Jonas, the lord of the manor, and Ahti the Finn have been close friends for years. When Jonas's sister is attacked by a gypsy, Jonas and Ahti come to her aid, and the gypsy is badly beaten. Soon after...
Cesarina Rupert, a modern day Messalina, is Claudio’s wife, a patriot and a brilliant inventor of war vehicles for France. Between personal drama and spy intrigues, this mismatched couple is d...
Guazzoni, in putting on this sensational work must have encountered many difficulties. However, he overcame them brilliantly. He presents the episodes and vicissitudes which characterise the liv...
The making of patriotic films was not rare among FAI productions, and "Il bacio della gloria" is one example, together with "Armi e amori" (1913) and "Per la Patria!" (1915). “In the Speech fr...
Claire is the beautiful daughter of the director of the steelworks. Revolutionaries storm the director's estate during a strike, and the director is killed. Worker Albert Fjeld remembers that Claire h...
Young Espen has been wrongfully accused of a theft at school. Worried that no one will believe him, he runs away from home, boards a ship and experiences many adventures. When he later escapes the clu...
Young hairdresser Elisabeth Borg wins the lottery and treats herself to an Easter holiday at a mountain resort. Here she is subjected to the advances of a sly deadbeat, but is rescued by-and becomes e...
An uproarious comic, in which a novel duel by shrapnel is seen, the shells being strapped on the back of each combatant and hammers provided. The two have a most exciting time. Some clever trick...
Hans-Werner Meyer (second from right), August Zirner (right) in "Contergan" (2007)
Alexander Korda
Brian McClatchy while shooting "Tagebuch einer Biene" (2020)
"Dark Eden - Der Albtraum vom Erdöl" (2018)
Filmplakat
Werner Peters
Freddy Quinn
Klaus Dierig, Kai Taschner (v.l.n.r.)
The life of the philosopher Antonio Rosmini in the historical, political and cultural dimensions of the Risorgimento.
The history and life of the military corps the Grenadiers of Sardinia.
The work and the life of the writer Giovanni Boine.
The emergency reconstruction after the 1915 earthquake is still the core of many villages of the Marsica area (in Abruzzo). This documentary is about the villages hit by the earthquake in their ...
At the end of the Second World War politicians including Alcide De Gasperi, Jean Monnet, Paul Henri Spaak, Robert Schumann, Konrad Adenauer fought a tough battle for European unity. The end of c...
This film is also known by the title "L’ipocrita smascherato". In respect to other FAI films, it contains quite an innovative scene, in which the loan shark is on a train, looking out the wind...
A short film about the painter Gino Rossi: his life, art, struggle against the academies, conformity and middle class duplicity. His dissent is unyielding, his life complete freedom, but he ends...
The life of the parish priest don Giovanni Minzoni is reconstructed from adolescence to adulthood, from pastoral mission to extreme sacrifice. The film visits the places of his youth in his home...