Italo Calvino Trailers
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Total trailers found: 16
10 November 2012
A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.
10 October 2013
In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding night.
24 December 1962
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed.
02 June 1999
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons.
23 February 1962
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
04 December 2019
The philosophical tale revolves around an elderly monkey prince who wakes up injured and disoriented in an environment he does not recognise.
01 October 2018
A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord.
30 December 1969
Agilulfo is a righteous, perfectionist, faithful and pious knight with only one shortcoming: he doesn't exist.
02 January 1984
Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel. Based on a story by Italo Calvino.
02 April 2003
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates.
17 November 1962
Filmed in French Polynesia with a Hawaiian cast, the story revolves around the adventures and romances of a young Polynesian boy as he grows up.
06 May 2026
A reflection dances on the walls of a place suspended between magic and history. A short film about Grosio Castle, inspired by Calvino’s *Cosmicomics*.
25 May 2025
An experimental short film inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.