Dacia Maraini

Dacia Maraini (born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels.

Io sono nata viaggiando (2013)

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irish Braschi
CAST:  Maria Pia Di Meo  •  Dacia Maraini  •  Alberto Moravia  •  Pier Paolo Pasolini

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Irish Braschi
CAST:  Maria Pia Di Meo  •  Dacia Maraini  •  Alberto Moravia  •  Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (2007)

Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts from colleagues and admirers, including Woody Allen.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Massimo Ferrari
CAST:  Sophia Loren  •  Woody Allen  •  Renzo Arbore  •  Giorgio Armani

Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts from colleagues and admirers, including Woody Allen.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Massimo Ferrari
CAST:  Sophia Loren  •  Woody Allen  •  Renzo Arbore  •  Giorgio Armani

The Isle of Medea (2016)

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Naitza
CAST:  Pier Paolo Pasolini  •  María Callas  •  Ninetto Davoli  •  Nadia Stancioff

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Naitza
CAST:  Pier Paolo Pasolini  •  María Callas  •  Ninetto Davoli  •  Nadia Stancioff

Haiku On A Plum Tree (2017)

Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini's government. They were sent to a prison camp in Nagoya with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today: Toni's daughter Mujah explores her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mujah Maraini Melehi
CAST:  Dacia Maraini

Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini's government. They were sent to a prison camp in Nagoya with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today: Toni's daughter Mujah explores her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mujah Maraini Melehi
CAST:  Dacia Maraini

RARA (1969)

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sylvano Bussotti
CAST:  Hurst Hornung  •  Paolo Graziosi  •  Massimo Sarchielli  •  Carlo Cecchi

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sylvano Bussotti
CAST:  Hurst Hornung  •  Paolo Graziosi  •  Massimo Sarchielli  •  Carlo Cecchi

Conjugal Love (1970)

In a well appointed villa in Bagheria, near Palermo, a couple, Silvio and Leda Pataneo, spend their days attempting to complete a novel, making love, and caring for a citrus grove that the local townfolk want to acquire. All framed against a political backdrop of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dacia Maraini
CAST:  Tomas Milian  •  Macha Méril  •  Lidia Biondi  •  Luigi Maria Burruano

In a well appointed villa in Bagheria, near Palermo, a couple, Silvio and Leda Pataneo, spend their days attempting to complete a novel, making love, and caring for a citrus grove that the local townfolk want to acquire. All framed against a political backdrop of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dacia Maraini
CAST:  Tomas Milian  •  Macha Méril  •  Lidia Biondi  •  Luigi Maria Burruano

Prophecy - The Africa of Pasolini (2013)

Pasolini seeks in Africa the peasant and revolutionary authenticity he had sought in the Roman villages. This hope will end in a new disappointment: Africa is a reservoir of irremediable contradictions that will explode in the massacres of yesterday and today. It ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gianni Borgna  •  Enrico Menduni
CAST:  Roberto Herlitzka  •  Dacia Maraini

Pasolini seeks in Africa the peasant and revolutionary authenticity he had sought in the Roman villages. This hope will end in a new disappointment: Africa is a reservoir of irremediable contradictions that will explode in the massacres of yesterday and today. It ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gianni Borgna  •  Enrico Menduni
CAST:  Roberto Herlitzka  •  Dacia Maraini

1968 The Braibanti Trial (2020)

Documentary about the life of Aldo Braibanti, an 'heretic' Italian intellectual, from early anti-fascist activism to his death, passing through the infamous 1968 mock trial which, under the flimsy accusation of “plagio”, actually aimed at his independence and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carmen Giardina  •  Massimiliano Palmese
CAST:  Ferruccio Braibanti  •  Lou Castel  •  Maria Monti  •  Dacia Maraini

Documentary about the life of Aldo Braibanti, an 'heretic' Italian intellectual, from early anti-fascist activism to his death, passing through the infamous 1968 mock trial which, under the flimsy accusation of “plagio”, actually aimed at his independence and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carmen Giardina  •  Massimiliano Palmese
CAST:  Ferruccio Braibanti  •  Lou Castel  •  Maria Monti  •  Dacia Maraini

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DIRECTION:  Pietro Suber
CAST:  Giorgio Napolitano  •  Eugenio Scalfari  •  Gianni Letta  •  Dacia Maraini