Italo Calvino

The Prince’s Voyage (2019)

The philosophical tale revolves around an elderly monkey prince who wakes up injured and disoriented in an environment he does not recognise. He navigates this new urban world with the support of a young monkey called Tom. ...

The North Wind's Gift (2018)

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord. ...

The Man Who Came Out Only at Night (2013)

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding night. ...

The Ogre's Feathers (2012)

A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king. ...

A Monkey's Tale (1999)

Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. ...

Ein Bett mit Passagieren (1984)

Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel. Based on a story by Italo Calvino. ...

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria (1973)

Documentary. ...

The Nonexistent Knight (1969)

Agilulfo is a righteous, perfectionist, faithful and pious knight with only one shortcoming: he doesn't exist. Inside his empty armor is an echoing voice that reverberates through the metal. Nevertheless, he serves the army of a Christian king out of goodw ...

Sex Can Be Difficult (1962)

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wron ...

Tiko and the Shark (1962)

Filmed in French Polynesia with a Hawaiian cast, the story revolves around the adventures and romances of a young Polynesian boy as he grows up. As a child he raises and trains a baby shark as a pet, which he shares with his island playmate Diana. After a ...

Boccaccio '70 (1962)

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public aff ...

The Writer in the Trees (2023)

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Arch ...