Stefano Scandaletti

Battlefield (2024)

These are the years of the First World War and Dr. Stefano Zorzi spends his days in the Exemption Clinic in a large city of Northern Italy, where he not only takes care of soldiers who arrive from the massacre of the front, but also he fights simulation an ...

Dry (2022)

In Rome it hasn't rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are ...

Natural Lefty (2022)

A widowed mother, tries desperately to get an entry into the ruthless world of professional football for her 12-yer-old son. ...

I Am Santa Claus (2021)

Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn't want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams ...

Fra due battiti (2021)

Giovanni lives in Trento in the villa he inherited by his dead parents. He spends his days wandering around the city in search of new situations as Marc, an unusual screenwriter, creates exciting fragments of life for him without his knowledge. ...

Welcome Venice (2021)

Two brothers are in conflict over the way the Venetian lagoon has been transformed, and the identity of the city and its residents has drastically changed. ...

Effetto domino (2019)

In a thermal bath town that withstands mass tourism, a builder and his surveyor partner start up an ambitious project: converting twenty abandoned hotels into luxury residences for wealthy retired people. The lack of financial support from the banks and in ...

A Woman's Name (2018)

A single mother faces a culture of sexual harassment at her new workplace. ...

Oltre il confine - La storia di Ettore Castiglioni (2017)

On the Trail of My Father (2016)

A kid helps his troubled father to hunt a killer bear. ...

Revelstoke: A Kiss on the Wind (2015)

During his long journey as an immigrant, before his tragic death, my great grandfather Angelo wrote fifty letters to his beloved wife Anna. After discovering these treasures, I've decided to follow his steps, back in time and space, to bring him back to li ...

Lea (2015)

Lea grew up in a crime family in Calabria. The father of her daughter Denise is also a member of the Mafia. Lea, however, wants a different life for her daughter, free of violence, fear and falsehood. She decides to cooperate with justice, to benefit of th ...

La sedia della felicità (2014)

Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead. ...

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspi ...

Once Upon a Time the City of Fools (2010)

A biopic of Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist. ...

Mediterranean Food (2009)

Sofia's story, the best chef in the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend. ...

Wild Blood (2008)

The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall. ...

Aldo Moro - Il presidente (2008)

At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in hi ...

The Right Distance (2007)

The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder. ...

The Roses of the Desert (2006)

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the batt ...

Concorso di colpa (2005)

The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist that may be connected to an unsolved political murder of the '70s. ...

De Gasperi: The Man of Hope (2005)

In August 1954, Alcide De Gasperi, now at the end of his personal and political career, left the Christian Democrats' headquarters in Rome and visited his daughter, Lucia, a nun. He revealed to her that he had definitively retired from active politics and ...

Renzo e Lucia (2004)

Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's "The Betrothed". In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry ...

Pinocchio (2002)

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio. ...

Sei come sei (2002)

Six shorts. ...

Our Tropical Island (2001)

A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to ...

Mozart Is a Murderer (1999)

When Chiara, a violinist at the conservatory, is brutally murdered after a performance, inspector Maccari is put on the case. Maccari, whose own wife was once murdered by a serial killer, suspect professor Baraldi, the director of the conservatory. But as ...

I piccoli maestri (1998)

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best fr ...