Mario Soldati's groundbreaking documentary series for the newly established national television channel RAI looks at the customs and culinary traditions of Northern Italy's Po Valley. Halfway between a journalistic reportage and an ethnographic investigation, Soldati's work, with its educational aim, stood in contrast …

The video begins with soldiers in black leather uniforms in a cabaret with a close-up of a soldier passed out in female fishnet stockings and heels as another lone soldier stares into the distance. The scene then cuts to male dancers performing elaborate choreography while marching forward with a Star of David. As the …

A story of love and lust shaded with overtones of incest and lesbianism. Livia is a woman trying to regain the affections of her husband Alberto, whose journalism career takes him away for months at a time, on purpose. What she does not know is that he has an undeniable attraction for their daughter Monica. Livia's own…