Diego Fabbri

A magnetic Vittorio De Sica is Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa forced by the Nazis to impersonate a dead partisan general in prison to extract information from fellow inmates. (criterion.com)

In this emotional war drama set in Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger (Giovanna Ralli) gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs - an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major. By taking them in, she tragically jeopardizes the safety of her Communist lover while the confinement of the trapped prisoners brings their uneasy alliance to a boiling point, symbolizing the chaos of the world around them. (dvdbeaver.com)

A struggling French family in the Mekong delta during corrupt colonial days. A mother who does what she can to make ends meet, and a son who goes slightly astray. (Eric Sayettat)

Paris, 1840. Whilst driving his fiancée Irène home in his horse-drawn carriage, the Marquis Rodolphe de Sombreuil accidentally knocks down a poor man in the street. Believing the man is only slightly injured, Rodolphe gives him a purse containing some money as a recompense. But the man dies not long afterwards, leaving his wife and daughter Marie desolate. The widow is then arrested by the police, who believe she stole Rodolphe's purse. (Allmovie)

A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies. (imdb)

Adriana loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in to rekindle her lust of life. Soon, Adriana begins having dizzy spells. Cesar helps her to a specialist, and the diagnosis is not good. She has an incurable disease. For the rest of their time together, Cesar woos Adriana and eventually proposes to her on a gondola. (imdb)

The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square among his blasé, upper-class friends to whom cuckoldry is a common practice, is seduced by one of them. At this point doubts and suspicions, like conscience, begin to plague him. (wikipedia)

Four satirical episodes depict the crisis of the institution of marriage in comtemporary society.

Directed by Silverio Blasi and written by Craven Romildo and Diego Fabbri on a story by Giorgio Prosperi, and based on the life of Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.

The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the house of Cardinal Wyszynski. Also appear all the other important stations of the life of the Pope. (imdb)

Documentary about Pope Pius XII, his childhood and his first 3 years as pope at the outbreak of WWII.

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show. (imdb)

Totò meets a little boy whose mother has just died. The little boy is sent out begging by his cruel uncle, but when Totò finds out he gets the uncle imprisoned. The uncle's wife tells the little boy his mother is in hell, so the little boy tries to burn Totò's house so he can join her there. But Totò arrives just in time and convinces the boy that his mother is not in hell. (movie-time)

Story of an industrialist who is killed by a truck and gets a 12 hour reprieve t o return to earth and right two wrongs. From a story by Cesare Zavattini. (bfi)

A suspected murderer's guilt hangs on the reliability of an old man's pocket-watch.

After World War I, the French gentleman thief Arsène Lupin emerged from his convalescence in a hospital to resume his criminal activities. To his surprise, someone else has already initiated a series of robberies with his particular style, even signing one of his crimes with his own name - Arsène Lupin. (Filmaffinity)

Documentary on the Venetian lagoon, in which the words of Diego Fabbri comment on images of strips of land swallowed by the sea, small boats of sailors, men and women intent on work in a world that is "false sea and false land".

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a Christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena.

A group of pilgrims embark on a long train journey to the sanctuary of Loreto, where they hope to receive a miracle.

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.

The story of Jesus Christ told through paintings.