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 JESUS, THE EASTERN TRAVELLER
This documentary brings together some elements of the legend which relates the journeys of Jesus Christ in the Orient. The historian and Sufi mystic Fida Hassnain accompanies viewers along a path winding through various cultural and religious traditions which share a common, sacred respect towards Jesus.
Version: Italian and English | Length: 53' | Year of production: 2005
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 HERBARIUM
Ancient myths and nature are interconnected and intersect in this entertaining and informative animation series on the healing power of plants. In a masterly mix of 2D and 3D, the animation introduces ancient Greek and Latin legends, sagas and tales explaining the origin of medicinal plants, and reveal some of their practical uses.
Version: Italian and English | Length: 52 x 5' | Year of production: 2005
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 THE GLASS HOUSE
End of March 1944: the Third Reich occupies Hungary. In the capital, Budapest, SS Lieutenant-colonel Adolf Eichmann, whose task it is to clear the nation of all Jews, arrives along with the Nazi troops.
Version: Italian | Length: 87' | Year of production: 2005
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 WE ARE AGAINST… People and stories of a small swiss-italian city
This programme casts an original glance at the history of the town of Biasca, whose libertarian traditions are full of unexpected surprises.
A nostalgic glance at a rapidly vanishing world.
Version: Italian | Length: 51' | Year of production: 2004
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 JACKO
The adventurous life of Ticino-born Peter Jacomelli, who fought in the British army during WWII. From London to Africa, the landings in Sicily and Salerno, the battle of Montecassino and the Mühlberg concentration camp: Peter Jacomelli returns to these locations 60 years later to narrate his incredible story on the horrors of war.
Version: Italian | Length: 58' | Year of production: 2004
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 HURRICANE - The Pompeii of Migrant Stone-cutters
Stories of long-forgotten emigration. Thanks to its abundance of granite, Hurricane Island (U.S.) had once been an Eldorado for hundreds of Swiss and Italian stone-cutters whose dream vanished in less than 50 years, when a concatenation of tragic events culminated in the closing down of these quarries.
Version: Italian | Length: 53' | Year of production: 2004
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 Sierra Valley: Swiss emigrants in California
In northern California, near the Nevada border, between the Plumas and Sierra counties, lies an area that still resounds with the echoes of one of the most important migrations in the history of mankind: the gold rush.
Version: Italian | Length: 42' | Year of production: 2001
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 Jews as Jesus was
“Jews as Jesus Was what does this title imply? Is it saying that Jesus was a Jew?” Of course we know he was. “But wasn’t he a Christian?” In fact, this was a name given to his disciples after his death and resurrection.
Version: Italian, English | Length: 48' | Year of production: 2001
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 Saint Francis and Islam - the beginning
The encounter between Saint Francis of Assisi and the Sultan is recalled in this documentary concerning an historical episode illustrating the philosophy, the experience and the farsightedness of St.
Version: Italian | Length: 2x45' | Year of production: 2000
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 Gaudì, Picasso and one of the world's oldest hospital
One of the world’s oldest hospital and still fully operational was built in Barcelona in 1401. Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau is a well-deserving institution which the people of Barcelona have always considered their own, supporting it over the centuries with generous donations, bequests and gifts.
Version: Italian, Spanish | Length: 50' | Year of production: 2000
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 Ghetto, the heart of memory
Time has erased many traces of the relationship uniting Venice and its Jewish residents. On the one hand there are the Jews, a wandering, despairing and obstinate people, who often lived on the fringe of society.
Version: Italian | Length: 59' | Year of production: 1999
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 The miracle of miracles
The miracle of miracles is a journey between mystery and the sacred, a wonder that defies logic. The story takes place at the time of the Thirty Year War.
Version: Italian | Length: 50' | Year of production: 1999
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Gli Spetsnaz: le forze speciali del Cremlino
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UCCIDERE PER IL CREMLINO
Durante l'era comunista, l'Unione Sovietica si era dotata di forze speciali, note come Spetsnaz.
Version: Italian | Length: 2x52' | Year of production: 1999
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Storia dell'estrema destra francese
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In Francia, accanto alla lunga tradizione democratica che prese avvio nel 1792 con l'insurrezione del popolo di Parigi e la deposizione di Luigi XVI, si sono sviluppate correnti di pensiero reazionarie che influenzano in modo profondo il tessuto della società contemporanea.
Version: Italian | Length: 2x52' | Year of production: 1999
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The enchanted war
Between 1915 and 1918, the Italian Dolomites became the stage for a conflict which remains unparalleled today for its inhuman conditions. The struggle between Italian, Austrian and German forces took place at high altitudes on an impervious terrain where soldiers fought each other on steep and inaccessible slopes.
Version: Italian | Length: 47' | Year of production: 1998
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San Carlo Borromeo
As a child of seven Carlo Borromeo had already been geared towards the priesthood. He was not a brilliant student, but was appointed as secretary to his uncle Pope Pius IV in Rome, and was made a Cardinal of Milan.
Version: Italian | Length: 53' | Year of production: 1998
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When the swiss served two flags: Swiss soldiers in the kingdom of the Bourbons 1815-1861
What were more than 10'000 Swiss soldiers doing in Southern Italy at the turn of the last century? They were seeking their fortune in the prosperous kingdom of the Two Sicilies, as their own country was plagued by hunger, famine and unemployment.
Version: Italian, French | Length: 60' | Year of production: 1998
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Saint Ambrose of Milan
For the occasion of the 16th centenary of his death, the TSI pays tribute to the figure of Saint Ambrose with a film that is a tribute to the founder of the Ambrosian rites, as well as an attempt to modify documentary tradition through the use of different forms of audio-visual communication.
Version: Italian | Length: 52' | Year of production: 1997
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 War and technology
According to the German philosopher Werner Sombart, modern warfare is a major force behind the development of western industrialisation. As we have learned during the years of the Cold War, this observation is strikingly accurate.
Version: Italian, English, Japan | Length: 3x50' | Year of production: 1993
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 St. Gotthard
The Museum of the Gotthard Pass brings under one roof a thousand years of history. It was inaugurated in 1986 on the National Commemoration Day. The documentary recalls step by step the creation of the cultural institution of the Gotthard hospice: the various elements have been put together like bits of a mosaic.
Version: Italian | Length: 20' | Year of production: 1986
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 San Gottardo: the path of people
This documentary evokes, through documents of the public records (previously unpublished photographs), the history of the Gotthard Pass. The first travellers crossed the pass on foot, then there were a few automobiles driving on the winding road of the Tremola, later still caravans.
Version: Italian | Length: 34' | Year of production: 1980
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