Lucio Dalla

Four stories of militancy unfold, tethered to the funeral of Palmiro Togliatti, the legendary leader of the Italian Communist Party. Ettore, a Venezuelan revolutionary in exile in Italy, must return to his country to assume the post of a deceased comrade. Turmoil breaks out in the marriage of Sebastiano, who works for the Communist Party, when he finds his wife in bed with another woman.

Little Rita is a female gunslinger who travels to the Far West chasing outlaws. She takes gold from them and hides it in a cave which she plans to blow up one day and get rid of the root of all evil : money. A reformed cow boy decides to share her way of life. (imdb)

Story of an unhappy love affair between a young left-wing student and a middle-class young woman. (bfi)

A young writer's obsession with the poet Rimbaud compels him to abandon his relationships and enter the Ethiopian desert.

Concert film of the unique collaboration that took place in 1979 between Italian singer-songwriters Francesco De Gregori and Lucio Dalla, until then considered by many to be polar opposites in both musical and personal styles.

A group of rich decadents pick up wanderers from the streets and take them back to their large villa, where they are initially treated with consummate care but things take a turn for the worse. (imdb)

This is a tribute to an artist whose songs told the story of Italy at a time of rapid social and cultural change. Thanks to the testimony of the singer's manager and friend Tobia Righi, and an effective and original use of archive material, Pietro Marcello retraces the life of Lucio Dalla, making him a spotlight through which Marcello sheds light on a country that rose from the ruins of the Second World War to sever its roots with peasant culture and move towards a future of factories, consumeri