Movies: Ugo Gregoretti

Falling somewhere in-between a documentary and a droll drama (more like an enactment of reality, with a wink), this film by TV director Ugo Gregoretti looks in on a variety of social and ethnic situations throughout Italy. Sexual morés are contrasted...

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The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management decided to fire all the personnel and sell the land on which the factory was standing. In the form of a doc...

The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered....

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini...

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In a hypothetical future not too far away people are completely dazed and spend their days passively watching TV. The state is controlled by a dictator, the Supreme Dreamer, who governs through the brutal force of the police, whose agents have a very...

italian documentary...

Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compr...

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria....

Factory workers struggles over contracts in post-68 Italy documented through original footage....

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An unusual portrait of Ugo Gregoretti, actor, film, television and theater director, and father of 5 children. His children and his wife tell us about him, going through the years spent together, talking about his irony and tenderness, his indulgence...

An hour with Roberto Rossellini. Interviewed by Gregoretti, the director of Paisà and Europa 51 retraces his life, his work, his relationship with the young critics of the Cahiers du Cinéma who would become the authors of the French New Wave, but als...