Marco Bellocchio
Also Known As: Марко Беллоккьо, Марко Беллоккио, 마르코 벨로키오, 마르코 벨로치오
Biography: Marco Bellocchio (Italian: [ˈmarko belˈlɔkkjo]; born 9 November 1939; Bobbio) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher. He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, making his first film, Fists in the Pocket, (I pugni in tasca, winner of the Silver Sail at the 1965 Festival del film Locarno), funded by family members and shot on family property, in 1965. Bellocchio's films include China Is Near (1967), Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Slap the Monster on Page One) (1972), Nel Nome del Padre (In the name of the Father – a satire on a Catholic boarding school that shares affinities with Lindsay Anderson's If....) (1972), Victory March (1976), A Leap in the Dark (1980), Henry IV (1984), Devil in the Flesh (1986), and My Mother's Smile (2002), which told the story of a wealthy Italian artist, a 'default-Marxist and atheist', who suddenly discovers that the Vatican is proposing to make his detested mother a saint. In 1991 he won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for his film The Conviction. In 1995 he directed a documentary about the Red Brigades and the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, titled Broken Dreams. In 2003, he directed a feature film on the same theme, Good Morning, Night. In 2006 his film The Wedding Director was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. In 1999, he was awarded with an Honorable Prize for the contribution to cinema at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. In 2009 he directed Vincere, which was in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. He finished Sorelle Mai, an experimental film that was shot over ten years with the students of six separate workshops playing themselves. He was awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September 2011. His 2012 film Dormant Beauty was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.[6] On 6 September 2012, Bellocchio condemned the Catholic Church's interference in politics after the premiere of his controversial film about a high-profile euthanasia case. The film approaches the topic of euthanasia and the difficulty with legislation on end of life in Italy, which has Vatican City within its borders. The subject is inspired by Eluana Englaro's case. Following the decision of the jury of the Venice Film Festival, which excluded the film from the Golden Lion, Bellocchio has expressed strong criticism against President Michael Mann.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Bobbio, Piacenza, Italy
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Birthday: November 09, 1939
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Male
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Opera Prima
Overview: Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an investigation on the first work of six of the most authoritative and beloved Italian directors. The result is an unpublished and precious document that reveals the emotions and expectations of directors grappling with their cinematic debut. Mario Monicelli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lina Wertmüller, Marco Bellocchio, Liliana Cavani and Francesca Archibugi offer a still current evolution on the needs and difficulties of making cinema in our country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-28
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Cinéma et Réalité
Overview: In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Lo Spazio Inquieto
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-12-01
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Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
Overview: Documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-06-17
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Vacation in Val Trebbia
Overview: Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself with one's past, as well as with the nostalgia of an era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-30
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Slap the Monster on Page One
Overview: Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-19
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Tutto in comune
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Seagull
Overview: A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-07-02
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My Mother's Smile
Overview: A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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Caro Paolo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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Mother
Overview: The extremely mawkish hides something extremely violent.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Ennio
Overview: A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-02-17
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Raffa
Overview: An account of the life and artistic career of Raffaella Carrà (1943-2021), Italian pop star and television personality, told through the voices of those who knew her best.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-07-06
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Behind the Scenes: The Traitor
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-22
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Francis of Assisi
Overview: A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Colpiti al cuore
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-11-26
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La mia casa e i miei coinquilini - Il lungo viaggio di Joyce Lussu
Overview: Marco Bellocchio in his interview with Joyce in 1994 talks about his attitude towards life devoid of dreams and illusions, but extremely active, asking her how it is possible to transmit the extraordinary things that she has lived. Her straw handbag still hanging on a door of her room, the cuckoo of the room, the wicker rocking chair, her colored combs resting in the bathroom near the mirror, the Sardinian carpets, the flowers that Angela always puts on the kitchen table, the reeds dancing with the wind. Joyce's house in Fermo, in the Marche region, is a house that breathes life, a life many times dramatic but also rich in poetry. The period of exile with Emilio Lussu in Paris, the struggles of women in Sardinia, the translations of poets who wrote "useful poetry", the one that comes directly, without too many words, to the knowledge of other realities and to sentiment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-18
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Love and Anger
Overview: Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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Voi siete qui
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Planet Venus
Overview: Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome he meets Amelia, a child suffocated by the bourgeois environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-27
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A Need for Change: The Making of 'Fists in the Pocket'
Overview: Documentary on the making of Marco Bellocchio's first film as a director, 'Fists in the Pocket'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-07-07
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Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Lino Micciché, mio padre - Una visione del mondo
Overview: A documentary focused on film critic Lino Micciché, as seen from the point of view of his friends and his son Francesco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera
Overview: A documentary about the making of "Buongiorno, notte" and the films and politics of director Marco Bellocchio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
Overview: Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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A un millimetro dal cuore
Overview: A strange encounter with an unknown man from a story a harpist tells to his friend during a recording session.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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N.P. - The Secret
Overview: A prophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. In this fact lies the potential for the marxist liberation of the productive forces and the and the industrial genocide.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-26
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I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto
Overview: Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Overview: How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2005-07-17
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Fit to Be Untied
Overview: This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-13
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Glauber, Claro
Overview: A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Marcello, una vita dolce
Overview: After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-21
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Behind Love and Anger
Overview: Documentary about the anthology film Love and Anger (1969) with interviews with Carlo Lizzani (director of the segment "L'indifferenza"), Marco Bellocchio (director of the segment "Discutiamo, discussamo"), Maurizio Ponzi (assistant director of the segment " La sequenza del fiore di carta," by Pier Paolo Pasolini), and Roberto Perpignani (editor of the segment "Agonia," by Bernardo Bertolucci).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Marx Can Wait
Overview: "Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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What Do You Know About Me
Overview: Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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Journey into the Twilight
Overview: A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Cesare Zavattini
Overview: Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-09-23
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Tutte le storie di Piera
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-06-26
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