Gianni Amico

Bahia de Todos os Sambas (1996)

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of t ...

Gramsci l'ho visto così (1988)

Amici (1987)

An Italian movie. ...

Morandi e il suo tempo (1986)

Diario di Manarola. Appunti per un film sull'esperienza di Telemaco Signorini alle cinque terre (1985)

Made for the Liguria program: 90 years of cinema. The precious superimposition of two diaries: the personal one, written and filmed by the director and his companions of moments lived in Manarola, and that of Telemaco Signorini, an artist focused on the Ci ...

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party. ...

Io con te non ci sto più (1983)

Gabriela (1983)

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels. ...

Le mani svelte: Giovani, donne, fabbriche (1981)

A documentary about the reality of the factory in Turin, with interviews with workers, women, young and old. The arrival of immigrants, the sacrifices, the search for a job, the reactions of young people to their impact with the factory, conflicts between ...

Le mani svelte: Giovani, donne, fabbrica (1981)

Lo specchio rovesciato. Un'esperienza di autogestione operaia (1981)

The history of the activities of the Culmv (Compagnia Unica dei Lavoratori Merci Varie) in the Port of Genoa, spanning from the 14th century to the present day. The documentary is structured in three parts: "Caravana e Camalli," "Compagnia Unica Lavoratori ...

Elective Affinities (1978)

A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel. ...

Dedicato ai genitori (1977)

Le cinque stagioni (1976)

Le cinque stagioni is a four-part television drama directed by Gianni Amico and broadcast by RAI in 1976. Set in a retirement home, the film studies components, manias, small and large dramas of retirees. ...

Your Love is like the Sea - Per una generazione di americani (1976)

Sardegna, una voce (Maria Carta) (1975)

Il registratore (1975)

The restlessness creeps into a claustrophobic situation where a typist confronts the recorded voice of the writer she works for. ...

Città e territorio: Bologna ieri e oggi (1974)

L'inchiesta (1971)

The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric clinic. Not a simple Italian thriller but a "Russian doll", an open story with different levels of reading ...

The Lion Has Seven Heads (1971)

A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marc ...

Wind from the East (1970)

A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema. ...

Cinema della realtà (1969)

Neorealism in cinema through the memories, reconsiderations and regrets of those who contributed to creating it and making it vital that season. From the return to the changed set of Rome, open city to the interview with Pasolini on the set of Uccellacci e ...

Tropico (1969)

A family of Brazilian farmers is desperately looking for work and moves from city to city. ...

On Borrowed Time (1968)

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one. ...

Partner (1968)

The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams. ...

Aí Vem o Samba (1968)

A film by italian filmmaker Gianni Amico. ...

Giovani brasiliani (1967)

Notes for a Film on Jazz (1965)

Documentary filmed during the 1965 International Jazz Festival in Bologna, featuring appearances by musicians such as Gato Barbieri, Don Cherry, and Mal Waldron. ...

Before the Revolution (1964)

As Fabrizio contemplates joining the Communist Party, he breaks off his planned marriage to a bourgeois woman and becomes incestuously involved with his alluring aunt. ...

Noi insistiamo! Suite per la libertà subito (1964)

Short film about racism in the US. ...

Marco Melani: The Man with the Golden Eye (2021)

"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with cinema and television personalities, fragments of films, ...

Glauber, Claro (2020)

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views. ...

Bahia de Todos os Sambas (1996)

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of t ...

Talking Cinema (1986)

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts. ...

The Conformist (1971)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. ...

Può la forza d'un sorriso (1968)

During the 1968 Pesaro Festival, animated by the intervention of the students, riots occurred caused by fascist provocations and the usual police brutality. Following clashes culminating in the arrest of several Festival participants, there was a general a ...

Before the Revolution (1964)

As Fabrizio contemplates joining the Communist Party, he breaks off his planned marriage to a bourgeois woman and becomes incestuously involved with his alluring aunt. ...