In questa emergenza sanitaria, anche il regista e nostro grande amico Davide Ferrario – tra i soci fondatori della nostra casa di distribuzione – ha voluto regalarci alcuni dei suoi lavori da mettere a disposizione on demand sul nostro canale Vimeo: Pillole di Ferrario sono quattro importanti titoli della sua filmografia + ...
Satan, damned by God, takes a human form and tempts the human beings to break the divine laws. The movie is composed of four episodes, set in different historical moments: the temptation of Jesus, The Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war. Based on a novel by Marie Corelli.
According to a Swedish legend, the last person to die each year has to collect the souls of everyboby who dies the following year with the carriage of death. David Holm is an alcoholic carpenter who mistreats his wife and dreams to be in charge of this carriage. In this daydream, he faces his soul who helps him to redeem his life and save his wife from suicide. The film is n...
Claude Zoret, a famous and rich painter, falls in love with one of his models, Michael, and for a time the two live happily as partners. Zoret is considerably older than Michael, and as they age, Michael begins to drift from him, although Zoret is completely blind to this. When a bankrupt countess comes to Zoret to have a portrait made — with the real intent of seducing him ...
Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida is very sweet and takes care of her husband and her children. But this is not enough to satisfy her husband. Mads, Victors' nanny when he was a child, understands that Ida is on the verge of a serious breakdown and persuades Mrs Krigger, Ida's mother, to take Ida away. When Ida gets sick, Mrs. Krigger sends her to the countr...
Joan of Arc's trial for heresy. Joan is interrogated by the French Clerical Court. Her judges try to make her say something that will discredit her claim, but she remains steadfast. When she is threatened with burning at the stake, she finally breaks and allows a priest to guide her hand in signing a confession, but after realizing that she has been unfaithful to God, she de...
In Venice, Gaston, a master thief masquerading as a baron, meets Lily, a beautiful thief also pretending to be of the nobility. The two fall in love and decide to team up. They leave Venice for Paris, where they work for the famous perfume manufacturer Mariette Colet with the intention of stealing a great sum of money from her safe. Colet begins to flirt with Gaston and he b...
The government of a small state fears that the rich owner of almost all the capitals of the nation, a widow now, gets married again and brings all her money abroad. So the royal coffers send to Paris, where she lives, a young officer with the mission of winning her heart (and consequently her money). Adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehar, the movie is pe...
Lucy and Larry, after many years of marriage, get convinced wrongly that they have both cheated on the other and decide to get a divorce. The divorce, complicated because of the problem of the custody of Mr. Smith, the fox terrier dog of the couple, is to become final in 90 days, but Larry is still jealous of his wife. After having come to blows with Armand Duvalle, an "inno...
Sent on a mission to Paris to control the work of three Soviet agents, a rigid and stern Russian Communist commissary opens her heart for the beautiful eyes of an aristocratic man and a neat little hat. Based on a screenplay written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, Lubitsch's movie depicts a world of luxurious hotels, revolving doors, penniless nobility and moral aristo...
