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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Gagliano Aterno (Italy) Drama Giacometti, Alberto 1901-1966 Drama Intellectuals Italy Italy Politics and government 1914-1945 Drama Italy Social conditions 1918-1945 Drama Jägerstätter, Franz 1907-1943 Levi, Carlo 1902-1975 Social stratification Italy DramaFilter By Series
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Gagliano Aterno (Italy) Drama Giacometti, Alberto 1901-1966 Drama Intellectuals Italy Italy Politics and government 1914-1945 Drama Italy Social conditions 1918-1945 Drama Jägerstätter, Franz 1907-1943 Levi, Carlo 1902-1975 Social stratification Italy DramaFilter By Series
Criterion collection ; 1043Summary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDSummary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINSummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020