Luciano Emmer

Sunday, august 7th. Various people from Rome, poor and rich ones, spend their Sunday at the beach in Ostia.

Pietro, a young champion of natural childbirth, is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she participates in breathing exercises, physical training and lectures explaining the physiology of parturition. (en.wikipedia.org)

Mario De Santis, seller of toothpaste and regularly married with Valeria, gets accused of being a bigamist.

This story unravels during the long hours following sunset and preceding dawn. There are six love stories intertwined with each other. Stories made up of meetings, waits, passions, contrasts and abandonment. (filmitalia.org)

Three beautiful seamstresses from one of the fashionable dress salons near the Piazza de Spagna in Rome gather on the steps of the square to eat lunch and talk of their love lives. (imdb)

Parigi e Sempre Parigi was the second feature-length effort from famed Italian documentary director Luciano Emmer and tells the story of DeAngelis, an italian that has heard so much about "naughty Paree" that he's determined to experience that naughtiness first hand. (mubi)

A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico (Lino Ventura) and Vincenzo (Bernard Fresson) take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else (Marina Vlady) and Carrel (Magali Noel) who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men.

Art imagery montage from Italy's Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras.

Romantic poetry with pictures and text.

The life of a group of students in their last year of high school

A short Italian film from Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras using paintings to tell a story of warriors.

Short documentary on art.

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".

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

The Legend of the Miraculous brothers according to the paintings of Beato Angelico.

Deals with the works of the artist Giotto, contrasting the hieratic mood of his predecessors with his innovations. Shows the major cycles of his frescoes, including those at the Upper and Lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi, the Scrovegni family Arena Chapel in Padua, and St. Croce in Florence.

Short documentary on art history.

Art history documentary from Luciano Emmer.

Documentary short of art history.

Art documentary from Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras.

Short art film in competition at the 1st Berlin Film Festival.

This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the sick souls and the sorrows of literary characters and musicians who lived the dream of this city. It is the Venice of Lord Byron, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, d'Annunzio; a Venice made of precious images, palaces reflected in the water, mysterious moonlights, little squares where unhappy lovers wander under the music of Richard Wagner.

The color of an eternal city, Naples, it's people, it's sounds and its volcano.

The story of the brilliant Italian artist, sculptor, architect and engineer is told in this informative program. Leonardo's legacy to the world came in so many forms; in the breathtaking beauty of The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa; his rich collection of drawing; the mirror-written notebooks containing original thoughts on astronomy, biology and physiology.

The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his «pink phase».

Made on behalf of a Catholic society, it is a short document about anthropological myths and rituals in the city of Naples narrated by Eduardo De Filippo. Long considered lost, it has recently re-emerged in a new light thanks to the restoration of the Cineteca of Bologna.

The story of Jesus Christ told through paintings.