Movies by Lina Sastri

Li nepute de lu sinneco

Li nepute de lu sinneco

Brown Bread Sandwiches

Brown Bread Sandwiches

A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto.

Li chiamarono... briganti!

Li chiamarono... briganti!

The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.

Natale in casa Cupiello

Natale in casa Cupiello

Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.

I Am the Law

I Am the Law

Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.

Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano

Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano

Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry another, out of spite he accepts the court of th...

The Magic Screen

The Magic Screen

The time is the late 1920s, and Angelo and Tonino are two brothers traveling around the country in a rattle-trap truck, showing moving pictures to any group of people willing to pay. When they arrive in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Angelo strikes up a relationship with a wealthy marchesa connected to the fascist movement. Tonino, on the other hand, starts to follow the rebellious Giovanni, locked up for his anti-fascist stance, and the farmers who have joined in the anti-fascist forces. As the rebels are either murdered or put in prison, To...

'Na Santarella

'Na Santarella

Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Naples where he is known as the actor.

Strana la vita

Strana la vita

A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?

Le lunghe ombre

Le lunghe ombre

Naples in Veils

Naples in Veils

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.