JOHANNESBURG 5 -11 October CAPE TOWN 12-14 October Cinema Nouveau Cinema Nouveau 5 Oct. 12 Oct. 17,30 L’ARMATA BRANCALEONE 17,30 L’ARMATA BRANCALEONE for love and gold for love and gold by Mario Monicelli by Mario Monicelli 20,15 NOTTURNO BUS 20,15 IERI, OGGI E DOMANI by Davide Marengo yesterday, today, tomorrow Great by Vittorio De Sica 6 Oct. 17,30 IO, L’ALTRO 13 Oct. by Moshen Melliti 17,30 LE ROSE DEL DESERTO Italian Cinema the roses of the desert 20,15 LA DOLCE VITA by Mario Monicelli the sweet life italianfilmfestival by Federico Fellini 20,15 UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE a special day by De Sica, Fellini, 7 Oct. by Ettore Scola Monicelli, Scola 17,30 LE ROSE DEL DESERTO the roses of the desert mainly starring Oct. by Mario Monicelli 14 17,30 IO, L’ALTRO by Moshen Melliti Marcello Mastroianni, 20,15 UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE a special day Sophia Loren 20,15 LA DOLCE VITA by Ettore Scola the sweet life and the latest in by Federico Fellini Italian 8 Oct. 17,30 IERI, OGGI E DOMANI Contemporary yesterday, today, tomorrow Cinema by Vittorio De Sica 20,15 IO, ALTRO DURBAN 19-21 October by Moshen Melliti Cinema Nouveau 05 - 11 October Johannesburg Cinema Nouveau screened 19 Oct. by Jameson - Rosebank 17,30 L’ARMATA BRANCALEONE 9 Oct. for love and gold 17,30 MATRIMONIO ALL’ITALIANA 12 - 14 October Cape Town by Mario Monicelli Cinema Nouveau screened marriage italian-style by Jameson - V& A - Waterfront by Vittorio De Sica 20,15 IERI, OGGI E DOMANI 19 - 21October Durban yesterday, today, tomorrow 20,15 NOTTURNO BUS Cinema Nouveau screened by Jameson - Gateway admission free by Davide Marengo by Vittorio De Sica Oct. 10 Oct. 20 17,30 LA MASSERIA DELLE ALLODOLE 17,30 LE ROSE DEL DESERTO the lark farm the roses of the desert by Paolo e Vittorio Taviani by Mario Monicelli 20,15 LA SECONDA NOTTE DI NOZZE 20,15 UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE by Pupi Avati a special day by Ettore Scola 11 Oct. 21 Oct. 17.30 LA SECONDA NOTTE DI NOZZE 17,30 IO, ALTRO by Pupi Avati by Moshen Melliti 20,15 MATRIMONIO ALL’ITALIANA 20,15 LA DOLCE VITA marriage italian-style the sweet life by Vittorio De Sica by Federico Fellini will never tell him which is his real son. In spite of his many L’ARMATA BRANCALEONE for love and gold UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE attempts, Domenico eventually gives up and decides to stay a special day with Filumena, the woman he has after all always sincerely by Mario Monicelli with Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, by Ettore Scola loved, and adopts all three children. Gian Maria Volonté with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni A knight on his way to take over the Aurocastro fief, is robbed On May 6th, 1938, a fascist Rome is celebrating Hitler’s by brigands and left in a ditch. One of the assailers talks his visit to Mussolini in the streets. In a working class tenement, LA MASSERIA DELLE ALLODOLE friend Brancaleone into taking up the knight’s identity, after Antonietta, wife to a fervent “black shirt” fascist and herself the lark farm recovering a parchment stating the ownership of the fief. a passionate fascist, cherishes a photographic album filled by Paolo e Vittorio Taviani LA DOLCE VITA with Mussolini’s pictures and famous words. By chance, with Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu Brancaleone becomes the brigands’ commander but the the sweet life road to Aurocastro is full of perils and unexpected adven- while chasing a parrot escaped from the cage, she encoun- by Federico Fellini It’s 1915 and the Great War is at its start. Turkey is shaken by tures: the encounter with Teofilatto and the Byzantines, the ters a neighbour, Gabriele. The latter, an ex-radio speaker, with Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg the conflict and numerous soldiers are planning an ethnic occupation and flee from a plague ridden town, the rescue has lost his job following the accusation of being a subver- sive, a false reason to hide the fact that he’s an homosexual. cleansing against the Armenian minority communities living of an extravagant bride-to-be. At last, after reaching the fief, Marcello is a journalist who writes celebrity articles for a Antonietta’s first reaction towards the man, who invites him- in the country. The Avakian family is celebrating the funeral of Brancaleone’s army are assailed by the Saracens but are tabloid magazine focusing on the facts and personalities of self over for a coffee, is of mistrust. But understanding soon its patriarch but it’s are also bravely trying not to be defeated saved at the last minute by a group of warriors headed by Via Veneto. Because of his job, his lifestyle is very similar to takes over. The man and the woman exchange secrets and by the recurring rumour regarding a possible deportation. the knight they had robbed. Brancaleone and his men have that of the celebrities he writes about. At the same time he have a brief love encounter. At the end of the day, both return Offspring Nunik has more than a good reason to oppose lea- no choice but to leave for a crusade in Palestine. swings from one relationship to another with indifference. to their usual lives: Antonietta to being her husband’s slave, ving her home country: her love for Turkish officer Egon, who The arrival of an American actress, Sylvia, becomes the while Gabriele is arrested and sent to confinement. has promised to take her safe and sound over the border chance for another sentimental adventure. Without thinking where they will peacefully live their love story. Unfortunately twice, Marcello plunges into the vortex of Rome’s social life. things will not go as planned and the girl will find herself NOTTURNO BUS After an orgy, that leaves everybody with a sense of boredom by Davide Marengo forced to witness the horrors of the Armenian genocide, the and sickness, Marcello encounters a young girl at the beach with Giovanna Mezzogiorno, IERI, OGGI E DOMANI extermination of her whole family and the deportation of the Valerio Mastrandrea, Ennio Fantastichino by chance. Her limpid and innocent eyes strike a deep chord yesterday, today, tomorrow few women survivors. in him but he fails to understand what the girl is trying to tell by Vittorio De Sica Franz is a bus driver waiting for his big break in life but he’s him as he is unable to catch her words because of a canal with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni unable to get rid of his addiction to poker that is costing him separating them. Marcello has no choice but to follow his a fortune. But then Leila, a beautiful and intriguing woman squalid acquaintances. 1 Adelina: Naples, 1954. Adelina smuggles cigarettes in LA SECONDA NOTTE DI NOZZE but also a money forger, storms into his life… The mysterious order to support her family and unemployed husband. Her by Pupi Avati tricks of destiny plunge Leila and Franz into the middle of a only way to avoid going to jail is by getting pregnant every with Antonio Albanese, Katia Ricciarelli time she is about to be arrested. ruthless war for a microchip that could ruin the life of a very LE ROSE DEL DESERTO Episode 2 Anna: In Milan, a rich woman starts a relationship Italy, end of WW2. A widow, Liliana, is forced to leave her powerful public person… Help arrives unexpectedly from the roses of the desert Matera, a man in the intelligence with a passion for jazz and with a man of modest origins out of boredom, but their union beloved town Bologna with her son Nino, for their seve- by Mario Monicelli lasts the time of an outdoor trip. re economical problems. They move to Apulia into the good readings. with Michele Placido, Giorgio Pasotti, Episode 3 Mara: In Rome, Mara, a young prostitute, has to farmhouse of her brother-in-law Giordano, the brother talk her neighbour’s nephew into going back to the seminary of Liliana’s deceased husband, who in youth had been During the summer of 1940, a medical unit of the Italian army after he has madly fallen in love with her. madly in love with her. Their arrival arouses tension, both camps out at Sorman, a lost oasis in the Libyan desert. The in the life of Giordano, a weak man, and in the routine of IO, L’ALTRO occasional and rhetorical war bulletins from the front turn the by Moshen Melliti the farmhouse, awakening old conflicts also in the hearts war into something abstract and distant. The atmosphere in with Raoul Bova, of the two aunts of the in-law, Suntina and Eugenia, still full Giovanni Martorana, Mario Pupella the camp is relaxed: the commander, a major, spends his MATRIMONIO ALL’ITALIANA of rancour towards Liliana’s family. time writing passionate love letters to his young wife while marriage italian-style On the tatty fishing boat Medea, time seems to have stop- an Italian friar involves the Italian soldiers in helping the local by Vittorio De Sica ped for Giuseppe and Yousef, were it not for a radio, their only population, turning their military expedition into a humanita- with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni means of communication with the outer world. Giuseppe rian mission. But the conflict taking place in the North Africa is an unsociable and crusty Sicilian fisherman, Yousef a has an unexpected twist and the Sorman camp is suddenly In a bordello during the war, Domenico Soriano meets playful and solar Tunisian immigrant.