Silvano Agosti

Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life (2018)

"A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions". This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with ...

Il fascino dell'impossibile (2016)

Le quattro stagioni (2006)

La ragion pura (2001)

A married couple lives for fifteen years in the desert of marriage in an unnatural sentimental existence. Then the question of an abortion arises. The absence of a reciprocal desire causes a heavy and untrue behavior. They are practically two puppets. But ...

La seconda ombra (2000)

Trent'anni di oblio (1999)

L'uomo proiettile (1995)

Sweet War, Farewell (1991)

A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episo ...

Quartiere (1987)

The different faces of love provide the theme for this beautifully photographed film comprised of four short episodes. In the first story, two sisters head out for a New Year's Eve celebration and end up getting a ride with a car full of boys. The lads rap ...

Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times (1985)

Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of the conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, one of the foremost musicians of his time. ...

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. ...

One Lives By Love (1984)

Through interviews with prostitutes, transsexuals, marginalized people, and the disabled, the director tells a series of stories about sexuality and feelings. An investigation that becomes a quest to explore the other side of love. ...

The Blue Planet (1982)

A look at the passage of time through the changing seasons, human evolution and everyday life. ...

Francesco Guccini e i Nomadi - Un incontro (1981)

Francesco Guccini & i Nomadi: album concerto (1979)

The Cinema Machine (1979)

Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry. ...

Il potere dev'essere bianconero (1978)

In the Highest Heavens (1977)

A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface. ...

The Seagull (1977)

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character. ...

Forza Italia! (1977)

Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage. ...

Skärseld (1975)

An established writer goes to the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm. He is a family man. In the background another woman. A suicide attempt. His work is rejected by the publisher. ...

Fit to Be Untied (1975)

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage. ...

Sarah's Last Man (1974)

With her marriage and her life disintegrating before her eyes, in this Italian political thriller, Sarah has made a detailed filmed record of it all. Not only that, she made a film of the man who flung bombs into a political demonstration and she is killed ...

N.P. - The Secret (1972)

An engineer invents a revolutionary machine capable of automating all industrial production, thereby eliminating the need for human labor. His groundbreaking innovation, intended to free humanity from work, instead leads to his abduction and brainwashing b ...

Come Play With Me (1968)

Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them. ...

Garden of Delights (1967)

Charlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his marriage of convenience, recalls the past and ponders on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, dear to the Surrealists. While she is bleeding, he spe ...

Fists in the Pocket (1965)

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons. ...

Violino (1965)

L'altro buio in sala (2022)

Ennio (2022)

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores. ...

Incontro con Silvano (2021)

L'Isola del Cinema Festival visited Silvano Agosti in his historic hall in the Prati district of Rome. The meeting with the author, director, poet and philosopher, famous in the artistic world for his stubborn independence, with the young writer Stefano Sc ...

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. ...

The Mystery of Dante (2014)

A journey in the footsteps of the most famous initiate of Italian Trecento, the author of the celebrated "Divine Comedy". A poet who has inspired some of the most outstanding minds in History. ...

Hans (2006)

Hans Schabe is a man who lives a hallucinatory existence in which real life mixes with his fantasies and obsessions. The paranoia that has taken his soul hostage is the engine of the film. From childhood to death. The particularly delicate theme, the possi ...

A Need for Change: The Making of 'Fists in the Pocket' (2005)

Documentary on the making of Marco Bellocchio's first film as a director, 'Fists in the Pocket'. ...

La febbre (2005)

One Lives By Love (1984)

Through interviews with prostitutes, transsexuals, marginalized people, and the disabled, the director tells a series of stories about sexuality and feelings. An investigation that becomes a quest to explore the other side of love. ...

The Cinema Machine (1979)

Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry. ...

Fit to Be Untied (1975)

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage. ...