FILM and TV SERIES
I think I decided to make movies when, as a child, I was reading One Thousand and One Nights and believed I saw what I was reading.
The Name of the Rose
TV Series - 2019
1327. The enlightened friar William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey. William realizes that the key to the mysteries lies in the heart of the abbey’s famous labyrinthine library.
While they continue to investigate, they must also prepare to debate a powerful Inquisitor. The verdict of this debate will dictate the future of politics and religion in Europe.
Just when they seem to be on the verge of solving the enigma, events come to a head...
Max and Hélène
Film - 2015
Based on the novel by Simon Wiesenthal. Max is Jewish, Hélène is the daughter of an anti-Semitic fascist. Max is captured and Hélène, pretending to be Jewish, is deported alongside him. Once the war is over, Max searches for Hélène and learns that she is dead, killed by the sadistic SS officer Köller. Max's life purpose becomes to find the Nazi officer and avenge his love.
The Lying Game
Film - 2011
The early 80s. Europe is shocked by a series of terrorist attacks claimed by Abu Nidal’s Fatah-Revolutionary Council. The French secret services recruit and manipulate a young Palestinian to infiltrate him into Abu Nidal's organization.
Resolution 819
Film - 2008
Bosnia, 1995. French policeman Jacques Calvez investigates the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica. In six years of research, and facing thousands of obstacles, Calvez finds evidence of a genocide. He brings the perpetrators of the massacre to justice at the ICTY.
Karol - the Pope, the Man
Miniseries - 2006
The journey of John Paul II from the day of his nomination until the moment of his death. The contradictions, the battles, the sufferings of a truly extraordinary outstanding Pope and man.
Karol - a Man who Became Pope
Miniseries - 2005
The young Karol Wojtyla studies philology and philosophy at Krakow University. He has a girlfriend, he writes, plays, and acts. When the German army invades Poland, the suffering and death of friends change Karol's life.
Entrusted
Miniseries - 2003
France, 1942. Thomas von Gall is a child with extraordinary intelligence, and is a formidable chess player. His mother, Marie, heads an organization that helps Jews escape the country.
Gregor Lammle, a philosophy professor who collaborates with the Gestapo, was once Maria's teacher. He too is a great chess player. Lemmle’s aim is to aquire the great wealth the von Gall family is using to save lives. And he knows that little Thomas has all the secret codes memorized.
The Young Casanova
Miniseries - 2002
Violinist, writer, spy, gambler, adventurer... A charmer and seducer. He too is charmed by the beauty of women. As the protégé of the French ambassador to the Venetian Republic, he begins his ascent in high society. Eventually betrayed by his jealous benefactor, Casanova is thrown into prison. Fifteen months later, he escapes and flees to Paris, where he finds both new adventures and new troubles.
The Octopus Season 9
TV Series - 1998
Early sixties. Drugs are one of the mafia's new big businesses.
The Octopus Season 8
TV Series - 1997
In 1950s Sicily, landowner Francesco Altamura believes he can strike a deal with the Mafia. The powerful godfather Don Pietro engineers a boy’s rise to power, turning him into the ruthless Tano Caridi.
Diary of a Rapist
Film - 1995
Twenty-year-old Luca appears like a regular guy interested in spatial engineering. He is not. His inability to love and be loved turns him into a serial rapist.
Cellini: a Violent Life
Film - 1995
The great Florentine artist Benvenuto Cellini, a violent and impulsive man, lives a dramatic and adventurous existence. An emblem of the Italian Renaissance.
Stradivari
Film - 1988
The life of the craftsman Antonio Stradivari. He’s grumpy by character and always unsatisfied. He is the most famous luthier in the world. His creations are incomparable masterpieces in terms of beauty and clarity of sound.
Blood Ties
Miniseries - 1986
Julian Salina, an American engineer, lives his quiet life in US. He’s never really paid attention to his paternal homeland of Sicily, but his father has 'debts' to the Mafia. Julian’s awakening will be brutal.
He’ll be blackmailed to go to Sicily, where he will have to face a terrible dilemma: choosing whether to save the life of his father or his cousin, who is a judge fighting the Mafia.
Hearts and Armour
Film - 1983
​The legendary adventures and loves of Christian knights and Saracen warriors in a mythical time an in imaginary landscapes.
Colomba
Miniseries - 1982
Colomba, a young Corsican woman who seeks revenge for her father's death, uses all her cunning and intelligence to execute her plan.
Martin Eden
Miniseries - 1979
From Jack London’s novel. A young, rough, and uneducated sailor is struck by two impossible dreams: poetry and a refined rich girl. Martin struggles with all his might to become a famous writer. When his dreams finally come true, he feels that his life has become meaningless and kills himself.
The Crystals’ Day
Film - 1978
An important peace conference is held in Trieste at the end of the seventies. A fascist organization instructs an ex-SS officer to carry out an attack. The Nazi manipulates an oblivious and feeble-minded young boy to carry the bomb in the peace conference.
A Classy Crime
Miniseries - 1977
Happily married, and a father of two, Guido is a brilliant young Milanese doctor. One morning however, he wakes up with amnesia. More worryingly still, lying next to him in bed is his dead lover, her throat slashed. He had no reason to kill her. Or did he?
The Man from Marseilles
Miniseries - 1975
The story of when the Neapolitan smuggling bosses decide to break away from the Sicilians in favor of the Marseille criminal family.
A war is unleashed.
