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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Magia Lucana · 1958Magia Lucana
★ 8.51958
MovieDocumentary
Short documentary about pagan rites in the countryside.
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.
I misteri di Roma · 1963I misteri di Roma
★ 7.01963
MovieDocumentary
A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.
Il ricevimento · 1968Il ricevimento
1968
Movie
Between makeup, embassy receptions, and musical evenings, the lives of some fallen noblewomen.
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.
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.
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 possessione · 1971La possessione
1971
MovieDocumentary
Documentary on a case of heretical worship that occurred within popular Catholicism in Serra d'Arce, in the province of Salerno, where Giuseppina Gonnella, a sort of mystical sorceress-exorcist, freed people from evil and spells and was sometimes possessed by the spirit of her nephew, who died in a car accident in the 1950s.
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