Ferrari, Isabella 1964-Overview
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Most widely held works by
Isabella Ferrari
Caos calmo Quiet chaos
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4 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in Italian and held by 177 libraries worldwide Pietro has just lost his wife, and he is left alone with their young daughter. He promises the girl that he will wait for her in the car when she returns to school for the first time, but then his temporary offer turns into habit. Now Pietro spends his days in his car, watching the world around him and grieving in his own way.
Saturn in opposition
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1 edition published in 2008 in Italian and held by 129 libraries worldwide The hosts of regular gatherings are the dynamic Lorenzo and his life partner, the successful writer Davide. The somewhat uptight Angelica is helping to prepare the food, while her Antonio has yet to appear. The guest list is the abrasive Neval and her husband Roberto, Davide's ex, Sergio, the spirited Roberta, and a new arrival, the budding writer Paolo. These 40-somethings will remember the carefree existence of the past two decades.
Caos calmo
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8 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in Italian and German and held by 53 libraries worldwide When Pietro Paladini, a successful Italian executive returns home to discover his wife has died, his life is suddenly turned upside-down. Gradually, Pietro begins to look at the world through new eyes and learns that it is only through the love for his daughter that he can rediscover his love for life.
Arrivederci amore, ciao
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7 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 18 libraries worldwide "Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a comfortable bourgeois life in his native country. Thanks to Anedda, a corrupt police inspector, and after giving away former comrades, he obtains a reduced jail sentence. Once released from prison he obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way to it is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist and murder."--IMDb.
Un giorno perfetto
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1 edition published in 2009 in Italian and held by 18 libraries worldwide A high-profile Italian politician is desperately seeking re-election, whilst attempting to fend off corruption charges and hold his crumbling family life together. Meanwhile, the politician's bodyguard, separated from his wife and family, begins to reach psychological breaking point and embarks on a course of action fuelled by depression and jealous anger.
Nicholas' gift
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide When their young son is killed in a robbery in Italy, a vacationing couple offer his organs to seven patients in desperate need of transplants. Not only seven families' lives, but a country's attitudes to organ donation, are changed by the events that follow. Based on a true story.
La lingua del santo
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3 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in Italian and held by 6 libraries worldwide A pair of would-be criminals get more than they bargained for when they steal a holy relic from the Catholic church.
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5 editions published between 1988 and 1999 in French and German and held by 5 libraries worldwide Un inspecteur de police judiciaire poursuit son enquête à la suite du meurtre d'un ancien nazi.
Arrivederci amore, ciao
by Michele Soavi
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1 edition published in 2007 in French and held by 5 libraries worldwide "Ex-militant d'extrême gauche, Giorgio a passé plusieurs années en Amérique centrale pour échapper à la justice. De retour en Italie où il sollicite sa réhabilitation, il se retrouve en prison, mais voit sa peine allégée en devenant l'indic d'Anedda, commissaire de police respecté mais véreux. À peine libéré, il tombe dans le monde de la nuit et escroque le patron d'un club de strip-tease. Mais Giorgio a d'autres ambitions : monter un très gros coup avec la complicité du corrompu Anedda...
Caos calmo
by Antonello Grimaldi
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3 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in Italian and French and held by 3 libraries worldwide La mort soudaine de son épouse Lara bouleverse la vie heureuse de Pietro, jusque-là comblé par sa famille et son travail. Le jour de la rentrée, Pietro accompagne sa fille Claudia. Il décide subitement de lattendre. Il se réfugie dans sa voiture, garée en face de lécole primaire. Il fait de même le lendemain et les jours suivants. Il attend que la douleur se manifeste et observe le monde. Il découvre petit à petit les facettes cachées des gens qui lentourent et labordent. Ses chefs, ses collègues, ses parents, ses amis, tous cherchent à comprendre <<ce drôle de chaos calme>> qui lhabite...
Due partite
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1 edition published in 2009 in Italian and held by 3 libraries worldwide "Set in the 1960s, four female friends share their feelings, hopes and dreams over canasta. As they play, humiliations and frustrations emerge, lives of freedom and passion given up to become suffocated housewives with children to raise, surrounded by betrayals and lies. Thirty years later, the women's four daughters are brought together after one of the mothers has committed suicide"--Baseline StudioSystems.
Caos calmo (2008)
by Antonello Grimaldi
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2 editions published in 2008 in Mongolian and Italian and held by 2 libraries worldwide Pietro has just lost his wife, and he is left alone with their young daughter. He promises the girl that he will wait for her in the car when she returns to school for the first time, but then his temporary offer turns into habit. Now Pietro spends his days in his car, watching the world around him and grieving in his own way.
Stilles Chaos Caos calmo
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1 edition published in 2009 in German and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Il seme della discordia
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1 edition published in 2008 in Italian and held by 2 libraries worldwide The story is about Veronica (Murino), a self-assured young boutique owner who finds out that she is pregnant at the same time that Mario (Gassman), her fertiliser-salesman husband, discovers he is infertile.
Die süße Kunst des Müßiggangs Dolce far niente
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1 edition published in 2001 in German and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Holokausto
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1 edition published in 2003 in French and held by 2 libraries worldwide En la parte trasera de una tienda, dos hombres se encuentran jugando ajedrez, Joseph, dueño del inmueble y Sam, un Inspector de Policía. La partida es interrumpida por un cliente al cual Katz asesina sin ningún miramiento, explicándole a Sam que el hombre era un oficial de la SS llamado Guter y que había ejecutado a todos los miembros de su familia en Berlin durante la guerra.
Distretto di polizia. 1, Disc 1-3
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1 edition published in 2005 in Italian and held by 1 library worldwide Police drama series.
Nanni Moretti in Stilles Chaos ein heiteres Märchen
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1 edition published in 2009 in German and held by 1 library worldwide
Quiet chaos (2008)
by Antonello Grimaldi
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1 edition published in 2009 in Italian and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in 2003 in French and held by 1 library worldwide "Sam, thirty, is an inspector with the crime squad. For more than twenty years now, he's been playing chess with Joseph Katz, an old second-hand dealer and former concentration camp prisoner. He loves him like his own father. That morning, before his very eyes, Katz cold-bloodedly shoots a German tourist who entered his shop by chance. He recognized him as the SS officer who was responsible for the massacre of his family fifty years earlier. Sam feels unable to arrest his friend. He lets the old man go in the street. A few hours later, Katz commits suicide. Unless he was in fact murdered... From Paris to Berlin, from Hamburg to Jerusalem, Sam's investigation takes an increasingly disturbing turn. A manhunt, a series of murders, dealings in works of art stolen from the Jews by the Nazis... "--UniFrance web stie. more
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Accidents Bereavement Burglars Children--Death Comedy films Comedy films Criminal behavior Dinners and dining Donation of organs, tissues, etc. Drama Drama Ex-convicts Fathers and daughters Feature films Feature films Fiction Fiction films Film adaptations Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Foreign films Friendship Gay couples Great Britain Grief Grief in men Italy Man-woman relationships Melodrama Motion pictures, French Motion pictures, Italian Nazis Police corruption Relics Revenge Television cop shows Television series Videodiscs Video recordings Video recordings for the hearing impaired Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Widowers
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Italian
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German (8) French (8) English (1) Undetermined (1) Mongolian (1) Multiple languages (1) Spanish (1) Covers
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