Stefano Calvagna

Baby Gang

Giorgio and Marco are two close teenage friends and part of a baby gang: a group dedicated to petty crime: thefts, robberies, drug dealing, fights, all to afford an insane consumption of alcohol and drugs. The gang decides to broaden its range to prostitution, starting friends of the same age. The plan is to rob the customers just before they have sex, but to do so they need the right tools.

La Fuga

Saverio Sallesi, a past as a boxer without too much success, is grappling with a difficult situation. Some small precedents with the law, he has to deal with unemployment and failed loans from banks. Even from a sentimental point of view, things are not going well and he is unable to build a serious relationship with any of the women he frequents. One day he robs a bank and during the escape decides to hide in the apartment of Micol, a prostitute.

Si vis pacem para bellum

Stefano is a contemporary "ronin", a man adrift with the soul of a samurai and the conviction that to achieve peace it is necessary to wage war.

Non escludo il ritorno

That story is about Franco Califanos " third life " from his decline to the revival, until death: life experiences, moments of tragedy and suffering always exceeded lightly and with stubbornness by the songwriter.

In Nomine Satan

Inspired by a true story, the film begins with the arrest of a boy and a girl (Antonio and Elena) both in shock and stoned by a mix of drugs and alcohol. The two guys are admitted to hospital where they both confess the murder of their friend Angela. A brutal murder and devoid of logic that will lead investigators to suspect that the two killers were not alone. Investigators soon discover a reality completely unknown to them: that of Satanism.

Cronaca di un assurdo normale

Film inspired by a true story that happened to the director, who shot it while he was under house arrest. Stefano Calvagna, after being the subject of an attempted murder on 17 February 2009 outside a theater in San Saba in Rome, was arrested by the police and taken to the Regina Coeli prison with various charges against him, including that of having organized the fake, attempted crime. A personal journey that pushes Calvagna to try to understand the reasons why he found himself in that uncomfortable situation.

Dopo quella notte

Francesco and Elena, Roberto and Flavia, Thomas and Virginia, make up a fixed and tight-knit company for three years now, they are all living in Rome and come from good families. Elena and Francesco are two twenty-five and to be married, Roberto and Flavia are twenty years and in love with the impetus of youth; Tommaso and Virginia are two singles that have in common the fact that they feel out of lace in the world. The union of these characters will be shocked by the death of Francesco as a result of a car accident, the loss of his friend upset the lives of everyone.

The Breath of the Soul

Alex, a young man who does dialysis treatment, struggles not to allow his health condition to take over his life.

Guardando le stelle

Mauro and Isabella are different in every way but they have in common the damned uneasiness that hovers if you suffer from panic attacks.

Il Lupo

Dir. Stefano Calvagna’s third feature is inspired by the real events in the life of Luciano Liboni, aka "The Wolf." A freewheeling interpretation of the character, here renamed Franco Scattoni (Massimo Bonetti), the film highlights the ups and downs of a rough and violent man, whose behavior borders on madness and is worsened by epilepsy. Il Lupo feels he has nothing to loose. Diving headfirst into a life of crime, he ends up killing a gas station attendant in Perugia in 2002. He then kills a young "carabiniere," and becomes a wanted fugitive. A case study in human behavior’s violent patterns framed as a psychological thriller and police story, this controversial film has been praised for the uncompromising realism of its disturbing narrative.

E guardo il mondo da un oblò

After constant arguments with his parents and after being left by the girl who dumped him for an engineer, Mike leaves university and starts managing a laundry hoping to find himself and escape from his life. But what he tries to distance himself from will present itself to him in the form of other people, the laundry customers, who like him struggle to be in this world. Among these he meets Laura, the client in the diving suit, who after isolating herself from the rest of the world is trying to reopen herself to people and life...

Pazzo d'amore

Two teenagers, secretly in love with each other, spend their holidays with their families in the same seaside resort.