Giorgio Albertazzi

Last Year at Marienbad

At a weekend gathering, a man tells a woman that they had spent time there together a year prior. But, the woman has no recollection whatsoever and is convinced that he is simply fabricating the encounter. The more he speaks about their activities the previous year however, the more compelling he becomes. The question remains however – did they meet previously or not?

White Nights

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Morte di un bandito

L'uomo dalla bocca storta

Fatal Frames

Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella. He soon encounters a mysterious killer who videotapes his victims for the police. As the horrible murders continue, Ritt is unknowingly pushed into the killer's games and he soon becomes a target of the police. The video-killer is on the loose and Ritt must find out the truth before it's too late.

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.

Lauta mancia

The Idiot

Italian televison adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name. Although it is to all intents and purposes a television miniseries, the rhythm of the acting is typically theatrical: the long dialogues, the acting style and the actorly interpretation make it a true example of episodic television theatre.

Resto Umile World Show

The Merchant of Venice

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

La foresta pietrificata

The Robert E. Sherwood play 'The Petrified Forest' directed by Franco Enriquez broadcast by Italian state television channel RAI on 19 June, 1959.

Jekyll

When a series of brutal attacks are committed by a lunatic named Edward Hyde, the investigation leads to molecular biologist Henry Jekyll. But have the doctor's unorthodox experiments unlocked even greater horrors?

The Assassination of Trotsky

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Five Women for the Killer

Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...

Almayer's Folly

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