"Actor: Gabriel Garko"

• Black Angel (Senso '45) | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £8.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (135.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italy - 1945: The war and Fascism is coming to and end. Livia, the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz, an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair. During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny.Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but amongst the madness, a surprise awaits Livia... a surprise that sees her personal setbacks reflected in historic and political events.

• Le Fate Ignoranti | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ozpetek the director of 'Hamam: Turkish Bath' has lived in the melting pot Ostiense district of Rome for 15 years and sets his third film there with considerable observational skill. That's one of the pleasures of his story which has two of Italy's best actors in parts that require the kind of concentration few others could sustain. Antonia is a middle class and happily married wife devastated by her husband's sudden death and further sent into depresssion when she discovers an ol

• Callas Forever | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At the beginning of this engrossing story Larry Kelly (the delectable Jeremy Irons) has become a manager of rock bands - much easier to handle he asserts than a temperamental opera star. Managing Maria Callas's late career has left him scorched by the star's brilliant fire. Visiting her palatial Paris apartment Kelly is shocked to find a broken and reclusive Callas humiliated by the deterioration of her voice. Determined to re-ignite her passion and restore her legacy he convinces her to take on an important project: a film of the opera Carmen in which she will lip-sync her own glorious recording of many years previous. Thus begins a reawakening of their former relationship mixing creative passion genius and drive in an incendiary cocktail. The stars are ably supported by a feisty Joan Plowright as their mutually supportive journalist friend newcomer Jay Rodan as Larry's handsome artist boyfriend and a wonderfully steamy performance from sexy Gabriel Garko as the tenor who worships Callas and yearns for his own opportunity for greatness. The special relationship between Callas (a luminous Fanny Ardant reprising her stage portrayal) and her former manager forms the heart of this compelling fictional imagining of the diva's swan song written and directed by the late Callas's friend and colleague Franco Zeffirelli (ROMEO AND JULIET) in a worthy tribute to his legendary friend