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Stories Set in Genoa
A republic of bankers and sailors that once rivaled Venice, Genoa still runs vertically from harbor to hills in a maze of alleys. Columbus sailed from here; the 2001 G8 summit burned it into modern memory. Diaz reconstructs those three days; Street Law works the docks. Open Genoa on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 6 books and 12 movies set in Genoa.
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
On July 19–21 2001 over 200000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after…
Days and Clouds
Set in Genoa the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of…
Street Law
Carlo Antonelli an engineer from Genoa gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand but then he's helped by Tommy a young robber who takes his side.
Genova
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother while…
The Mouth of the Wolf
Pietro Marcello directs this genre-defying Italian docudrama that follows mustachioed ex-con Enzo as he returns to Genoa after a long stint in prison only to find that the city he once loved has changed almost beyond…
Cosimo and Nicole
Cosimo is Italian Nicole French. They meet in Genoa during the G8 protests and immediately fall in love. Swept off their feet by an overwhelming and uncontrollable passion they decide never to part. After much wandering…
Attention! Bandits!
During the winter of 1944 the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile there's a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to…
A Thread of Grace
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette…
The Passion of Artemisia
From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's colleague, torture by the Inquisition,…
The Walls of Malapaga
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
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