The Front Line

An original, spectacular journey through the most sensational exploits of the local underworld. Thirty years of violent stories sanctioned by news and films. A gallery of faces, testimonies and period footage. A many-voiced portrayal following the trail of the main exponents of Italian crime that becomes a tumultuous tale of the social transformations running throughout the history of our country.

During a night of debauchery in a refined mansion a young student he preferred to go away nauseated while the old lady Mithilde continued to spy on the movements of the other guys. Late at night, she has to find the lifeless body of Raymond Couchet, owner of a renowned pharmaceutical laboratory, lying on his desk in his office. Someone killed him with a pistol and robbed her safe. Inspector Maigret is called to investigate a story that has many dark sides.

It's moving day and the Italian cultural agitator Franco Bifo Berardi waits for the moving men to arrive. He begins to tell a story: a nineteen year journey into memories connected to the house which winds its way through rooms, objects, and hidden angles. The memory of that place which now has to disappear is evoked from room to room. The furniture piles up in the courtyard, and the house shows its bareness as the story flows on to its epilogue.

Composed and inspired by several comics by Italian underground prodigy Andrea Pazienza, Paz! is a 24-hour slice of life of a bunch of students living in an apartment in Bologna during the 70's, divided between marjuana, university, girls and political militancy.

Married for 20 years since the age of 15, Nina's husband suddenly decides to leave her.

Inspired by the novel by Aldo Nove, this is the dramatic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his “obscene life”.

Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.