud & Massimo Girotti.
Year: 1972
Run Time: 128 minutes
Summary: American widower in Pari, desolate at the unexpleained suicide of his wife, plunges into an erotic affair with a young French girl half his age.
Format: VHS
Title: L’Ultimo Bacio English: The Last Kiss
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Stefania Ssandrelli
Year: 2001
Run Time: 115 minutes
Summary: Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant.
Format: DVD
Italian Films Located in the Library
Title: Il Postino English: The Postman
Directed by: Michael Radford
Year: 1994
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Summary: The life of the fisherman Mario changes dramatically when the famous Chilean writer Pablo Neruda settles on his little Italian island. Living in exile becuase of his political beliefs, Neruda needs a postman to deliver the huge quantities of mail sent to him by his admirers and Mario takes the job since he hates fishing anyway. The two become friends and Neruda helps the shy and clumsy Mario to win the heart of Beatrice, the beautiful waitress at the village's inn, by showing him the beauty and power of poetry.
Run time: 108 min.
Format: VHS
Library Call Number: PQ8098.29.K3 A73132 1995
Title: Blowup
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Year: 1966
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
Summary: A photographer who is talented but aimless has photographed violence and pain without feeling any involvement. When he takes pictures of a couple in a park, he finds that he may have discovered a mystery, one that insists on involving him.
Run time: 111 min.
Format: VHS
Library Call Number: PN1995.9.F67 B56 1991
Title: Stragia del Ragno English: The Spider’s Stratagem
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Year: 1970
Starring: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini
Summary: Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 -- or so says Draifa (his mistress), the town statue, and everyone in town. As the son untangles the web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web.
Run time: 100 min.
Format: VHS
Library Call Number: PN1997.S82