Movies: Tonino Guerra

"Where the last house faded away in the wheat, there lived a little girl, who walked at night out in the fields, with a bucket of water to mirror the moon." It's a true story based on Tonino Guerra's poem, about a girl who lives in a remote Lithuania...

An animated film based on the tale of Tonino Guerra, telling the story of the once famous circus duet - the lion and its owner, the story of how the famous lion Amadeo performed in the traveling circus of Signor Peretti....

An intimate portrait of the legendary Italian screenwriter, poet, painter, ceramist, artist Tonino Guerra....

A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is m...

A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay....

This short documentary, Elio Petri's directorial debut, deals with the passion of the Italians for cycling. It concentrates on a young deliveryman, who uses the bicycle at all times of his life and dreams of becoming a professional cyclist....

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The elegy film is dedicated to the memory of the remarkable Soviet and Russian poet, translator and writer of the second half of the twentieth century, Bella Akhmadulina....

A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexu...

A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted by filmmaker Wim Wenders....

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The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn as he s...

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A poetic film about a cruel theme, told in a way that doesn't make the spectators close their eyes....

Three times Tonino is a creative documentary about one of Europes most significant screenwriters, Tonino Guerra, who wrote scripts to more than 120 movies, by Fellini, Antonioni, Tarkovskij and Angelopoulos. Tonino Guerra was also a poet, a painter, ...