Dacia Maraini
Writer · b. 1936 · Fiesole, Firenze, Italy
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.
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Movie6.0DocumentaryDocumentary 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.
Movie3.3In 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 analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
RARA
1969 · 3 votes
Movie4.8DocumentaryOn 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.
MovieDocumentaryPerennially hungry for life, Ferdinando Scianna is now a gentleman in his eighties, with a vibrant mind full of incredible stories. He even has had a few brushes with death. Being let into his life means retracing an existence marked by encounters with some of the giants of twentieth-century culture, interwoven with friendships and questions about the meaning of photography as a practice, the significance that producing images can still have today.
Movie4.2DocumentaryA 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 photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thirty years ago.
Io sono nata viaggiando
2013 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentary- Movie
MovieWomeness
2025
Movie7.0DocumentaryTokyo 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 family's experience and legacy by bringing their memories to life as she makes her own journey to Japan.
Haiku On A Plum Tree
2017 · 2 votes
Movie6.3DocumentaryDocumentary 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 homosexuality.
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