Movies: Francesco Leonetti

This biblical drama from the Catholic Marxist director focuses on the teachings of Jesus, including the parables that reflect their revolutionary nature. As Jesus travels along the coast of the Sea of Galilee, he gradually gathers more followers, lea...

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by th...

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy....

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events....

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, viola...

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello....

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary....

A self-parody film on Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculptures and the art as "commodity", shot together with Francesco Leonetti and Ugo Mulas....