In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras’ struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power…Read More »
Marco Bellocchio
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Marco Bellocchio – Rapito AKA Kidnapped (2023)
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Marco Bellocchio – Il gabbiano aka The Seagull (1977)
1971-1980ClassicsDramaItalyMarco BellocchioAn Italian adaptation of The Sea Gull by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother (Laura Betti) and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character. After the young man in this story suffers the loss of his mistress to his self-satisfied novelist stepfather, his self-respect is so shattered that he commits suicide.Read More » -
Marco Bellocchio – Nel nome del padre AKA In the Name of the Father (1971)
1971-1980DramaItalyMarco BellocchioIn 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – Fai bei sogni AKA Sweet Dreams (2016)
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With the innocuously titled Sweet Dreams (Fai bei sogni), Italian director Marco Bellocchio stages a gentle, eminently watchable return to some of the key themes that have haunted his 50 years of filmmaking, particularly the scarring left by a dysfunctional family and maternal love gone awry. The story of a 9-year-old boy who loses his beloved mother is a much simpler, more direct film than the thematically rich My Mother’s Smile (2002), and has none of the churning family anger of Fists in His Pocket (1965). But based on journalist Massimo Gramellini’s best-selling autobiographical novel, it has an emotional unity and urgency that holds the attention, only flagging in the last innings of a surprisingly compact drama running well over two hours.Read More » -
Marco Bellocchio – Marx può aspettare AKA Marx Can Wait (2021) (HD)
2021-2030DocumentaryItalyMarco BellocchioA personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director’s twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – Esterno notte AKA Exterior Night (2022)
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The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades as seen by an outsider perspective, that of his family and political allies.Read More » -
Marco Bellocchio – Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina AKA Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
1971-1980DramaItalyMarco BellocchioPoliticsA populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.
Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Italian: “Slam the Monster on the Frontpage”) is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio.Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – Marx può aspettare AKA Marx Can Wait (2021)
2021-2030DocumentaryItalyMarco Bellocchio“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.
A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director’s twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – L’uomo dal Fiore in Bocca AKA The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (1993)
Marco Bellocchio1991-2000DramaItalyTVFrom RaiPlay:
“L’uomo dal Fiore in Bocca”, a single act by Luigi Pirandello staged for the first time in 1922, is one of the most intense plays by the great Nobel prize-winning playwright. It’s a dialogue at a coffee station between a man with a tumor and a dull and indifferent customer. The director of this difficult television adaptation of 1993 of the play by Pirandello is Marco Bellocchio, while the protagonist is Michele Placido, flanked by Antonino Bellomo.Read More »