Production

Elda Ferri

Born 1937-11-12 · Bologna, Italy

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Life Is Beautiful poster
8.4

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Life Is Beautiful

1997

Pinocchio poster
5.7

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

2002

The Soul Keeper poster
6.6

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

The Soul Keeper

2003

Copkiller poster
6.0

A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.

Copkiller

1983

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You poster
5.5

Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting with the college career that is looming over his last summer in New York, and embarks instead on a search for wisdom through nontraditional means...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2012

5 Is the Perfect Number poster
6.3

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.

5 Is the Perfect Number

2019

The Lost Lover poster
3.7

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.

The Lost Lover

1999

Pereira Declares poster
6.7

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...

Pereira Declares

1995

Come Into the Light poster
7.1

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.

Come Into the Light

2005

Between Strangers poster
5.6

Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Between Strangers

2002

The Days of Abandonment poster
5.8

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

The Days of Abandonment

2005

The Case of Unfaithful Klara poster
4.9

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires...

The Case of Unfaithful Klara

2009

Look to the Sky poster
6.5

A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of World War II is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jona Oberski.

Look to the Sky

1993

Hill of Vision poster
6.5

Italy, WWII. After his anti-fascist mother is arrested, Mario spends his childhood on the streets. In 1947 they are miraculously reunited and start a new life in America. Based on the life of Mario Capecchi, 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Hill of Vision

2022

The Demons of St. Petersburg poster
5.5

St. Petersburg, 1860. After a member of the imperial family is assassinated, Fyodor Dostoevsky meets one of the conspirators, who reveals that his comrades are planning another attack to the Tsar's life. Plagued by debts and struggling to finish his latest novel, Dostoevsky must act fast to call off the plot.

The Demons of St. Petersburg

2008

I Vicerè poster
6.1

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.

I Vicerè

2007

Folle d'amore - Alda Merini poster
5.8

The extraordinary life of the great poet Alda Merini: from mental illness to motherhood, from impossible loves to access to culture and fame. An unprecedented and fascinating portrait of a contemporary icon.

Folle d'amore - Alda Merini

2023

Anita B. poster
5.5

After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.

Anita B.

2014

La festa perduta poster
NR

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La festa perduta

1981

La verità sta in cielo poster
5.9

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.

La verità sta in cielo

2016

Last Summer poster
6.0

A yacht lies at anchor in a bay off the Sicilian coast. Naomi, a young Japanese woman, has four days to leave her son with a lasting memory of her before she loses custody of him forever. In this hostile environment, Naomi faces the difficulty of approaching Ken under the controlling glare of the crew. When Naomi's hopes seem lost Ken starts to take an interest in her. Timeless days magnify the weight of their last goodbye.

Last Summer

2014

La notte è piccola per noi poster
5.6

A spacious ballroom, a place outside of time, and the interlacing stories of its customers on a Saturday night.

La notte è piccola per noi

2019

How Kids Roll poster
5.5

In the midst of the war in Gaza during the Second Intifada in 2003, two 12-year-old boys, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along with a former surfing champion, form a friendship united by the love of water and learn from each other.

How Kids Roll

2024

Scarpette bianche poster
10.0

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer due to the amount of active landmines scattered all over the country.

Scarpette bianche

1997