Stefania De Santis

Castelrotto (2023)

A mysterious wrongdoing shakes the life of Castelrotto, a small Apennine village that has always been off the news... and history. Ottone, a former local journalist and retired elementary school teacher, takes advantage of the incident to pick up the pen a ...

The Prince of Rome (2022)

In 19th-century Papal Rome, Bartolomeo is a wealthy and greedy parvenu who craves a noble title. While trying to raise the money he needs to strike a deal with a prince for the hand of his daughter, he'll find himself caught in a magical journey between pa ...

Romanzo radicale (2022)

Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era. ...

La notte più lunga dell'anno (2022)

The film takes place over the course of a single night: the longest night of the year, between December 21 and 22 (the winter solstice), when the sun sets around 4:30 p.m. and rises the next day at 7:30 a.m. A long night in which the stories, destinies, an ...

Marx Can Wait (2021)

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory. ...

L'ultimo piano (2020)

In the top-floor apartment of a large building on the outskirts of Rome, the lives of three young roommates intertwine with that of Aurelio, a former punk singer trapped in his glorious past. ...

Martin Eden (2019)

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his socia ...

Fuori (2015)

Blood of My Blood (2015)

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico's twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. Federico hopes to secure his brother a b ...

Dormant Beauty (2012)

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state. ...

Sorelle Mai (2011)

The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena being brought up by her aunts (Marco Bellocchio's sisters) because her mother Sara is trying to succeed as ...

Vincere (2009)

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. ...

Riprendimi (2008)

The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera. ...

Fallen Heroes (2008)

Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which ...

Signorina Effe (2008)

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy. ...

The Remains of Nothing (2005)

Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy. ...

An Italian Romance (2004)

Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover. ...

The Spectator (2004)

Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she decides to follow him. There she meets and unexpectedly befriends Massimo's companion Flavia, and b ...

With or Without You (2021)

Alice and Tommaso have been together for fifteen years; they don't have children, he's a musician, she's an actress. Invited to dinner for an announcement, their friends think it's going to be a marriage announcement, but instead discover that decided to b ...

Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue) (1990)

A TV movie variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The movie is a part of Carmelo Bene's multi-medial project on Hamlet, also including the theatrical movie "Un Amleto di meno", a stage drama and the experimental video "Amleto di Carmelo Bene (Da Shakespeare a ...