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Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Assisi perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The documentary shows the main sites in Assis, Italy as well many art and of the order they founded. The images then create a sort of walk in front of the art pieces from Giotto and Cimabue.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

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.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Vecchia guardia perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young aristocrat, planning to spend more time in town, returns to his farmland to sell out to a modernizing new owner, thus threatening the welfare of the peasants who worked for him.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

During the traditional Siena celebration of the Palio, jockeys from different neighborhoods compete in the culminating horse race in the town square and vie with each other for the local women.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Terra madre perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

Corrado Valeri, naval officer, has a wife who is a bit frivolous while he is a bit too jealous. This situation has repercussions on his military life with continuous failures.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Palio perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

Anticipating the neo realism of over a decade later, Sole uses real locations and non professional actors to dramatize a Mussolini project: to reclaim malarial swamp south of Rome and turn it into farmland and housing.

Dir: Alessandro Blasetti

Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.