Marco Paolini

Two deadbeat friends see the opportunity of turning their fortune around after they come into possession of a precious stolen relic, the tongue of...

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted...

War and love. tears and laughter, the worst and the best that can happen to someone - in brief, life, in Rome, ruled by the Nazis, in 1943. The man...

Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days...

Marco Paolini interviews Mario Rigoni Stern about—among other things—his well-known experience as a soldier on the Eastern front during...

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it...

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans...

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

"Piazza Garibaldi" is a name found in almost any Italian town. It is a metaphor for the nation and its history. Like in the successful, award-winning...

Rachel and Ryan are two popular influencers who will do anything to get a few more likes and win the next virtual challenge.

In 2023 unidentifiable radiation left 99.5% of the world's female population sterile. Man's fate is now divided in to two paths: extinction or the...

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

Marco Paolini reshapes the story of Odysseus, depicting him not as a cunning hero but as a wandering shoemaker on a ten-year odyssey, burdened by a...

Miserabili - Io e Margaret Thatcher is a theatrical monologue by Marco Paolini, flanked with regard to music and voices sung by the Liquor Merchants.

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...

In a thermal bath town that withstands mass tourism, a builder and his surveyor partner start up an ambitious project: converting twenty abandoned...

Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.

Joe, Carlo, Bobo and Giacomo have always been friends, each with their own life and problems, but united by an authentic bond and the passion that...

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile,...

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island...