Saturday, April 18, 2026

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician - Morte di um matematico napoletano - (1992)


Naples, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, university professor in pure mathematics, is a disillusioned and tormented man who lives the last days of his life. Grandson of Bakunin on his mother’s side, interned in a psychiatric hospital for his anti-fascist acts, abandoned by his wife, and now become estranged from his own Communist Party comrades and his University collaborators, he lives his life with disenchanted detachment until his last act, suicide.


Director: Mario Martone.

Writers: Mario Martone, Fabrizia Ramondino.

Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Anna Bonaiuto, Renato Carpentieri, Toni Servillo, Antonio Neiwiller, Licia Maglietta, Fulvia Carotenuto, Roberto De Francesco, Andrea Renzi, Alessandra D’Elia, Annalisa Foà, Lucio Amelio, Vera Lombardi, Lucio Allocca, Toni Bertorelli.

1992 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2607766047398

The Black Dossier - The Dossier Noir - (André Cayatte, 1955)

Jacques Arnaud arrives in a small town somewhere in the province. Soon a citizen reports to him that strangers have broken into his house where they stole a mysterious “black dossier”.

Director: André Cayatte


Stars: Antoine Balpêtré, Lea Padovani, Bernard Blier, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Marc Bory, Daniel Cauchy, Danièle Delorme, Paul Frankeur, Jacques Duby, Noël Roquevert, Gabrielle Fontan, Christian Fourcade, Henri Crémieux, René Génin, Lucien Nat, Sylvie, André Valmy, Edmond Ardisson.


1955 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.


Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/2525883337382

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician - Morte di um matematico napoletano - (1992)

Naples, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, university professor in pure mathematics, is a disillusioned and tormented man who lives the last days of ...