Vittorio Cottafavi – A come Andromeda (1972)

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A come Andromeda is an Italian TV miniseries in five hour-long parts, broadcast in 1972 on RAI, the Italian state broadcaster. It was directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and adapted by Inisero Cremaschi from the book by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, itself adapted from the BBC’s 1961 series A for Andromeda by the same authors, which is now mostly lost. It stars Luigi Vannucchi, Paola Pitagora, Tino Carraro and Nicoletta Rizzi, with performances from Arturo Dominici, Mario Piave, Claudio Cassinelli, Gabriella Giacobbe, Enzo Tarascio, Giampiero Albertini, Sandro Tuminelli and others.

Set in England, in the following year, it deals with the receipt, by a new, ultra-sensitive radio telescope, of a signal from the Andromeda Nebula (M31). The lead character, John Fleming (Luigi Vannucchi), a physicist and cybernetician, decodes the signal revealing it to be a message which details the plan for a new, advanced supercomputer. Meanwhile, events at the radio telescope are being monitored by various intelligence and counterintelligence organisations..

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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English .srt

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Roberto Rossellini – Anno uno AKA Year One (1974)

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From Channel4.com:
Rossellini’s indelible career flagged in the late 1950s for a variety of complicated reasons, and after directing commercial films and an episode in Rogopag (1962) he abandoned cinema for television. Twelve years later and near the end of his life he returned to movie-making with this film. It’s a biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari (Vannucchi), who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism. An extension of Rossellini’s documentary and historical reconstruction films, this failed both critically and commercially.

From Timeout.com:
Rossellini’s return to the cinema after twelve years working for television: a sympathetic, idealised – and almost universally reviled – portrait of Italy’s postwar statesman Alcide De Gasperi (played by Vannucchi), the Christian Democrat leader who successfully kept the Communists out of the government, it is indeed hard to swallow. Its flaw is obvious: from 1945’s chaos through anti-Communist coalitions, the historical realities are too close to bear De Gasperi’s saint-like depiction. Its major saving irony is that it shows the conditions for historical choices in a much more illuminating light than its reactionary ticket would allow. So, although by no means the best, it’s the most provocative of Rossellini’s historical biographies, looking suspiciously like a triumph for the devil’s advocate.

2.06GB | 1h 58mn | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/AC2212CBB98719A/Anno.Uno.AKA.Year.One.1974.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English,Italian

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