Leonardo Sciascia

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This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

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The play, based on Leonardo Sciascia’s novel and set in 1960s Sicily, tells the story of a murder investigation led by an honest Carabinieri captain who has just arrived from distant Parma. Captain Bellodi is a loyal and intelligent man, ready to face any challenge in order to do his duty well.

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In Villa San Giovanni, a young couple, in the midst of a marital crisis, live in total mutual contempt.

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"Western di cose nostre" (1984), from a short story of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia, is set in postwar Sicily: an unsuspected pharmacist played by Domenico Modugno inserts himself into a feud between Mafia gangs to take revenge on his rival in love. Directing the two episodes is Pino Passalacqua, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrea Camilleri and Antonio Saguera.

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Based on the 1971 novel "Atti relativi alla morte di Raymond Roussel" (Acts Related to the Death of Raymond Roussel) by co-writer Leonardo Sciascia.

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Two members of the fascist legion GOD WANTS IT, Michele and Luigi, both from Sicily, met in Malaga and became friends in the course of the 1936-39 counter revolution. Based upon the short story by Leonardo Sciascia.

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The revolt of the people of a Sicilian village further to the Expedition of the Thousand which, in 1860, enables Garibaldi to liberate Sicily.

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