Italian Movie Summaries- Titles S-Z September 1, 2015 Sanguepazzo English Translation: Wild Blood Run Time: 154 mins A pair of movie stars rise to fame during World War II through alliances that taint their reputation in this historical drama based on a true story. Salvatore Guiliano English translation: Salvatore Guiliano Run time: 123 mins In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to do
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Italian Movie Summaries- Titles S-Z
September 1, 2015
SanguepazzoEnglish Translation: Wild Blood
Run Time: 154 minsA pair of movie stars rise to fame during World War II through
alliances that taint their reputation in this historical drama based on a true story.
Run time: 123 minsIn 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned
down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano
and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to do their fighting, and the days leading up to and following
Giuliano's death.
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Lo Sceicco BiancoEnglish Tranlation: The White Sheik
Run Time: 85 min.During a day on their honeymoon a
couple is separated by the city’s lust and the desires it produces.
Sciuscia RagazziEnglish translation: Shoeshine
Run time: 91 minsTwo shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy, save up to buy a
horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison where the experience take a devastating toll on their
friendship.
La ScortaEnglish translation: The Escort
Run time: 95 minsAn honest Judge, with marriage problems, volunteers for a job, in a corrupt area of Sicily, the previous holder of this job having been
assasinated along with his Escort.
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Secrets of the Dead: MichelangeloEnglish translation: Secrets of the Dead: Michelangelo
Run time: 60 minsMichelangelo Revealed' paints a new picture of brave religious expression, personal vendettas, careful cover-ups and a most gifted artist desperately trying to reconcile his loyalty to the
church with his own belief about salvation.
SensoEnglish Translation: Sense
Run time: 115 minsA troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays
her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Signor Max, IIEnglish translation: Mr. Max II
Run time: 82 minsVittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and
owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a
fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is
mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it.
La Signora di tuttiEnglish translation: The Woman of Everyone
Run time: 89 minsGaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without
her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
Toto -La MadragolaEnglish translation:Run time: 103 mins
A man tried to seduce a married woman. He then discovers that she is unable to have children. There is one potion that
will allow her to conceive. Still, the consumption of this potion holds conditions. The first man she conceives a child with will
die.
Totó: Siamo uomini o caporali?English translationRun time: 92 mins
Men who slave, raise families and are basically simple good men and the Corporals of the world who make life difficult for regular
guys.
Touring ItalyEnglish translation: Touring Italy
Run time: 60 mins A land with great cultural and historical significance, Italy
possesses many of the world’s priceless paintings, sculptures, and treasures of antiquity.
La TraviataEnglish translation: The Traviata
Run time: 105 minsLa Traviata is a 1982 Italian film written, designed, and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It is based on the opera La traviata with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by
Run time: 118 minsCarlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime
girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano
and Alberto reluctantly grapple with their own responsibilities.
Umberto D.English translation: Umberto D.
Run time: 82 minsUmberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street
demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Umberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with his dog Flick. Umberto's lone friend is Maria, servant of the boarding house. She is a simple girl who
is pregnant by one of two soldiers and neither will admit to being the father.
The Unification of ItalyEnglish translation: The Unification of Italy
Run time: 30 minsThis 18 part history series covers significant events from the 16the
century through the two world wars and the triumph of Ghandi. Spanning four continents and four centuries, in-depth questions
and stimulating solutions are offered by prominent professors and authors.
Gli Uomini, che mascalzoni!English translation: What Soudnrels are Men!
Run time: 63 minsBruno, the driver and mechanic of a wealthy man from Milan, falls deeply in love with Maura, a sales woman at a perfume shop.
L’Uomo dalla croceEnglish translation: The Man on a Cross
Run time: 88 mins On the Russian front during the summer of 1942, a saintly Italian
chaplain aids a group of soldiers and peasants in a small village under Italian and Russian gunfire.
L’Uomo delle stelleEnglish translation: The Star Maker
Run time: 107 minsDottore" Joe Moretti travels round Sicily doing screen tests for the big Roman studios. He's a conman and takes money or favors for
his efforts. Beata, a young illiterate convent girl desperately wants to change her life and falls for him, belatedly he realizes his feelings
for her. Their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.
Vecchia guardiaEnglish Translation: Old Guard
Run time: 87 min.The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local
group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting. The film
ends with the March on Rome that brought Benito Mussolini to power.
Venice: Artistic, Cultural, A Beautiful CityEnglish translation: Venice: Artistic, Cultural, A Beautiful City
Run time 30 minsFew cities in the world are as beautiful as Venice. This film illustrates
the majestic beauty of Venice, as well as its cultural and artistic treasures.
Verdi, Giuseppe (Famous Composers Series)English transaltion:
Verdi, Giuseppe (Famous Composers Series)Run time: 35 mins
These informative programs are a concise overview of the composer’s life and times, filed on location in the cities and
places that influenced their works. Also included is a detailed list of each composer’s most significant musical compositions.
I Vespri SicilianEnglish translation: The Scilian Vespers
Run time: 211 minsThis film epitomizes the elegant life style of the Paris Opera. Set in Sicily at the twilight of the French occupation, the opera swirls with intimate ensembles, splendid public scenes and heroic public
choruses.
I Viaggi di GulliverEnglish translation: Gullivers Travels
Run time: 137 minsAn Englishman returns after a long time abroad and tells his strange stories about the lands he visited which are
La Vita e BellaEnglish translation: Life is Beautiful
Run time: 116 minsA Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humor, but must use that same quality to protect his
son in a Nazi death camp.
Una Vita DificileEnglish Translation: A Difficult Life
Run Time: 120 min.Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to
imprisonment.
I VitelloniEnglish translation: The Bulloks
Run time: 107 minsA character study of five young men at crucial turning points
in their lives in a small town in Italy.
We Have a PopeEnglish translation: We Have a Pope
Run time: 105 minsA story centered on the relationship between the
