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History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 1 History-Civilization Power & Oil: Enrico Mattei Predappio, Mussolini’s town Potere & Petrolio: Enrico Mattei Albania Nazis in Roma Albania: Il paese di fronte I Nazisti a Roma Code: 017469 Code: 017491 Code: 017473 Code: 017475 In 1948 in Ripalta a natural gas deposit was discovered. This is how Enrico Mattei began his career. He is one of the most important men in Italy after the Second World War and this documentary shows his life from 1945 to his death in 1962 when he was assassinated. Through his personal story the film goes back to the most important historical events in Italy. What does Predappio mean for Italians today? Why the Duce’s town is still the destination of nostalgic tours and rituals that may be unimaginable somewhere else? The films tries to explore the very first Fascist town that Mussolini commissioned in 1925. Today, Predappio is a mixture of Fascist-like architectural styles, a quite village near Forlì that welcomes tourists wishing to visit the Duce’s native town and his grave… Only 60 miles divide the coasts of Italy to those of Albania, but in spite of this, most Italians started to hear about this country only after 1991 when the TV news showed the first boats crowded with immigrants landing along the coasts of Puglia. However, what did Albania and Albanians look like before those images? The Stalinism dominated the country for more than 40 years and seeing that it was one of the most oppressive form of government, it cut out Albania from the history of the rest of the world and especially from that world characterizing it when its historical events were strictly related to the Italian political events for a decade. 8 September 1943: the radio transmitted the news of the armistice with the allied forces. Two days later Rome was occupied by Nazi troops. This was the beginning of 9 months’ terror for the Italian Capital, with roundups, persecution of the Jewish community, and hunting of Partisans. Gestapo headquarters were set up in Via Tasso where suspects were imprisoned and tortured. The attack in Via Rasella was followed by the horrendous Fosse Ardeatine massacre. The city was starving, on the bare point of survival but, then, in June the end of sufferance: the allied forces arrived, bringing with them a renewed joy of life. Fabio Pellarin Marco Bettozzi Mary Mirka Milo Istituto Luce, Croce del Sud Cinematografica Almafilm, Istituto Luce Roland Sejko and Mauro Brescia Istituto Luce, Regione Lazio Digital Beta 60’ Italian, English subtitles HDV 54’ Italian 2008 Digital Beta 95’ Italian, English subtitles Digital Beta 2 Versions: 70’ and 50’ Italian, English subtitles 2008 2008 2008 1 Director Light History and Istituto Luce Produced by Support Length Language Year History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 2 History-Civilization 2 La memoria sopravvissuta: Ethiopia Herculaneum, diaries of darkness and light Herculaneum, diari del buio e della luce Thermae: Water civilization in the ancient world Thermae: La civiltà dell'acqua nel mondo antico Code: 017477 Code: 017055 Code: 017479 Code: 017483 It’s a long journey in the cultural background enriching the precious lifestyle in Rome from the Golden period of Neorealism that largely influenced Literature and Cinema during the years of the so-called Dolce Vita, between the Fifties and Sixties, up to the 1968, the year of global protest against society. It’s a 20 year historical and cultural description told through film and photos of extraordinary protagonists such as Gadda, Zavattini, Moravia, Fellini, Guttuso and Pasolini (just to mention a few of them). Italy's colonial wars to rise to the status of an international superpower eventually drove it to its fatal alliance with Nazi Germany. The veterans of this war have moving stories about the contrasting emotions that were the characteristic of this conflict. This film tells the story of the excavations at Herculaneum, following Amedeo Maiuri, the archaeologist who in little more than 30 years brought to light the Roman city, which had been destroyed along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Today two-thirds of the ancient city still lie under the modern city of Ercolano. The diaries of Maiuri, together with interviews and unseen footage, lead to in the discovery of the archaeological site. During the development of the great Mediterranean civilizations, man started to have a deep and complex relationship with water. Ancient civilizations considered thermal waters as something supernatural for their mysterious origins. The link between man and water developed by the passing of time, to such an extent that it reached its highest expression of civilization and wealth in Rome’s magnificent thermal buildings. The impressive and ingenious Roman thermes are the result of a millenary experience. Angelo Rossetti Marcellino De Baggis Mauro Brescia Production Polivideo, Istituto Luce Onionskin Istituto Luce Beta SP PAL 52’ Italian, English version in prod. 2008 Digital Beta 52’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Digital Beta 86’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Rome and its cultural background (1944-1968) Città aperta: Vita culturale a Roma dal 1944 al ’68 Battlefield Tour: Ethiopia Director Gianni Borgna Produced by Istituto Luce Support Digital Beta Length 100’ Language Year 2008 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 3 History-Civilization October 1956: The Hungarian Revolution La rivoluzione ungherese A sea tragedy: Andrea Doria cruise ship sunk into ocean Il naufragio dell' Andrea Doria Royal Battleship Roma History of Fascism Regia Nave Roma Storia del Fascismo Code: 017489 Code: 017493 Code: 017495 Code: 017436 There is a general uprising. The people can no longer endure the Russian regime, and the former Habsburg capital, once an appealing and charming city, is now a vast battlefield. Clashes break out everywhere; workers and students, men and women take up arms against the Soviet tanks. Casualties will total almost thirty thousand in two weeks. Desperate appeals come through on the radio, but the tragedy takes place amidst the world’s indifference, and the Hungarian people will be left to face their destiny alone. This is the first event of the 20th century to be followed almost live by millions of people on television. Exactly fifty years after the disaster, the time has come to reveal the mystery behind one of the greatest marine disasters ever and to redistribute blame and praise more justly, with an absorbing documentary using incredible archive and original footage, some seen for the very first time. After fifty years, the various pieces of the puzzle can be fit together to reveal the definitive truth behind the tragic fate of the Andrea Doria, an uncomfortable and in some ways shocking truth. The film opens on the chaotic days of 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th September 1943. In a series of meetings at the Italian Admiralty in Rome, Admiral Bergamini was first ordered to sail his fleet against the Allies, poised to land at Salerno, then to sink it off La Spezia to stop it from falling into German hands and finally, when the armistice signed 6 days before was made public, to surrender it to the Allies in Malta. An important production which analyzes the history of Fascism year after year through the original and highly valued images coming from the Istituto Luce historical archives. Leonardo Tiberi Fabio Toncelli Leonardo Tiberi Piero Melograni Director Istituto Luce in collaboration with Fox International Channels Italy Digital Beta 52’ Italian, English, French subt. 2007 SD Cinematografica in association with Thirteen/WNET New York and Istituto Luce Digital Beta 76’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Istituto Luce and Fox History Channel Italy Rai Trade Produced by Digital Beta 55’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Beta SP PAL 13x60’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Support Length Language Year 3 Nomination DVD Award (2007) History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 4 History-Civilization 4 In the factory Code: 016849 Code: 016808 Code: 016792 In the early 1920's, Italy's newly established Fascist regime hopes to transform the Mediterranean Sea into its Mare Nostrum. Young archaeologist Luigi Maria Ugolini, sent to Albania to oversee the Italian Archaeological Mission, unwittingly finds himself involved in the treacherous "Balkans Game". For some, Ugolini, who brought to light Butrinto, the "Pompeii of Albania", stands as one of the fathers of modern archaeology, while others consider him merely a pawn of Mussolini. They were all roughly eighteen years old, living in the Monferrato zone, in Piedmont, when they chose sides on 8 September 1943. The conversations, the dialogues between the past and present, and among the four girls whose lives intertwined or brushed by each other during the Resistance period, bring to life a form of memory that is not an immobile presentation of the facts, but an intimate, vibrant, vivid look at the very fabric of history through the vehicle of the emotions. This film isn't about the history of Italian industry, its economic progress, its delays or its missed opportunities. It's about the reality behind it. It's a story of faces, workers' faces, a portrait of the people who have populated and still populate Italian factories. It's a tribute to their work, their gestures, their professionalism. It's a mosaic of voices and dialects that ranges from Southern to Northern Italy, from large factories to small ones, and it tries to create an image of Italy. Cipputi Award at the 25th Turin Film Festival, 2007. Maria Martinelli Paola Sangiovanni Francesca Comencini Zeeva Production MetaFilm Rai Cinema, Offside Beta SP PAL 52’ Italian, English 2007 Beta SP PAL 52’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Beta SP PAL/35 mm 73’ Italian, English 2007 Mussolini’s archaeologist La prima filme sulle automobili L’archeologo di Mussolini: Luigi Maria Ugolini Code: 017065 On 17 July 1905 in Turin, Roberto Omegna and Arturo Ambrosio filmed portions of the SusaMoncenisio race, the world's old automobile climbing event. To celebrate the centenary of the production of those 98 metres of film, a TV movie has been produced on the true story of the cinematographic pioneers who created "(la) prima SusaMoncenisio automobile race (1905)". Director Joe Vignola, Federico Lagna Produced by C.E.M. Support Length Language Year Runners: History of women in the Italian resistance Staffette The first car movie Betacam SP PAL 30’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 In fabbrica History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 5 History-Civilization Checkmate Provenzano Scacco al Re: La cattura di Provenzano Diaries: 50 Years of Italian history Diari: 50 anni di storia nei diari degli italiani Treasure of Polluce: The enigma of the sunken ship (the) L’enigma del Polluce Code: 016384 Code: 015480 Code: 013732 Code: 017499 A hundred years of scouting, the history of scouting through archive materials. This docu-drama focuses on the last few months of Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano. 43 years as a fugitive from justice. Taped conversations of Mafiosi talking from their hideouts, eyewitness accounts of the police investigators, plus drama reconstructions provide a description of day-to-day Mafia life. For the very first time, Provenzano's "mailmen" are shown exchanging "pizzini", the handwritten messages used by the head of Cosa Nostra to give orders. The latest fifty years of Italian history put down in black and white by Italian people through their own diaries. A team of deep-sea technicians work side by side with a group of underwater archaeologists from the Italian Ministry of Cultural Assets in an operation that is unique of its kind. For the first time methods and equipment characteristic of archaeological excavations are used in a recovery operation at a depth of more than one hundred metres. It is what remains of the first dramatic shipwreck in the history of passenger shipping in Italy. Fabio Toncelli Gianni Monoli Pippo Cappellano Director SD Cinematografica Claudio Mariano Cirino and Paolo Santolini Rai Fiction, Magnolia Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana Produced by Beta SP PAL 85’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Digital Beta 90’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Beta SP PAL 4x50’ Italian, English subtitles 2007 Capmar Studios in association with RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana and the Historical Diving Society Digital Beta 53’ Italian, English subtitles 2006 A hundred years of scouting Cent’anni di scoutismo 5 Support Length Language Year History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 6 History-Civilization 6 History of Fascism (the) Mussolini’s speeches Breve storia del Fascismo Code: 017501 1) Mussolini, the man and the politician and his rise to power 2) The Matteotti Affair and the birth of the totalitarian state 3) Fascist policy at home and abroad 4) The Vatican agreement and initial contact with Hitler 5) The opponents and the intellectuals of the regime 6) “modernisation” in Italy and the new African colonies 7) The Italians in the 1930s and Fascist support 8) Defeat, civil war and the death of the Duce Simply Beautiful II I discorsi di Mussolini The Unknown Warrior: November 4, 1921 Il Milite Ignoto Code: 017513 Code: 017515 Code: 014872 Mussolini’s speeches recorded in audio and video are about fifty, then considered the most important. The speeches have been completely restored, since the first, which goes back to September 6, 1931, until the last dramatic appeal in the Lyric Theatre in Milan, on December 16, 1944. The idea of celebrating all the soldiers that died during the First World War through the tribute to one single soldier whose body was not identified, began to spread during the Summer of 1921. After 3 month search, a governmental commission was charged of selecting the rests of 11 unidentified soldiers in the cemeteries situated in some Northern Italian regions, and the mother of a missing soldier was called up to decide what was the body that should have been buried in Rome at the famous tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The missing soldier’s coffin travelled all over Italy on a train and thousands of people greeted it with cheers and flags spontaneously from the North to Rome. "Simply Beautiful" is a film created from stock footage: archive images, clips, photos, songs and female voices that trace, through "her" eyes, the historical events that have marked Twentieth-century Italy. A century of images in which especially in this second part (from the Sixties to today) women are very often the protagonists: from the first "single mothers" who pridded themselves on their unmarried status, to the teenagers in miniskirts and the feminists who took to the streets to protest in the Seventies. Leonardo Tiberi Giovanna Gagliardo Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Digital Beta 180’ Italian, English subtitles 2006 Digital Beta 20’ Italian, English 2006 Rai Cinema, Rai Teche in association with Istituto Luce, Bianca Film Digibeta 180’ Italian, English subt. for screening 2006 Director Folco Quilici Produced by Istituto Luce Support Length Language Year Digital Beta 8x54’ Italian, English 2006 Bellissime 2 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 7 History-Civilization Torino la città che corre Golda’s Revenge: “Blacklisted” La vendetta di Golda Meir Operation Sphinx: The Hunt for Iraq's Atomic Bomb (the) Operazione Sphinx Code: 013979 Code: 013415 Code: 012967 Code: 012964 The seizure of Rome and its annexation to the Kingdom of Italy in 1870 was considered an act of ignominy by the Church. It was a wound that looked like it would never heal: the world had offended the Pope and the Pope had retired himself from the world. Pius XI broke this traditional seclusion when on 6th February 1922 he stood before the crowd on the great balcony in St. Peter’s Square and gave the Urbi et Orbi blessing. Thus began a new era for the Catholic Church. This documentary is the story of the long tradition of athletics and many other sports that were practised in the city of Turin since March 17th 1844, when the Royal Society of Gymnastics was established. The documentary clearly describes how modern Italian sports owe their origins to that embryonic institution centred in the city of Turin. From the first cycling race (1876), to the first Formula 1 race (1946) and the first Italian Football Championship (1898), Turin has moulded, through pioneering spirit and innovation, the whole of Italian sport. Munich 1972, the Olympic Games. Under an atmosphere of global reconciliation, terrorist assassins infiltrate the Olympic Village, killing 11 athletes of the Israeli Olympic team. Israeli secret agents compile a complex mission of retribution. When the terrorists target the Israeli Olympic squad, and cause their death in the course of the negotiation, PM Golda Meir orders retribution. This is the story of Israel's revenge. On July 7th, 1981, on a late afternoon, a squadron of F-16 fighter jets takes off from its base somewhere in Israel's Negev Desert. 90 minutes later and 1000 kilometres away, the nearly operational Iraqi nuclear reactor in Osirak is destroyed. 1972. With their nuclear program up and running, the Iraqi government signs a secret agreement with the French and Italian governments for the supply of parts and materials required for the construction of two experimental reactors. Stefano Rizzelli Enrico Verra Nissim Mossek Nissim Mossek Director Polivideo, Rai Educational, Focus Storia co-production Associazione Cinema, Sport-Orsino Produzione Set Production Set Production Produced by Digital Beta PAL 60’ Italian, English subtitles 2006 Digital Beta PAL 60’ Italian, English subtitles 2006 Beta SP 52’ English 2006 Beta SP 52’ English 2006 Support Length Language Year Urbi et Orbi - Popes: Images and Words to Remember Urbi et Orbi Turin: A city on the run 7 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 8 History-Civilization 8 Operation Entebbe: The Israeli battle with airborne terrorism Operazione Entebbe 1968: Utopia of reality Italy and Islam Adolf Hitler’s visit to Italy 1968: L' utopia della realtà Italia e Islam Il viaggio del Führer in Italia Code: 012963 Code: 017521 Code: 017527 Code: 017531 International Terror groups see air travel as the soft belly of the technologically superior West, the epitome of capitalistic takeover. They are ready to harness the technology, riding it into oblivion, with a few hundred innocent people on board. The fragile operation of getting every flight safely on time, becomes a tempting breach of small groups with little means and great determination. They are to change air travel forever. June 27th 1976 the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Baader-Meinhoff Brigades hijack... The documentary deals with events and contradictions which signed a specific period of time but involved the whole world. A «new Illuminism» in its cultural and philosophical roots, an attempt to destroy political settings and institutions, a revolt of the «New Left» and some other things together. Intellectuals, artists, sociologists and theologians too, they all discussed about this phenomenon and this discussion still continues nowadays. In the 20th century the relations between Italy and the Islamic world have always been very close, even through the political changes which, beginning from the Libyan War in 1911, followed one another. The Fascism policy, decidedly pro-Arab and antiBritish, ended up in the close ties that united the Republican governments with the most important Arab States; the activity carried on by Mattei, in contrast with the policy of the major oil companies of that time, and the other main events which signed the relationship between Italy and Islam. When Hitler came in Italy for his first time in may 1938 there was a week of great celebrations, the greater ones Italians have never seen. This event was impressed in our collective memory. Then, public opinion realised that the relationship between Mussolini and the Führer was firmed. In that time their two dictatorships came up. The history was reconstructed by a long and careful research in the Historical Archive of the Istituto Luce, revealing its most awkward aspect and backstage. Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani Renato Besana Piero Melograni Istituto Luce Istituto Luce, Croce del Sud Istituto Luce Digital Beta 90’ Italian, English subtitles 2005 Digital Beta 55’ Italian, English subtitles 2005 Digital Beta 55’ Italian, English subtitles 2005 Director Nissim Mossek Produced by Set Production Support Length Language Year Beta SP 52’ English 2006 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 9 History-Civilization Russia from the Romanov to Stalin La Russia dai Romanov a Stalin Italian wings The arch of Constantine Ali italiane Arco di Costantino Code: 017533 Code: 017535 Code: 017537 Code: 013175 A charming story that goes from the very sad and faded images of the last Romanov through the rise to power of the Bolsheviks, the Revolutionaries of the early hours, the civil war, the peasants insurrections as reaction to their state of serfdom, huge development plans, deportations and the 1939’s purges. Then it comes the moment of the dreadful campaign against Hitler, which makes Russians winners thanks to their heroism, sacrifices and incredible organization. For almost one hundred years, from the flight of Mario Calderara, the first Italian pilot, to the extraordinary Eurofighter, the European plane of the third millennium, men and machines have made «Italian wings» famous all over the world. This is the engrossing telling of a story that starts one misty morning in 1909 on the outskirts of Rome, on the field of Centocelle, and unwinds through the entire twentieth century amidst enterprises, failures, records and wars. The Arch of Constantine is one of the fundamental monuments of the Roman world. The film provides a detailed analysis of the history of this monument and its role in the city’s life. It goes on describing the long and delicate work carried out by a team of experts to restore the structures and their precious bas-reliefs. For most of us, Malaysia is a fantastical land of pirates, tiger hunts and precious pearls. A world leader in the export of semiconductors and electronic components: that is one way to describe today’s Malaysia, thanks to the dramatic changes brought about by leader Mahatir Mohammad, who has transformed a primarily agricultural nation into an economic power. Leonardo Tiberi Leonardo Tiberi Leonardo Tiberi Director Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Fenice Cinematografica Francesco Patierno, Luca Cambi, Andrea Patierno Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana Digital Beta 90’ Italian 2005 Digital Beta 75’ Italian 2005 Digital Beta 25’ Italian, English subtitles 2005 Beta SP PAL 2x50’ Italian 2005 Support Length Language Year Once upon a time: The damnation malesian pirates C’era una volta: Pirati della Malesia 9 Produced by History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 10 History-Civilization 10 Battlefield tour: The assault on the gothic line La memoria sopravvissuta: Assalto alla Linea Gotica Battlefield tour: Defeat of the Don La memoria sopravvissuta: La sconfitta del Don Battlefield tour: Montecassino La memoria sopravvissuta: Montecassino Battlefield tour: The Anzio landing La memoria sopravvissuta: Lo sbarco di Anzio Code: 013003 Code: 013001 Code: 012999 Code: 012997 Summer of 1944. As the armies of Nazi Germany are facing inevitable defeat with the Allied landings in Normandy and the relentless advance of the Red Army on the Eastern Front, one man alone, Winston Churchill, is obsessed with what now appears to be a secondary theatre in the war, Italy. To the British Prime Minister, the control of the Mediterranean and the Balcans is of utmost importance if the balance of power is to remain favourable to the western powers after the fall of Adolf Hitler: the sphere of communist influence needs to be kept as far as possible from the heart of Europe. November 1942, Southern Russia. Along an incredibly vast frontline German and Italian soldiers stand together. They are young men in their twenties, born under Fascism and Nazism, dragged by Hitler and Mussolini into the most senseless and mad operation of the entire war: the invasion of the Soviet Union. At the root of the tragic defeat in Russia, Hitler's megalomaniac plan of taking control of the oil fields in the Caucasus and the debacle of the German 6th army in Stalingrad. Monte Cassino. In 1944 one of the most epic and tragic battles was taking place at the foot of the centuries-old Benedictine abbey. In order to dominate the series of hills dominating the only road to Rome, the Allies launched four massive, yet senseless, frontal attacks sending men from countless nations to their deaths. Defending the heights of Cassino, crack troops of the German Wehrmacht: the paratroopers. Sixty years later, seven of these have agreed to return with us on this Battlefield Tour and to tell us their frightful stories. January 1944. British and American troops land in Anzio, a small seaside resort only sixty kilometres from Rome. The Allied objective is to break the stalemate at Cassino and to capture the Eternal City. The Germans, on the other hand, have mustered all troops available, from France to the Balkans, to push the invaders back into the sea. Four of these men have returned with us to the now-peaceful countryside around Anzio where they left their youth, their comrades and their most painful memories. Angelo Rossetti Angelo Rossetti Angelo Rossetti Polivideo, Istituto Luce Polivideo, Istituto Luce Polivideo, Istituto Luce Beta SP PAL 52’ English 2005 Beta SP PAL 52’ English 2005 Beta SP PAL 52’ English 2005 Director Angelo Rossetti Produced by Polivideo, Istituto Luce Support Length Language Year Beta SP PAL 52’ English 2005 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 11 History-Civilization Atlantics (the) Una strana vacanza Guglielmo Marconi: The wave wizard Marconi, il mago delle onde Code: 012378 Code: 011867 Code: 017529 Code: 017539 History, celebrity, culture, fashion,trends, events, music, cinema, cuisine, clubs, theaters and much more: a journey back across an entire century, from the dawn of the Twentieth century to the present. "Versilia 8 1/2" is not just a tour through an artistic heritage we all know so well, with its myriad of attractions and facilities for the traveler; it's also a backward glance at a strip of land, Versilia, whose transformation mirrored that of an entire nation, and often anticipated it. And still does. Denys Simmons and George Hervey-Murray tell the story of how they escaped from a train transporting them from an Italian POW camp in Sulmona to Germany after the Italian Armistice of September 8th 1943, when the Italian Armed Forces disbanded and their former allies, the Germans, suddenly turned enemy. Denys and George return to Meta, the small isolated village in the mountains where they had spent about three weeks in 1943, George for the first time after sixty years. A documentary film on Guglielmo Marconi’s youth and the major modern applications originating from his experiments. Marconi’s early notebooks, recently discovered, provide a new interpretation of his personality, underlining the international and cosmopolitan stature, especially in relation to the most recent discoveries and technological applications in different fields of scientific research. In July 1, 1933, twenty-five seaplanes take off from Orbetello flyingboat station heading for New York. Main characters of this event are «the Atlantics», one hundred eleven exceptional men under Marshal Italo Balbo’s command. The film tells minute by minute all tensions, the joy and the final triumph that those men live while they fly over Europe, North Sea and Greenland, always in perfect formation. Luca Gianfrancesco Franco Brogi Taviani Alessandro Giupponi Leonardo Tiberi Director Movieweb Spa, Istituto Luce Tierrepi sas Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Produced by Beta SP PAL 57’ Italian, English 2005 Beta SP PAL 58’ Italian, English subtitles 2005 Digital Beta 60’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Digital Beta 80’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Support Length Language Year Versilia 8 1/2 a state of mind Versilia 8 1/2 Strage holiday (a) Gli Atlantici 11 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 12 History-Civilization Ethiopia 1936. The birth of the Italian Empire Etiopia 1936: Alla conquista dell'Impero Anam, the one with no name Spagna 1936/39 La guerra civile Nemi, the mystery at the bottom of the lake Nemi, il mistero sommerso del lago Code: 017541 Code: 017543 Code: 017545 Code: 014582 The Spanish War, fought from 1936 to 1939, was one of the bloodiest events of the Twenty Century. It’s considered today as the prologue, in the hearth of Europe, of World War II. In fact, behind the warring factions, the Republicans of the legitimate government and the insurgent Nationalist, led by General Francisco Franco, the future adversaries of the world conflict take sides: on the one side Stalin’s URSS and the volunteers of the International Brigades, on the other, the Axis Powers, led by Hitler and Mussolini. Near Rome there is a little volcanic lake which takes its name from the town of Nemi. The charm of this spot would hardly lead one to think that the waters of the lake concealed a great mystery; since time immemorial, the locals recalled that the remains of two large vessels lay hidden at the bottom of the lake. Yet no historical texts tell of the existence of ships on the lake in Nemi. Was this really the historical memory of the populace, or was it merely a legend? The ships were found in 1446, but only in the 1920s, they were finally recovered, using an extremely complex process: the lake was drained! The hulls of two gigantic vessels emerged: 70 metres in length and over 25 metres across. With a great gathering in Piazza Venezia, on October 2, 1935, Mussolini announces the start of the military operations on the Ethiopian Plateau. At dawn the next day Italian troops cross the Mareb River, the boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia, and begin their march on Abyssinian territory, heading toward the capital city. Thus begins the War of Ethiopia, which will end eight months later, in early May 1936, with the capture of Addis Abeba and the proclamation of the Italian Empire. In this interview, filmed only two months before his death, Terzani describes how he first placed himself in the hands of western medicine to treat his cancer. Then he decides to travel through different and far away countries and civilizations, looking for a cure for his cancer and for insight. This final journey is described in a moving and highly respected book which was published in Germany in 2005 under the title "Noch eine Runde auf dem Karussel" (Another Round on the Carousel). Terzani was one of the great figures of European journalism: he spent almost forty years in Asia, studied Sinology, and as a correspondent for Hamburg's "Der Spiegel", the Italian "Corriere della Sera", and "La Repubblica". Massimo My Leonardo Tiberi Mario Zanot Massimo My E.D.I. – Mymax Edutainment Istituto Luce RTI, Storyteller Digital Beta 52’ Italian, English 2004 Digital Beta 50’ Italian 2004 Beta SP PAL 54’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Spanish war (the) 12 Director Leonardo Tiberi Produced by Istituto Luce Support Length Language Year Digital Beta 105’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Anam il senzanome History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 13 History-Civilization Vietnam syndrome That September in Italy 'Maestro' vs. the Dictator (the) Godfathers Sindrome del Vietnam Settembre italiano Maestro e dittatore Padrini Code: 011276 Code: 011266 Code: 010962 Code: 007944 It was probably the war we've seen the most of, filmed from every angle with exceptional technique, for that time; yet it was also, perhaps, the last war to be so public. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were slow to understand the boomerang effect of all those war scenes, captured on film by military cameramen, on American public opinion, first, and then on the rest of the world. Thirty years later, a TG1 special retells the tale of the only war the United States ever lost, and provides a clearheaded analysis of that war while the U.S. is embroiled in another one in Iraq. With the armistice on 8 September 1943, sixty years ago, for Italy came not the end but the dawn of one of the most dramatic and difficult times in its history. The war was still going on; the king was in flight, the Italian army disbanded in a nation cut in two, even geographically, with the German occupation and the founding of the Republic of Salò."That September in Italy", Roberto Olla's TG1 special, brings those terrible days to life, in films of the war released only now and in interviews with eyewitnesses. With the fall of the regime on 25 July 1943, Fascism in Italy came to an end. Sixty years later, this TG1 special revisits that chapter in history with scenes from those tumultuous days, especially the epic clash between Arturo Toscanini and Benito Mussolini. It was a clash that lasted over twenty years, and culminated in the "dirty deed" committed in Bologna, when the great conductor was beaten to a pulp by a Fascist action squad because he wouldn't perform "Giovinezza". The TG1 special's historical reconstruction is made contemporary by an interview with Lorin Maazel, heir to Toscanini in New York and conductor of Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Orchestra. A global view of the criminal phenomenon known as "Cosa Nostra". "Godfathers" offers a panoramic look at the history of Mafia, starting with the mass emigration of Italians to the U.S. at the end of the 19th century, and leading up to the arrests that took place in 2000 on the New York Stock Exchange. The beginning of the story coincides with the nascent forms of cinema. "Godfathers" tells a captivating story that borders on classic cinema and is made possible by the tools of the 20th century: original recordings of everyday life. Roberto Olla Roberto Olla Roberto Olla Roberto Olla Director RAIUNO TG Special RAIUNO TG Special RAIUNO TG Special Rai Tre, Rai Trade Produced by Beta SP PAL 1x50’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Beta SP PAL 1x50’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Beta SP PAL 1x50’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Beta SP PAL 2x100’ Italian, English subtitles 2004 Support Length Language Year 13 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 14 History-Civilization 14 Trieste torment The marble Empire Bellissime Trieste sotto L’Impero di marmo Code: 017549 Code: 017561 Code: 017563 Code: 009772 It tells the great adventure of women who, during the Twentieth Century, have redesigned their image and role in family and society. It’s a video, a «spot» covering one hundred years, whose aim is to join l’air du temps with the time changing, which forces us to change. The years from 1943 to 1954 are crucial for European history and Trieste is an actual hot spot in international interests and conflicts. In these years in the city are working more than fifteen secret service agencies. With the help of the historical facts narrated in this documentary, it is possible to understand many of the recent events and facts that determined the present geo-politic situation in the Balcanic area. The story of marble told in digital version: its triumphs from the first to the third century A.D., its long silence and its rediscovery which inspired a new era of beauty. A strictly scientific film, inspired by the book Marmora Romana by Raniero Gnoli, which explores the world of the present and past «marble empire». Exaltation of the divine regality of Emperors, portraits of lovely women, warriors, slaves, mythical beings and golden divinities with precious inlays. In a coup on March 24, 1976, a military junta seized power in Argentina and went on a campaign to wipe out left wing terrorism with terror far worse than the one they were combating. Between 1976 and 1983 - under military rule thousands of people, most of them dissidents and innocent civilians unconnected with terrorism, were arrested and then vanished without a trace. Marino and Mario Maranzana Koiné, Istituto Luce Folco Quilici A. Castiglione, A. Maldonado A. Castiglione, A. Maldonado Digital Beta 154’ Italian 2003 Digital Beta 58’ Italian 2003 Director Giovanna Gagliardo Produced by Istituto Luce Support Length Language Year Memoria y la historia: Argentina (la) La memoria e la storia: Argentina Simply Beautiful Digital Beta 124’ Italian, English subtitles 2003 Istituto Luce Beta SP PAL 30’ Spanish 2003 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 15 History-Civilization Edda Ciano, Mussolini’s daughter I Ciano The First World War in Italy Code: 017567 Code: 017569 Code: 017571 1948. The Russians isolate Berlin from the rest of the world and the Western allies are forced to supply the city with a massive airlift that goes down in history. A new conflict, the Cold War, has begun. In 1961 a wall is built in Berlin and countless people try to pass it and escape. The authors Francesco and Marcello Villari tell the events that marked forty-five years of German and world history. Mussolini’s elder daughter, Edda, and the scion of a noble Leghorn family, Galeazzo Ciano, got married in Rome on April 24, 1930. Then, it begins a love story which will get a lot of space in magazines and newsreels. Those images tell both their private lives and the happenings of the great history. Africa, Spain, the partnership with Nazi Germany, until the World War and the fall of Fascism. An extraordinary record of the Great War: thousands of faces, known and unknown people, the 18-years-old 99 boys at the front line, their agitation before the assaults, desperation and fatigue, the victors’ joy and the prisoners’ dejection. Francesco and Marcello Villari Leonardo Tiberi Roberto Omegna Director Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Produced by Digital Beta 50’ Italian 2002 Digital Beta 90’ Italian 2001 Digital Beta 110’ Italian 2001 Support Length Language Year Italians’ war (the) Cold War: The Iron Curtain La guerra degli italiani La guerra fredda: Europa dalla cortina di ferro al crollo dell'URSS Code: 017565 The World War II and the years’ monthly events narrated by Istituto Luce’s renowned newsreels. The ruins, the physical and moral injuries of a country devastated by bombings, hardship, foreign occupation and Civil War. Awards: Italian DVD Award (2006) Leonardo Tiberi and Piero Melograni La prima guerra mondiale in Italia 15 Istituto Luce Digital Beta 7x50’ Italian, English subtitles 2002 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 16 History-Civilization Pompeii and the daily life of the Romans Pompei e la vita quotidiana dei Romani History of 20th century Italy Chapter I Storia d’Italia: Cap. I History of 20th century Italy Chapter II Storia d’Italia: Cap. II Code: 007624 Code: 017575 Code: 017595 Code: 017593 A seven part underground journey to the Roman Empire, reporting on the latest archaeological findings of Rome itself, but also on its mysterious predecessors, the Etruscan, its local allies, its flowering at Pompeii and traces at Naples, as well as its far flung outposts. Episode titles: The Incredible Etruscans, Secret Naples, The Imperial For A, The Colosseum and The Gladiators, Norba a Roman City From the 1st Century, At The Edge Of The Roman Empire, Pompeii Felix An extraordinary tour of Pompeii, the Roman city buried by the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 a.d. The tour guide is a digitalized make-believe inhabitant of the city. The houses, roads, works of art and furnishings provide the stage to Pompeii’s final hours before the catastrophe. From the unification of Italy to the Giolittian Era The Giolittian era and the Great War • From the unification of Italy to the new century • The start of the industrial era and social changes • The problem of nation identity • The Belle Époque • Education and literature in the new Italy • The new liberal line: Giolitti between Socialists and Roman Catholics • Developments, contradiction and crises under Giolitti • State and society in the Giolittian era • Culture, politics and religion • From Adowa to intervention • Italy at war: from intervention to Caporetto • Italy at war: from the Piave to Vittorio Veneto Luigi Costantini Folco Quilici Folco Quilici Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Digital Beta 55’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Digital Beta 184’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Digital Beta 166’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Echoes from the past 16 Mondi lontani Director Aldo Zappalà Produced by Village Support Length Language Year Beta SP PAL 7x30’ Italian, English subt. for screening 2001 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 17 History-Civilization History of 20th century Italy Chapter III Storia d’Italia: Cap. III History of 20th century Italy Chapter IV Storia d’Italia: Cap. IV History of 20th century Italy Chapter V Storia d’Italia: Cap. V History of 20th century Italy Chapter VI Storia d’Italia: Cap. VI Code: 017591 Code: 017589 Code: 017587 Code: 017587 From the Great War to the advent of Fascism The Fascist Regime Fascist Italy Fascist foreign policy and the War • The myth of the Great War • Women and the civilian mobilization • The blighted victory • The impossible revolution • Economic recession • Fascist reaction and the crisis of the liberal state • Mussolini: the early years • Fascism in power • The Matteotti crisis and the Aventine secession • The creation of the totalitarian state • The banker and entrepreneur state • Social policy • The Church and Fascism • Anti-fascist and the exiles • Intellectual and Fascism • Fascist «modernization» • Italians under the shadows of Fascism • Mass-produced consensus • Foreign policy under Fascism • A place in the sun • Fascism and Nazism • From non-belligerence to intervention • From the parallel war to the German war • A country at war Folco Quilici Folco Quilici Folco Quilici Folco Quilici Director Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Produced by Digital Beta 169’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Digital Beta 174’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Digital Beta 192’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Digital Beta 199’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Support Length Language Year 17 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 18 History-Civilization History of 20th century Italy Chapter VII Storia d’Italia: Cap. VII History of 20th century Italy Chapter VIII Storia d’Italia: Cap. VIII History of 20th century Italy Chapter IX Storia d’Italia: Cap. IX History of 20th century Italy Chapter X Storia d’Italia: Cap. X Code: 017583 Code: 017581 Code: 017579 Code: 017595 From the fall of the Fascist regime to the Republic The Republic’s early years A changing society From the Seventies to today • Reconstruction • Constitutional agreement and political ruptures • The economic miracle • North and South • De Gasperi’s centrism • The Church from Pio XII to Giovanni XXIII • Culture amid ideologies and social transformations • From the alliance with the West to neoatlantism • Italy and the European Community • The crisis of centrism • Politics and society in the Sixties • New economic models • Italy and Europe • National identity • Terrorism and national solidarity • After Moro: the party crisis • The end of a political system • The metamorphosis of society Director Folco Quilici Folco Quilici Folco Quilici Folco Quilici Produced by Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Istituto Luce Digital Beta 180’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Digital Beta 186’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 Digital Beta 192’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 18 • From July 25 to September 8, 1943 • Defeat: a humiliated nation • Salò and the civil war • Allies, Resistance, Liberation • Death and rebirth of the nation • From the Monarchy to the Republic Support Length Language Year Digital Beta 167’ Italian, English subtitles 2000 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 19 History-Civilization Silence on trial: The Mattei case Caso Mattei Synagogues the jews of Piedmont Sinagoghe Alexander Dubcek: Roots of the future Alexander Dubcek: Radici del futuro Journey to the Etruscan places Viaggio nei luoghi etruschi Code: 008577 Code: 004526 Code: 002545 Code: 017547 Enrico Mattei (1906-1962), founder and first president of the Italian state energy company ENI, was celebrated during his lifetime as "the most powerful Italian since Augustus." He provided his resource-poor country with cheap crude oil and gas through aggressive negotiating with the Anglo-American oil cartels, and therewith laid the groundwork for the Italian economic revitalization of the 60s. During the climax of the Cuban crisis in October 1962, and as the Cold War threatened to become the Third World War, the ENI company jet crashed near Milan. The 3 people on board - Enrico Mattei, the pilot and an American journalist - died in the crash. The series retraces the steps of the Jews history. It is believed that the Jewish community in Piedmont was founded following its banishment from Spain in 1492. Only a small number managed to hide or emigrate, and even fewer survived the horror of the death camps. But their memories are an important heritage which must be defended with the utmost respect. “When they came back, from the States, in 1921, everything was changed: Austria-Hungary didn't exist anymore, they were citizens of the United States; their old native country was now a part of four new European States, rosen from the war” Following the steps of English writer D. H. Lawrence’s travel in the year 1927, Lea Massari leads us to discover the wonderful history of Etruscan civilization, beginning from the starting of the first civil organization forms, describing their spiritual and religious life, their artistical expressions, their private and political lives, their last flourishing and their decadence. Bernhard Pfletschinger and Claus Bredenbrock Daniele Segre Alessandro Giupponi Cristina Nuzzi Director Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana Slovenska Televizia, Primex srl, Cristaldi Pictures Istituto Luce Produced by Beta SP PAL 53’ Italian, English subtitles 1999 Beta SP PAL 88’ Italian, English subtitles 1999 Digital Beta 3x50’ Italian, English subtitles 1998 Support Length Language Year Lichtfilm, Wolfgang Bergmann Beta SP PAL 60’ German, English subtitles 2000 19 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 20 History-Civilization 20 Le stagioni dell'aquila River Nile and its twin brother (the) Il Nilo e il suo gemello Code: 002369 Code: 017551 Code: 003908 All the stages of his troubled existence have been considered, from his birth and youth in Argentina to the revolution and his international political career in Cuba, to his death in a Bolivian village. Many aspects of his humanity and private life are also examined. The first seventy years of activity of Istituto Luce, the historical institute founded in 1924 with the task of creating educational and scientific short reels. Succesfully presented to Venice Festival in 1997, Le Stagioni dell’Aquila makes everyone run over the happy and dramatic situations of our country’s recent past again, in an evocative and fascinating way. The doc shows the greatest hydraulic engineering project of all time, the cloning of the Nile. The report is followed by a debate; in the preview, are shown several kilometres of the new canal and several moments of navigation on the old Nile, with broad historical and mythological references to legends and the Scriptures. Luca Massari Giuliano Montaldo Valerio Nataletti Erre Emme, Editorial Abril, Etabeta Istituto Luce Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, TG1 Beta SP PAL 60’ Italian, Spanish, English subt. 1998 Digital Beta 88’ Italian, English subtitles 1997 Beta SP PAL 45’ Italian, English subtitles 1997 Sea traders: The Cabotos and the New World Caboto Ernesto Che Guevara Code: 004105 The documentary narrates the development of sea trading: its origins, the art of seafaring in the Mediterranean and over the expanses of the ocean. It illustrates the quest for new westward routes to the Indies, on the trails of Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus. Director Gianfranco Bernabei Produced by Rai International and G.B. Produzioni with support of the Lazio Regional Authority Support Beta SP PAL Length 60’ Language English commentary Year 1998 Years of the Eagle (the) History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 21 History-Civilization R.S.I. The Italian Social Republic R.S.I. La Repubblica Sociale Italiana Last 600 days of Salò Code: 002323 Code: 017555 Code: 001370 A series of five episodes, each one dedicated to a great personality of motor racing. The history of Formula 1 and Ferrari's rivalry with other great sports and racing car manufacturers forms the background of their stories. The Italian Social Republic was created in September 1943, after the armistice signed with the Allies and Mussolini’s release, with the aim of continuing the policy of Fascism.The headquarter of the new Republic was in Salò, along the shores of Lake Garda, and its political centre was in Verona, where the Republican Fascist Party was restored. With the aim of going back to its original sense and to get the approval of people, the Republic of Salò fell into the hands of Germans and it disappeared in April 1945 with the end of the war in Italy. “The Last 600 days of Salò” is a documentary, that recreates the atmosphere in Italy under Fascism. It is based on the most painstaking research in Italian and foreign archives, and uses thousands of metres of film shot by Istituto Luce. Carlo Corbucci Angelo Grimaldi N. Caracciolo, V. Marino Director Video 3 Istituto Luce Rai Tre Produced by Beta SP PAL 5x26’ English 1995 Digital Beta 95’ Italian 1992 Beta SP PAL 60’ Italian, English subtitles 1991 Support Length Language Year Over the limit Oltre il traguardo 21 Gli ultimi 600 giorni di Salò Code: 017553 1990 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 22 History-Civilization Italy after the war 22 Succede un 48 Flood of Florence by Franco Zeffirelli (the) L'alluvione di Firenze di Franco Zeffirelli 1960 Rome Olympic Games Olimpiadi di Roma 1960 Code: 001183 Code: 010568 Code: 014755 Code: 017557 The film documentary “Italy after the war”, wholly made using archive material (1945-1948) from Istituto Luce, recounts the birth of the First Republic, and the way in which Italians reacted to the havoc of the war. A great deal of the film is taken up with day-today life and the problems of ordinary people, the hopes and the plans for the reconstruction of a nation after so many massacres and so much destruction. China invited Antonioni to film in the country, to visit and film in specific areas: Beijing; Linxian County; Jiangsu; Shanghai; Suzhou. During his five week stay Antonioni says that "We have just wanted to get a picture of China, we can't offer more". China Chung Kuo is an important document about China's social, cultural and human daily life history during the 70's. The Flood of Florence of 1966 seen through the eyes of the great director Franco Zeffirelli. "On November 4, 1966, in Florence the Arno river swollen with dark, muddy waters, spilled over sweeping away everything in its way. When the waters subsided, only destruction enveloped the city." August, 1960. In the middle of the economic boom the XVII Olympic Games are opened in Rome. There are 5000 athletes competing and the Italian Team conquers 13 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 13 bronze medals. Istituto Luce realizes the official film of the event, with a magnificent producing effort, and with this work it achieves success all over the world and a nomination to the 1961 Academy Awards edition. Michelangelo Antonioni Franco Zeffirelli R. Marcellini Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana Istituto Luce Beta SP PAL 3x80’ Italian 1972 Beta SP PAL 50’ Italian, English subtitles 1966 HD 124’ Italian, English, French, Spanish 1960 Director Nicola Caracciolo and Valerio Marino Produced by Rai Tre Support Length Language Year China Chung Kuo Beta SP PAL 87’ Italian, English subtitles 1987 History-civization 29-09-2008 11:52 Pagina 23 History-Civilization 1956 Winter Olympic Games 1956 Giochi invernali a Cortina 23 Code: 017559 A collection of new movies and documents about the Winter Olympics of 1956, the first ones in Italy. “White vertigo”, the official film of the Olympic Games of Cortina; “Newsreels”, eight specials which document unforgettable moments, celebrities and great happenings which characterized those days. “World Championship of Alpine ski”, a new document about the Winter Games of Cortina in 1914, up till now remembered as “the Olympics of the allies”. Giorgio Ferroni Director Istituto Luce Produced by Digital Beta 90’ Italian, English, French, Spanish 1956 Support Length Language Year