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Giovanni Calcagno has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Traitor.
2005
Drama
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane
The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.
Dir. Giulio Manfredonia · With Claudio Bisio, Anita Caprioli, Andrea Bosca
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka
A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.
Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Massimo Popolizio
France, late 1700s. Leon Dalville is a prince who has it all - good looks, love and wealth. One mysterious night, however, he loses everything. His young wife passes away in a fire and the prince’s face is permanently marred. To hide his disfigurement, he wears a silver mask that only partially covers his face, turning him into a mysterious and cruel man who is tormented by his past and hated and feared by all. Innocent and naive Bella Dubois comes to Leon’s castle to offer her services as a maid, to pay back the debts her father has with the prince. Leon’s cousin Helene, who has always been in love with him, challenges the prince: he must seduce and abandon Bella. But, despite Helene’s cruel and deceitful tricks, Leon falls in love with Bella.
With Alessandro Preziosi, Blanca Suárez, Massimo Wertmüller
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