Movies by Silvio Orlando

Parthenope

Parthenope

The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of love—all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves.

Sud

Sud

During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.

Red Lob

Red Lob

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.

La mia generazione

La mia generazione

Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.

The Only Country In The World

The Only Country In The World

Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio Orlando reprise their roles from The Yes Man (1991).

A Brighter Tomorrow

A Brighter Tomorrow

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

Anguish Cry of Predator Bird

Anguish Cry of Predator Bird

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

Il delitto di Via Poma

Il delitto di Via Poma

Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.

Un'altra vita

Un'altra vita

Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.

Intolerance

Intolerance

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

Children of Hannibal

Children of Hannibal

Unemployed Domenico robs a bank, but is forced to take a hostage when things go wrong. The hostage, Tommaso, is a man who hates his wife and job, and who was already planning to run away with his gay cop lover anyway, so this seems to him like a good opportunity to disappear and start over again: the kidnapped becomes the kidnapper, and things get even more complicated when the two are joined by Rita, Tommaso's beautiful daughter.

The Ties

The Ties

Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.