Enrico Gras

Dreams Die at Dawn

Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Soledad

Italian comedy

Soledad

Italian comedy

Empire in the Sun

Italian documentary about Peru.

Empire in the Sun

Italian documentary about Peru.

Lost Continent

Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Lost Continent

Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Don Segundo Sombra

Tribute to Ricardo Guiraldes, the writer who knew how to find the best human excellences in a man of the people.

Pictura

Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art history and art appreciation.

Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples

Tells the story of the Chief of the Orientals from a few elements: paintings, monuments and proclamations, managing in many passages to create a strong sense of movement and reality.

Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples

Tells the story of the Chief of the Orientals from a few elements: paintings, monuments and proclamations, managing in many passages to create a strong sense of movement and reality.

Artigas, Protector of the Free Peoples

Tells the story of the Chief of the Orientals from a few elements: paintings, monuments and proclamations, managing in many passages to create a strong sense of movement and reality.

Adventure of the Centuries

It tells the history of civilization through the objects of the Museo de La Plata.

Il paradiso perduto

Short film in competition at the 1st Berlin Film Festival

The Invention of the Cross

A text read by the narrator traces the vicissitudes of the crucifixion of Jesus, while the objective of the two directors investigates the style of Piero della Francesca by exploring his frescoes in the Arezzo church of San Francesco.

Il dramma di Cristo

The documentary focuses on Giotto's frescoes in Padua.

La ciudad frente al río

A vision of the chaotic Buenos Aires of the mid-20th century and an urban solution

Islands in the Lagoon

A documentary about the Venetian lagoon, with the words of Diego Fabbri narrating scenes of strips of land swallowed up by the sea, of small boats sailing on the water, of men and women concentrating on their work in a world which is "a false sea and a false land."

Romantici a Venezia

This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the sick souls and the sorrows of literary characters and musicians who lived the dream of this city. It is the Venice of Lord Byron, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, d'Annunzio; a Venice made of precious images, palaces reflected in the water, mysterious moonlights, little squares where unhappy lovers wander under the music of Richard Wagner.

Il paradiso terrestre

A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.

Racconto da un affresco

The first art film by Emmer and Gras dedicated to Giotto's frescos in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. By capturing the humanity of the figures that populate the story of the life of Jesus, the two Directors treat the series of paintings like a true canvas, isolating the single scenes from the context of the work, and then re-composing them in a new synthesis. The film was re-edited in 1946 and entitled Il dramma di Cristo.

The Legend of Saint Ursula

A BAFTA Special award nominated Italian documentary describing of some of the paintings of Vittore Carpaccio at a gallery in Venice depicting the life of Sant Orsola (Saint Ursula)

Guerrieri

A short Italian film from Luciano Emmer & Enrico Gras using paintings to tell a story of warriors.

Il paradiso terrestre

A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.