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.

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

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

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...

It has been over one hundred years since M. K. Čiurlionis left his lasting imprint on Lithuanian cul...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

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...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...