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.

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When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbri...

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

Biopic of the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet and Ahmet Ümit, who followed in his footsteps. Based on the ...

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

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...

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

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Mi...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

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

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

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

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

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. St...

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