Cecilia Mangini Movies
- 2019
Burning Ghost
Burning Ghost5.62019HD
Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day...
- 2000
Regina Coeli
Regina Coeli02000HD
"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in...
- 1962
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
To Arms, We Are Fascists!6.61962HD
Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...
- 2021
Grazia Deledda la rivoluzionaria
Grazia Deledda la rivoluzionaria02021HD
- 2017
Un viaggio a Lipari
Un viaggio a Lipari02017HD
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...
- 1973
Holidays
Holidays71973HD
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...
- 2020
Two Forgotten Boxes
Two Forgotten Boxes02020HD
Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra,...
- 1961
The Chant of Tiber’s Branches
The Chant of Tiber’s Branches6.41961HD
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...
- 1959
Firenze di Pratolini
Firenze di Pratolini01959HD
The second film by Cecilia Mangini is based on the words of neo-realist writer Vasco Pratolini. It alternates between documentary and the...
- 1958
The City’s Unknown
The City’s Unknown01958HD
The life, the problems, the hopes of the ragazzi of the suburbs of Rome. Ignored by the city, these young men spontaneously express their vitality,...
- 1960
Stendali (Still They Toll)
Stendali (Still They Toll)61960HD
A unique documentary on the traditional dirge in Griko, an ancient language of Salento.
- 1960
Maria's Days
Maria's Days5.71960HD
A day in the life of Maria, an old woman who lives on a farm in Puglia. She is not afraid of death, the gestures and actions that fill her days give...
- 1959
The Wheat Passion
The Wheat Passion31959HD
An expressionist and hypnotic vision of a disconcerting rural ritual in Lucania, the symbolic slaughter of a goat, a collaboration between Mangini...
- 2013
My Travels with Cecilia
My Travels with Cecilia02013HD
- 2018
Facce
Facce02018HD
An astonished crowd turns its face to the boldness of a young photographer in 1956, at the Puglia village festival.
- 2018
Le Vietnam sera libre
Le Vietnam sera libre02018HD
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...
- 1974
The Bridle On The Neck
The Bridle On The Neck7.21974HD
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...
- 2017
Lievito madre – Le ragazze del secolo scorso
Lievito madre – Le ragazze del secolo scorso62017HD
- 1965
Being Women
Being Women6.51965HD
This documentary is one of the earliest film enquiries on women's condition in Italy, seen in its different aspects: social, economic, psychological....
- 1965
Tommaso
Tommaso61965HD
The industrial city of Brindisi is the setting for this film, the tension between the bright promises of the industrial world and the not-so-bright...