Writing

Italo Moscati

Born August 22, 1937 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy (age 89)

Italo Moscati (born, August 22, 1937) is an Italian writer, film director, and screenwriter. He was born in Milan and, since 1967, has lived and worked in Rome. Moscati has collaborated with many notable figures in Italian cinema and television, including Liliana Cavani, Luigi Comencini, and Giuliano Montaldo. He is also active as a theater and film critic for numerous newspapers and magazines an…

Known For

The Night PorterThe Night Porter · 1974
The Night Porter
6.71974
MovieWarDrama
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
The Year of the CannibalsThe Year of the Cannibals · 1969
The Year of the Cannibals
5.31969
MovieDrama
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.
Il cerchio rottoIl cerchio rotto · 2024
Il cerchio rotto
2024
MovieThriller
Beyond Good and EvilBeyond Good and Evil · 1977
Beyond Good and Evil
5.71977
MovieDrama
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
N.P. - The SecretN.P. - The Secret · 1972
N.P. - The Secret
6.41972
MovieDramaScience Fiction
An engineer invents a revolutionary machine capable of automating all industrial production, thereby eliminating the need for human labor. His groundbreaking innovation, intended to free humanity from work, instead leads to his abduction and brainwashing by unknown forces. He is then left to wander the city, stripped of his memories and identity.
MilarepaMilarepa · 1974
Milarepa
6.71974
MovieDrama
After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark vengeance, spiritual discipline, and ultimate transcendence, reflecting a journey of inner transformation.
1200 km of Beauty1200 km of Beauty · 2016
1200 km of Beauty
6.02016
Movie
Twelve hundred kilometers is length of Italy, from the mountains of the North to the South Sea; from the white of the snow to the blue of the sea. The film is a trip to the peninsula made especially with the documents of the Istituto Luce, in whose archives appears an Italy from the early twentieth century, a long journey up to years close to ours. An articulated Italy, made up of different forms of Beauty, in a territory that has particular characteristics for each region, from Valle d'Aosta and Friuli Venezia Giulia, from Tuscany to Lazio, from Lombardy to Liguria, from Campania to Sicily and its islands; and so on. Twenty regions. The history of the territory, of the its landscape, life of its people and art have always been mixed. The spectacle of nature intertwines with the spectacle of Italian work and creativity, open to the world, loved and visited by the world. The film tells this Italy. Scenarios, art, work, landscapes, culture, shows, great people.
The Invisible OnesThe Invisible Ones · 1988
The Invisible Ones
6.21988
MovieDrama
At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker of the Terni steelworks with a past in student protesting, decides to abandon his job to join an extreme left-wing group. Although he declares himself contrary to the armed struggle following the decision by some elements of the group to carry out terrorist actions, he is arrested upon being caught with his best friend Apache.

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1200 km of Beauty1200 km of Beauty · 2016
1200 km of Beauty
6.02016
Movie
Twelve hundred kilometers is length of Italy, from the mountains of the North to the South Sea; from the white of the snow to the blue of the sea. The film is a trip to the peninsula made especially with the documents of the Istituto Luce, in whose archives appears an Italy from the early twentieth century, a long journey up to years close to ours. An articulated Italy, made up of different forms of Beauty, in a territory that has particular characteristics for each region, from Valle d'Aosta and Friuli Venezia Giulia, from Tuscany to Lazio, from Lombardy to Liguria, from Campania to Sicily and its islands; and so on. Twenty regions. The history of the territory, of the its landscape, life of its people and art have always been mixed. The spectacle of nature intertwines with the spectacle of Italian work and creativity, open to the world, loved and visited by the world. The film tells this Italy. Scenarios, art, work, landscapes, culture, shows, great people.

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