Renato Sarti

Straitjackets, lobotomies, electroshock therapy: this was the asylum before the Basaglia law. Then dialogue and respect took the place of violence, blurring the precarious distinction between the “normality” of those who were supposed to treat patients and the “madness” of those who were hospitalized.

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Life and career, lights and shadows, successes and misfortunes of Angelo Cecchelin, the greatest comic actor Trieste has ever had. Who was Angelo Cecchelin? Rome had Petrolini, Naples had Totò. Trieste had Cecchelin.

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Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.

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The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

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A single mother faces a culture of sexual harassment at her new workplace.

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A world-weary, widowed police inspector has to break his vow of self-isolation and get back on the field after his teen daughter is arrested for the possession of a gun tied to a much-publicized murder.

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The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

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Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.

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Straitjackets, lobotomies, electroshock therapy: this was the asylum before the Basaglia law. Then dialogue and respect took the place of violence, blurring the precarious distinction between the “normality” of those who were supposed to treat patients and the “madness” of those who were hospitalized.

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