Directing
Luigi Di Gianni
Born October 20, 1926 · Naples, Italy
Died May 10, 2019 · aged 92
Luigi Di Gianni (born in Naples on October 20, 1926 and died in Rome on May 10, 2019) is an Italian screenwriter and director. Luigi Di Gianni believes in the power of cinema. It is this spirit, tragic and rogue, that has always possessed him. And that makes his films an experience difficult to forget in any hurry. It is an insinuating spirit, which ends up delighting and even tormenting the spec…
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L'Annunziata · 1961L'Annunziata
1961
MovieDocumentary
A visit inside the walls of the Annunziata, an ancient Neapolitan orphanage for girls, where numerous young women reside while waiting to get engaged, find work, and redeem themselves socially, but also elderly women who have resigned themselves to a life spent there.
Il lagno · 1966Il lagno
1966
Movie
The Lagno is the canal that crosses Naples, collecting its debris to stop even before reaching the sea. Around its dirty waters, the film outlines a cross-section that is anything but oleographic of the Neapolitan capital, immortalized already in the advanced industrial era and still wearing the signs of war and desperate poverty. After a few spoken notes, the sound commentary is entirely inhabited by a ghostly composition.
Magia Lucana · 1958Magia Lucana
★ 8.51958
MovieDocumentary
Short documentary about pagan rites in the countryside.
L'attaccatura · 1971L'attaccatura
1971
MovieDocumentary
In a working-class neighborhood of Naples, a woman works as a sorceress and healer. Gianni spends a day with her, observing her work with poor clients, the sick, those suffering from love, and, of course, the superstitious.
L'Apparizione · 1968L'Apparizione
1968
MovieDocumentary
In a small town in Lazio every year a procession is held in honor of San Giovanni, to ask forgiveness for the sins committed, recalling an ancient legend.
I fujenti · 1966I fujenti
1966
Movie
These are ceremonies and events linked to the traditional festival of the Madonna dell'Arco, which culminates on Easter Monday in the church of St. Anastasia, 9 kilometers from Naples. The sanctuary houses around four thousand votive offerings that document the popular desire for salvation during collective and individual calamities.
La tana · 1967La tana
★ 10.01967
Movie
A man lives holed up in an old house, inherited from his ancestors, seeking refuge from the threats of the outside world. Between waking and dreaming, he is the helpless witness to his own disintegration.
Il ricevimento · 1968Il ricevimento
1968
Movie
Between makeup, embassy receptions, and musical evenings, the lives of some fallen noblewomen.
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