Paolo Stoppa

High Time

The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to…

The King's Guerrillas

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra D…

The Thief of Venice

A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.…

The Beauty of the Devil

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at t…

Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!

Fabiola

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gl…

I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.…

Che tempi!

Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor,…

Fumeria d’oppio

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of so…