The legal death
Giuliano Montaldo talks about the genesis of the film Sacco and Vanzetti
In USA, in 1920, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were sentenced to death, the only crime they were guilty of was of being anarchists. Millions of voices in many languages were raised in protest. They sought justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, but nothing could save their lives. Almost fifty years later, in 1971, the Italian director Giuliano Montaldo made a film about their unbelievable story. “Sacco e Vanzetti” immediately became a manifesto against intolerance, injustice and the death penalty. It was a huge international success.
Produced by Iframe
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Directed by Silvia Giulietti e Giotto Barbieri
0,9 Ampere
Electroshock cure or torture?
The electroshock, is still used today and is probably one of the most controversial therapies in existence, was invented by an Italian neuropsychiatrist, Ugo Cerletti, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rome, in 1938 and this was based on inducing convulsions on a patient through an electric current of 0.9 Ampere to the brain.
For some people the practice should have been banned, for others it was the last resort for severe pathologies, but what do we really know about electroshock?
Produced by Luminous Range Films
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Directed by Giotto Barbieri
Mà de mà
The intertwined destinies of Michelangelo and Raffaello, the last two Italian transatlantic historians. Thirty years after the destruction of Michelangelo and Raffaello, the Genoese son of one of Michelangelo's officers, began a personal quest, full of tenderness and irony, in the footsteps of his father. Thanks to archive images, Super 8 footage shot in the 70s by the Ligurian officers themselves and the testimony of some elderly crew members, the documentary recounts the paradoxical fate of the two transatlantic liners.
Produced by Fandango (It) Merapì prod (Fr)
Full version (French)
Directed by Giotto Barbieri
RING! a boxing story
Cornigliano, Genoa, Italy. Today.
Salvatore and Christian Costarelli, marble-cutters. After eight hours of work they go to the gym to train very hardly, to make the boxing.Why do they do it? What do they dream?
Produced by Luminous Range Films
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Directed by Giotto Barbieri
Nobody is perfectDocumentary series
Chapter 2
Narcolepsy
Chapter 4
My Tourette and me
Produced by Wilder
Narcolepsy (IT)
My Tourette and me (IT)
Directed by Giotto Barbieri