SD CINEMATOGRAFICA was formed in 1961 as a production company. Since its founding, the company has produced Films, Variety Programmes, and Science and Cultural documentaries for the Italian public broadcaster RAI and other leading international television companies. In recent years the company has focused on wildlife, Science and History documentaries with such success that it now counts National Geographic Channels, Discovery Channels, TF1, ARTE, NHK, TSR, ARD/BR, PBS and ZDF, as well as RAI and Mediaset, among its clients. Many SD documentaries have won major international prizes at the world’s leading festivals, including Academy Award, Emmy and Banff nominations. Today SD Cinematografica has over 800 hours of programming to its name. [abs]
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Antonello Belluco
Venicefilm Production
52 minutes
HD
October, 1510: Taddeo Albano, Venetian merchant and trusted partner of Isabella D'Este, the duchess of Mantua, is requested by the lady to find and buy the "Nocte" painting by Giorgione, for her private collection. This is how the journey of Taddeo begins, at the pursuit of the masterpiece of the mysterious painter.
Along the way, he will find most of the landscapes and the people Giorgione visited throughout his life: from Castelfranco to Asolo, from nobles who commissioned several of his paintings to Venetian intellectual circles he frequented, from his colleagues Titian and Catena to the parties of the Calza's company.