He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and m...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman name...

Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other one 65, are the core of a community th...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Otto...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
Uli Köhler and Nick Golücke have visited the protagonists of the 1990 World Cup 20 years after their...
A documentary about German tourists on vacation in Italy and various activities at their Italian vac...

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of hi...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Mi...

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Historical drama set during the reign of Philip II of Spain. The royal troops have taken up quarters...

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...