Sandro Petraglia (Writer)
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Works
Fit to Be Untied
This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage.
Release Date1975-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Himself (uncredited)
Vote Count6
Un silenzioso imbroglio
Documentary about Andrea Molaioli's film La Ragazza del Lago.
Release Date2007-01-01
Charactersd Himself
What Do You Know About Me
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.
Release Date2009-10-16
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
The Best of Youth
A family saga set in Italy which chronicles the life of a middle-class family. It explores the relationship between two brothers Nicola and Matteo as their life paths separate during youth, encompassing major political and social events in post–World War II Italian history.
Release Date2003-12-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count18
Longlasting Youth
Release Date2010-12-13
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count3
La guerra è finita
Release Date2020-01-13
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
La Omicidi
Release Date2004-09-17
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
The Best of Youth
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Release Date2003-06-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count563
Cefalonia
Release Date2005-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobStoryboard
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Suburra
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Release Date2015-10-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1275
My Brother Is an Only Child
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
Release Date2007-03-28
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count400
Siberian Education
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
Release Date2013-02-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count545
The Truce
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.
Release Date1997-02-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count75
Etoile
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
Release Date1989-03-17
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count31
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
Release Date2002-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Romanzo Criminale
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
Release Date2005-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count659
The Stolen Children
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
Release Date1992-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count89
Bianca
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.
Release Date1984-02-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count393
La scuola
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Release Date1995-04-06
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count114
Caravaggio's Shadow
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Release Date2022-11-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count136
Fiorile
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
Release Date1993-06-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count18
The Front Line
United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.
Release Date2009-11-20
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count32
Mary Forever
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
Release Date1989-05-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count232
Who Killed Pasolini?
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
Release Date1995-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count48
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Release Date2012-03-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count234
Io sono Tempesta
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.
Release Date2018-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count282
The Negotiator
In 2005, Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was kidnapped in Iraq by a group of terrorists. Nicola Calipari, a SISMI agent, is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises the operation. Despite the difficulties, and after lengthy negotiations, Nicola manages to save the journalist, but at the cost of his own life.
Release Date2025-03-06
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count39
Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana
Release Date1997-12-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count15
Our Life
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
Release Date2010-05-21
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count133
The Girl by the Lake
A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.
Release Date2007-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count178
Those Happy Years
A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.
Release Date2013-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count67
The Seagull
A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character.
Release Date1977-07-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8
A Perfect Day
Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescent Valentina.
Release Date2008-08-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count110
Cefalonia
Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.
Release Date2005-10-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count10
Poliziotti
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
Release Date1995-02-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count15
The Mass Is Ended
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
Release Date1985-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count139
L'Oriana
Release Date2015-02-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
The Lost Lover
After their son dies, a Jewish family moves from London to Israel in an attempt to piece their lives back together. The mother finds a way out of her depression through a relationship with a younger man—which doesn't seem to bother her husband. Meanwhile, their daughter begins dating a Palestinian handyman.
Release Date1999-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Marianna Ucrìa
In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
Release Date1997-08-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count16
Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide
The life of a Northern Italian middle-class family is turned upside down after their 12-year-old son falls overboard during a sea trip, only to be picked up by a boat of illegal immigrants.
Release Date2005-05-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count29
Arriva la bufera
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.
Release Date1993-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count13
There's No Religion Anymore
Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!
Release Date2016-12-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count238
Auguri professore
Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the world for the better. At school, a former student of his who is also a teacher will change his attitude.
Release Date1997-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count51
The Yes Man
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
Release Date1991-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count57
Vesna Goes Fast
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Release Date1996-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count30
Domenica
Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together along the streets of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he has to take Domenica to the morgue, to identify a man who might have raped her. To Domenica, Sciarra is a father she never had, to him she is the daughter he couldn't have.
Release Date2001-02-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
The Invisible Wall
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
Release Date1991-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count45
Victory March
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Release Date1976-03-12
DepartmentCrew
JobSecond Unit
Vote Count12
Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.
Release Date2013-02-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count31
I piccoli maestri
During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best friend's girl. As the Resistance struggle continues, some of the "little teachers" are killed, and the brutal reality of war leaves its mark on their youthful idealism.
Release Date1998-09-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count21
L'Oriana
The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.
Release Date2015-02-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count18
Una vittoria (TV)
Release Date1988-02-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Tomato
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
Release Date1990-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
Il toro
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money.
Release Date1994-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count36
Ambrogio
A woman wants to graduate to the Italian Naval Academy in the 60s. She has to fight her family, her friends and a world not ready to accept her.
Release Date1992-12-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
La guerra degli Antò
The story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.
Release Date1999-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count30
La mia generazione
Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.
Release Date1996-09-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Il falsario
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
La Strada Dritta
In 1956, Italy is trying to cheer up after the World War Two devastation. Fedele Cova, freeway society engineer, has a dream: build a long highway that link Milan and Naples. The challenge is extremely hard and for 8 years a lot of men work strongly, building a 755 kilometers highway, with 113 viaducts, 525 flyovers and 38 tunnels.
Release Date2014-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
A Lighter Burden to Bear
Release Date1998-12-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
It's Happening Tomorrow
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.
Release Date1988-05-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count6
Almost America
Antonia travels with her children and sister from Italy to Canada to reunite with her husband Vincenzo. But when Antonia discovers Vincenzo has been seeing another woman, she begins live as a signle mother.
Release Date2001-04-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
'O professore
The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative to life on the street and a possibility for the future.
Release Date2008-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
The Cinema Machine
Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.
Release Date1979-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector