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- Marta works for a TV station and dreams that she speaks German fluently and is able to play piano, disciplines she does not know. This anomaly could be caused by her obsession with Beethoven. While organizing an extravagant TV program with her partner Nicola in which all kinds of intellectuals and wise men appear, she decides to undergo a regression. As a consequence of this, she lands at the beginning of the 19th century, during the last years of the life of the famous German composer.
- The photographic art of Carlo Naya, as preserved in surprisingly beautiful glass negatives, sets the scene for Richard Wagner's Venice. In a recording studio, an actor supplies the voice for Wagner's own narrative of the rediscovered first symphony. In the account written a few weeks before his death in the city on 13 February 1883, the composer describes a performance of the symphony by an orchestra made up of the teachers and students of the Venice Conservatory (the Liceo Musicale Benedetto Marcello). The black shape of a piano glides up the Grand Canal and is disembarked at the Palazzo Malipiero, a palace Wagner frequented. As notes float through the rooms, an actress's voice reading the pages of Cosima Wagner's diary interweaves with the memoirs of Giuseppe Norlenghi, who gathered the impressions of the leading players at the historic concert. A pianist introduces and performs some excerpts from the Beethoven-like symphony, revealing how this youthful work is the foundation stone for an architecture that eventually towered up into Tristan, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal.
- During a guided tour in the Canova Museum - Possagno, Italy, a love story between Elena a young student of art and a mysterious man. The young woman will find out a very incredible truth, this man is Canova himself, came from the past to visit his museum.
- A difficult job provokes in David an internal struggle. Meanwhile, he and Mirco meet various borderline society characters. Life isn't about following a straight path but about adaption and survival even if this involves difficult decisions. At the end, Davide will need to make a choice.
- 'I televisionari' [literally 'the Televisionairies'] delves back into the extraordinary history of the birth of 'free TV' in Italy, i.e. the first ever private TV stations. They challenged the monopolistic grip that the state has had on broadcasting since 1954. We have put together the final pieces of a complex but exciting jigsaw puzzle. This was a magnificent period that is now in jeopardy. Year after year we see it inexorably wiped from our memories as its leading protagonists disappear. We will hear these protagonists tell the fascinating stories that accompanied this incredible journey. This documentary will try to give viewers a vivid picture of this colourful reality to give them back a taste of that bygone era. To do that, we will try to recover films, photographs and equipment used at that time and then abandoned on some dusty shelf or jealously kept by some keen aficionado. We will rediscover those unlikely places where these first TV programmes were made, such as living rooms, wine cellars and garages. These were the places where sheer enthusiasm, which has long since disappeared, made up for the lack of money.
- In the autumn of 1943, a train loaded with cinematographic and film equipment leaves the city of Rome: its destination is Venice, a city designated by the fascists as the nerve center of the Italian cinema of the newly formed Republic of Salò. The path taken by that train, however, is shrouded in mystery, as is the fate of the films transported. Many films that are believed to have anticipated Italian Neorealism are no longer there: among these there is "Sperduti nel Buio", a silent film of 1914. Denis Lotti, a university researcher from Padua, has decided to put himself on the trail of these disappeared films.
- Marco can not stand the loss of Anna. He puts in a box all that reminds him of their love story, trying to forget her. Each object is a memory, and slowly we discover that Anna left him because of his jealousy and his outbursts. Things get complicated when Marco finds out that Anna now is dating another man.