Movies: Cecilia Mangini

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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 reality of a young worker, in one of Mangini's most emblematic works....

The story of Cecilia Mangini, documentary maker, photographer and intellectual who told thirty years of Italy's history with her films....

The Italian unification, also known as Risorgimento, took place between 1815 and 1870. During this period, caricature was a privileged medium for political commentary. From Napoleon III to Garibaldi, no one escaped the caricaturists, who also resorte...

This documentary is one of the earliest film enquiries on women's condition in Italy, seen in its different aspects: social, economic, psychological. Starting from an analysis of the feminine role models proposed by the cultural industry, the film fi...

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In 1962 Cecilia Mangini, an Italian filmmaker made 'Stendali', a documentary about a group of women who practiced an Ancient Greek funeral rite in the southern Italian town of Martano (Puglia, Lecce). Shortly after the filming of 'Stendali' the women...

Two young militants in love try to link their ideals to their everyday life together. A reflection on the attempt to combine love, intimacy and revolution....

The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the Abruzzi and Lazio regions, to make it to the Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore, 10 miles from ...

An astonished crowd turns its face to the boldness of a young photographer in 1956, at the Puglia village festival....

A work commissioned by the Ministry of Labour to which Mangini brings an eloquence that transcends any propaganda ambition. It is an accurate portrait of a vision about a land of new highways and factories built on the grounds of shepherds and farmer...

Trieste, after being liberated from the fascist regime, seems to have been forgotten by the rest of the Italian Republic. Mangini investigates the state of affairs of the city: economic underdevelopment, delicate political situation and social impove...

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 focus on the notion of modesty and on the meaning given to the sacrament of marriage....

Series inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore. This time, Italian people are confronted with though questions about sex before marriage, extramarital affairs and homosexuality....

Twenty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore, Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra once again investigate what Italians think about sex and gender. They travel through the country and gather opinions and testimonies, resulting in a complex por...

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 history of the Games and the relation between sport and the building of a national identity, Mangini ex...

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 running after sheep and gyms are improvised. In Rome, young Roma people struggle against discrimination i...

In 1967, Nino Benvenuti wins the boxing world championship, becoming a myth among young Italian men from the working class. They start seeing sport as a chance to break free from a life of poverty, hunger and heavy industrial jobs. The first episode ...

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 of the Grande Raccordo Anulare (ring road) of Rome....