Cecilia Mangini Movies

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...

Twenty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore, Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra once again investigate what Italians think...

Roman township of San Basilio: Fabio, 7 years old, in Italian a "character", is assigned to a differential class. How the family reacts, what the...

Third and last episode by Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra in which they investigate what Italians think about sex and gender. Now, the questions...

A unique 1960s documentary on the traditional dirge sung by women in Griko, an ancient dialect of Salento, so old that it originates from the ancient...

On a hot summer day, a group of boys of the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many rivers that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes...

A piece based on Mangini's photographs of a journey that would change her life: the one she took at the age of 25 to the pumice mines of Lipari, a...

The core values of the Olympic Games are excellence, friendship and respect, with a view to build a better world by promoting sport. Exploring the...

A commission by the public company responsible for the Italian motorways on the theme of road safety. Irony and drama come together in the narration...

"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in...

Vietnam will be free is a chamber film that tells of a war, of memory that fades, of a challenge against the passing of time. Two shoeboxes full of...

The second film by Cecilia Mangini is based on the words of neo-realist writer Vasco Pratolini. It alternates between documentary and the...

A reportage on the “popular walk of Vignola”, a non-competitive and popular race that challenged the rhetoric of competition and the myth...

Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that...

Trieste, after being liberated from the fascist regime, seems to have been forgotten by the rest of the Italian Republic. Mangini investigates the...

Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra,...

In 1967, Nino Benvenuti wins the boxing world championship, becoming a myth among young Italian men from the working class. They start seeing sport...

Second part of the series Mangini dedicated to boxing as a possibility for the social rescue of young Italians. In the south, shepherds train by...