Minerva is one of the leading publishers in Italy as its
excellent revenue results show. With an aggressive and targeted acquisition
policy, it has remarkable business-growth perspectives. The sectors of main
interest have been differentiated with different registered trademarks. All
Trademarks follow criteria of the highest quality, both for technical standards
and critical content, and they all present several world premieres in the home
video format (VHS and DVD).
MINERVA CLASSIC: The memory of Italian
cinema. Classic Titles from the 50's to 80's made by master directors such as
Antonioni, Rossellini,Zeffirelli, Pasolini, Ferreri, Rosi..
MINERVA VIDEO: International mainstream
feature. For instance "The Lawnmower" Man by Brett Leonard, based upon Stephen
King's best seller; "The Legend of Rita" by Volker Schlondorff, Silver Berlin
Bear in 2000; "Mean Streets" by Martin Scorsese; winner of 4 Oscars "Driving
Miss Daisy" by Bruce Beresford; "Henry V" by Kenneth Branagh.
RARO VIDEO: "Rare" titles belonging to
cross-disciplinary areas, moving beyond experimental cinema to video art,
animated films, to new media languages and other forms of the universe of
audiovisual experimentation. Among them "Derek Jarman, Volume 1, The Super8
Programme" which collects several works in the smaller format by the great
British filmmaker; "The Chelsea Girls" by Andy Warhol; "El Topo" and "The Holy
Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky; "The Element of Crime", "Epidemic" and
"Europa" by Lars von Trier and many more.
HORROR CLUB: Horror cult movies directed
by masters like Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci and Peter Jackson.