Synopsis:

Domenico and Filumena first met during the WW 2 in a bordello. Since that time they have been iseparable. Filumena wants to marry Domenico. He will always pay for her rent and food, let her take care of his business, but marriage is out of the question. He just wants her to be his employee during the day and lover during the night. Filumena pretends to be dying and on her death bed tries to convince Domenico into marrying her. And all of this happens when Domenico plans to marry his other youn...

digital, color, 102 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 18.02.2003 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The film has six stories set in Naples: a clown is used by a gangster; a pizza seller loses her wedding ring; a boy’s funeral; a professional gambler is defeated by a boy; an unexpected and unusual wedding of a prostitute, Therese; "professor" Ersilio Micci, "seller of wisdom. This film is De Sica’s homage to the city of Naples where he lived five years.

b/w, 107 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 18.02.2003 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

The comedy about a young and poor married couple that tries to build a home over night and in that way escape the law (according to Italian law of that time, when a roof has been built the inhabitants of that house cannot be forcefully thrown out)… Il tetto is De Sica’s last neorealist film.

b/w, 91 min

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Saturday 22.02.2003 AT 15:00

Synopsis:

WW 2. Cesaria and her thirteen year old daughter Rosetta flee Rome which is under constant bombing. They decide to go to Cesaria’s village. When they arrive there, they find people who live in poverty barely surviving. There they meet an intellectual Michele, a young antifascist whom everybody calls Professor. Both mother and daughter have romantic feelings for him. But soon, Germans take Michele away. Cesaria later learns that he was killed. As the liberation forces progressed, moth...

color, 99 min

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Saturday 22.02.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

An old lady finds a baby in a field of cabbage. She adopts him and raises as her son. After the old lady dies, the boy, Toto, goes into an orphanage. As a happy young man he leaves the orphanage and sets off to find work in post war Milan. Soon he joins the homeless and together they build a small community in a waste land. There they discover oil, and the old lady’s ghost appears to Toto…This comedy was influenced by Charlie Chaplin and René Clair. It is also the only stylized film of the neore...

digital, b/w, 95 min

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Tuesday 25.02.2003 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The story is about an old aristocratic Jewish family Finzi-Contini and their decay in the time of Mussolini and the WW 2. The members of the family live isolated on their estate and are not very much interested in political events. However, they will soon affect them… A powerful film by De Sica, based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani (who cowrote the script but later withdrew from the project). The film won an Oscar as the best foreign film in 1972.

color, 95 min

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Saturday 01.03.2003 AT 19:00

Tuesday 25.02.2003 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Sicily, a young aristocrat Adriana and Cesare have been in love for years. However, Adriana consents to Cesare’s father’s wish and marries his brother Antonio. When Antonio dies, all are relieved, and there don’t seem to be any obstacles to Cesare’s marriage with the love of his life. However, fate is not on their side because Adriana is seriously ill… Il Viaggois De Sica’s last film

color, 95 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 01.03.2003 AT 15:00