Christian Bisceglia

Cruel Peter

It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.

The Thing

1989. Amidst the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) – the largest of its kind in Western Europe – announces that is going to change name, identity and renew itself into a new 'Thing'. The documentary is a selection of the debates that took place in various PCI chapters across Italy after the historic decision.