Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ιταλία Γαλλία/Italy, France, 1982, 93 ́, 35mm, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/sound

Giovanni, a famous actor, returns to his small-town family home after the suicide of his brother. His mother remains a religious fanatic and his older brother has a cold relationship with his children and his wife. When Giovanni goes to berate his dead brother’s companion for not even coming to his funeral, an intensive and haunted relationship develops between them.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Marco Bellocchio
Σενάριο/Screenplay Marco Bellocchio
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Giuseppe Lanci
Μοντάζ/Editing: Sergio Nutii
Μουσική/Music: Nicolas Piovani
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Lou Castel, Angela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli, Antonio Piovanelli
Παραγωγή/Production: Odyssia, Gaumont, Paris in collaboration with RAI 2
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Viggo/Cinecittà

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ιταλία/Italy, 2006, 97 ́, 35mm, 1.85:1, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/sound

Franco Elica is a film director, who is attempting a remake of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel The Betrothed, a landmark in Italian literature. From the problems during the production, Bellocchio makes a heartfelt critique of the state of the Italian movie industry. Moreover, Ernesto is troubled by his daughter’s marriage with a devout Catholic. In Sicily, where he has fled, he meets a wedding director and a nobleman. The wedding of the nobleman’s daughter will turn out eventful.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Marco Bellocchio
Σενάριο/Screenplay Marco Bellocchio
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Pasquale Mari
Μοντάζ/Editing: Francesca Calvelli
Μουσική/Music: Riccardo Giagni
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey, Bruno Cariello, Gianni Cavina
Παραγωγή/Production: Filmalbatros, Rai Cinema
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Celluloid Dreams/ Cinecittà

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ιταλία/Italy, 2003, 106 ́, 35mm, 1.85:1, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/sound

The film, from a subjective point of view, dramatises a very important event in the history of contemporary Italy. Chiara, a member of the Red Brigades, is involved in the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, former Christian Democrat prime minister, in 1978. While the kidnappers hold Moro hostage in the apartment she rents, Chiara lives almost normally her every day life, until she gradually starts to question her ideological beliefs and the morality of the end justifying the means.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Marco Bellocchio
Σενάριο/Screenplay Marco Bellocchio, Daniela Ceselli
Φωτογραφία/Cinematography: Pasquale Mari
Μοντάζ/Editing: Francesca Calvelli
Μουσική/Music: Riccardo Giagni
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
Παραγωγή/Production: Filmalbatros, Rai Cinema
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Rai Cinema/Cinecittà

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ιταλία/Italy, 1965, 105 ́, 35mm, α/μ/b&w, Με ήχο/sound

In this astonishing debut of Marco Bellocchio, a young man, tormented by twisted desires, takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions. With its coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality. A truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Marco Bellocchio
Σενάριο/Screenplay Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Bazzini, Peter Berling
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Alberto Marrama
Μοντάζ/Editing: Silvano Agosti
Μουσική/Music: Ennio Morricone
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Pier Luigi Troglio
Παραγωγή/ Production: Enzo Doria
Πηγή κόπιας/ Print source: The Match Factory / Cinecittà

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ιταλία/Italy, 1976, 118′, 35mm, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/sound

With his caustic humor, Bellocchio in this film explores the games of subordination and sexuality. Paolo Passeri, a cultivated and educated young man, is having a bad time in his military service, under the command of neurotic Captain Asciutto, and due to the bullying he endures from the seniors. Captain Asciutto’s galloping neurosis escalates, not only because of his military conception of “true men”, but also due to the whims and vices of his young and sexy wife. Paolo, a confident by now of his superior, is ordered to spy on her.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Marco Bellocchio
Σενάριο/Screenplay Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Bazzini, Peter Berling
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Franco Di Giacomo
Μοντάζ/Editing: Sergio Montanari
Μουσική/Music: Nicola Piovani
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Franco Nero, Michele Placido, Miou Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Nino Bignamini
Παραγωγή/ Production: Clesi Cinematografica, Renn
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Ameuropa International/Cinecittà, Renn Productions

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Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, Ιταλία/Italy, 2002, 105 ́, 35mm, Έγχρ./Color, Με ήχο/sound

Ernesto is a successful painter, an ex-communist and profoundly atheist. He is involved in the beatification of his mother that has been requested by his brothers. As if this were not sufficient, his son wants to go to religious education classes at school because he wants to fit in with his peers. His mother’s memory, her beguiling smile, opens up a whirl of unexpected events. Ernesto will have to revise the past and face the present.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction: Marco Bellocchio
Σενάριο/Screenplay Marco Bellocchio
Φωτογραφία/ Cinematography: Pasquale Mari
Μοντάζ/Editing: Francesca Calvelli
Μουσική/Music: Riccardo Giagni
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig, Chiara Conti, Gigio Alberti, Alberto Mondini
Παραγωγή/ Production: Filmalbatros, Rai Cinema
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source: Cinecittà

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