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The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Drama
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Euphoria
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. Theyâre brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.
TalhotBlond
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A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to CinecittĂ to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.
Oedipus Rex
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Il Buco
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