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.

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragos...

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

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

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

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

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...

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class R...

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...

Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whol...

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem ...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.