The Flame that Never Dies

Almayer's Folly

An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's first novel, taking us to the Malaysian mangrove forests against a backdrop of colonial decadence.

I racconti di Padre Brown

Antigone

Cottafavi's adaptation of the Greek tragedy for RAI.

Christopher Colombus

Vittorio Cottafavi's four part series on the life of Christopher Colombus

Vita di Dante

Part of a trilogy of “Famous Lives” conceived by Angelo Guglielmi, Vittorio Cottafavi's television series is a rigorous reconstruction of the biography of the great poet, alternating between fiction and documentary sequences.

Fantasmi del mare

Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from Pola and headed south. In time of danger, the man is forced to sacrifice the lives of seven sailors and the son of the Captain, his good friend, in order to save the rest of the crew.

I Piombi di Venezia

A young Venetian officer falls in love with a slave girl.

The Gates of Heaven

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.

Traviata 53

An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.

100 Horsemen

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

Milady and the Musketeers

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.

A Free Woman

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.

The Warrior and the Slave Girl

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent

A come Andromeda

Set in 1973, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once built, this computer provokes argument between two of leading team members, Fleming and Dawnay, over the machine's real intentions as it provides further instructions to create a living organism, which Dawnay starts to develop. Later it appears to compel lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and when the organism is fully developed, it appears in the exact form of Christine, and named Andromeda. But what is the purpose of this "creature"?

The Devil in the Hills

It is in the late 1930s, and Cesare Pavese, a writer, with two of his friends meets a very uninhibited noble couple.

In amore si pecca in due

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi.