Cavalcade of a Half Century

Pictura

A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.

Il dramma di Cristo

The documentary focuses on Giotto's frescoes in Padua.

Il paradiso terrestre

A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.

The Invention of the Cross

A text read by the narrator traces the vicissitudes of the crucifixion of Jesus, while the objective of the two directors investigates the style of Piero della Francesca by exploring his frescoes in the Arezzo church of San Francesco.

Il Cantico delle creature

Second art short film dedicated to Giotto's work, this time to the frescoes of the Basilica of Assisi, with the words of the laude of St. Francis accompanying the "animated" images of the paintings.

Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna

Picasso

The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”

Racconto da un affresco

The first art film by Emmer and Gras dedicated to Giotto's frescos in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. By capturing the humanity of the figures that populate the story of the life of Jesus, the two Directors treat the series of paintings like a true canvas, isolating the single scenes from the context of the work, and then re-composing them in a new synthesis. The film was re-edited in 1946 and entitled Il dramma di Cristo.

Goya

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Guerrieri

A short Italian film from Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras using paintings to tell a story of warriors.

L'allegoria della primavera

The elegant allegories of Botticelli are our guides as we explore a universe in which mysticism and paganism meet.

Destino d'amore, ovvero, piccolo mundo al platino

A film comprising of numerous sentimental depictions of love.

The Bigamist

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.

High School

It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.

Sunday in August

The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.

Girl in the Window

A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.