Adriano Aprà

AKA:

0.1179

1940-11-18

Roma, Italy

Biography

Crew Roles

In the Shade of the Conformist

Director

Fellini's Circus

Director

The Mask

Writer

Rosso cenere

Director

Journey into the Twilight

Original Concept

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

Director

Olimpia to Friends

Writer

Olimpia to Friends

Director

In the Shade of the Conformist

Writer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {29}

1977-11-30 5.3

Fortini/Cani

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations ar ...

Genre :Documentary

Othon

1971-01-13 5.4

Othon

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming ...

Genre :Drama

Clerk (segment "Agonia")

1969-05-29 5.2

Love and Anger

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured i ...

Genre :Drama

Self

0

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and interviews. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2006-05-27 7

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City". ...

Genre :Documentary

2010-04-26 0

La balena di Rossellini

La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conceived, but never realized, by Rossellini took shape ...

Genre :Documentary

2021-12-09 0

Marco Melani - The Man With The Golden Eye

"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with ...

Genre :

2005-12-26 0

Ritratto di Piero Bargellini

From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia". ...

Genre :

sé stesso

2016-04-07 2.8

L'età d'oro

Sid grew up with his mother Arabella in a cheerful and somewhat naïve Apulian community, which was filled with affection and a great passion for cinema. After years away he returns to the land of his ...

Genre :Drama

1969-09-27 6.5

The Seed of Man

During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what c ...

Genre :Drama, Science Fiction, Romance

medico di Alberto

2009-04-17 6.017

A Matter of Heart

Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Cinema critic

1969-01-24 7.1

Dillinger Is Dead

A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen. ...

Genre :Drama

Self

1969-05-07 6.5

Umano non umano

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances. ...

Genre :Documentary

1969-01-01 0

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rollin ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

2016-12-27 0

Sassi nello Stagno

Genre :

Self

2020-10-22 10

Glauber, Claro

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European a ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2014-07-24 0

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some o ...

Genre :Documentary

1968-01-01 0

Satellite

Genre :

2011-06-01 6

In the Shade of the Conformist

In this visual essay, renowned film critic and historian Adriano Apra takes a closer look at Bernardo Bertolucci's work with Pier Paolo Pasolini on La Commare Secca and discusses its poetic qualities ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2009-12-06 7

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also exp ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2003-09-17 5.8

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2025-02-23 9

Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975

After its premiere at the Berlinale Forum in February '75, Anna was also presented in Venice, the film was followed by a very well-participated debate, alongside Alberto Grifi there was Adriano Aprà, ...

Genre :Documentary

0

Like Life - Private Stories of Italian Film Critics

For at least three generations of viewers, cinema has been like life: a motive for work, relationships, conflict, politics, and pleasure. The documentary, based on original interviews with critics act ...

Genre :Documentary

Se stesso

2013-07-17 0

Rosso cenere

People of a volcanic island 'Stromboli' share their memory of beautiful actress Ingrid Bergman starred in Stromboli directed by Rossellini. Their testimonies describe relations around Stromboli . Movi ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself

2025-06-17 7

Io credo nell'inconoscibile

A whole day in Adriano Aprà's temple-studio, for a conversation about the future of cinema, his fruitful life, and teaching utopia to young filmmakers eager to invent and experiment. This tribute to A ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself

2019-06-21 0

Adriano Aprà Autoritratto

Genre :

2024-09-28 0

Lady Cobra - Una Killer in Blues

Genre :

Self

2003-05-17 10

Un film et son époque

Genre :Documentary

Self

2025-02-24 7

Fuori campo di Anna

Fuori Orario airs for the first time the 13 hours of footage from which Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli made Anna, plus other video material filmed during the same period. Anna's 'off-screen foot ...