MINERVA PICTURES

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CLASSIC
LA COLLINA DEGLI STIVALI BOOT HILL
Giuseppe COLIZZI
The victims of oppresive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual
alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
1943: UN INCONTRO 1943: A MEETING
Alfredo GIANNETTI
Rome, during the German occupation. The nurse Jolanda meets by accident
the deserter lord lieutenent Stelvio Parmegiani, and hosts him in
her house. A sweet feeling blooms between them and they start smuggling,
running in the countryside by bicycle, looking for foodstuff. After
hiding in a farm with other people, they get caught by the Germans and
Stelvio has to be deported in Germany.
Production: Italy - 1969 - 80’
Cast: Anna MAGNANI, Enrico Maria SALERNO, Manfred FREYBERGER
Version: Italian, English
NOSTRA SIGNORA DEI TURCHI OUR LADY OF THE TURKS
Carmelo BENE
First Carmelo Bene’s film, Our Lady of the Turks (Nostra Signora dei
Turchi, 1968), is a fragmented series of scenes centred around the
cathedral at Otranto in which the protagonist (Bene) tries repeatedly
but unsuccessfully to meet Saint Margherita. It was adapted from Bene’s
own 1965 novel.
Production: Italy - 1968 - 124’ (160’)
Cast: Carmelo BENE, Lydia MANCINELLI, Ornella FERRARI
Version: Italian, English (subt.)
LA PROVA GENERALE THE DRESS REHARSAL
Romano SCAVOLINI
“La prova generale” is a choral movie, enlivened by a myriad of characters
and built upon a number of events and actions. Its scrappy structure,
full of quotations and repetitions, cannot be summarized in a plot.
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Production: Italy - 1969 - 97’
Cast: Terence HILL, Woody STRODE, Bud SPENCER
Version: Italian, English
Production: Italy - 1968 - 90’
Cast: Lou CASTEL, Guido ALBERTI, Frank WOLF, Carlo CECCHI
Version: Italian