Movies: Aldo Fruttuosi

  • 2001
    Workers, Peasants

    Workers, Peasants (2001)

    Workers, Peasants

    42001HD

    A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of...

    Workers, Peasants
  • 2014
    Communists

    Communists (2014)

    Communists

    4.52014HD

    Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) an...

    Communists
  • 2003
    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    The Return of the Prodigal Son (2003)

    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    5.32003HD

    In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who ...

    The Return of the Prodigal Son
  • 2003
    Humiliated

    Humiliated (2003)

    Humiliated

    02003HD

    Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966)....

    Humiliated
  • 2003
    Incantati

    Incantati (2003)

    Incantati

    02003HD

    Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film Umiliati — fragment as mini-manifesto....

    Incantati