Alberto Bevilacqua Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter, Book Author

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Papa Rua Alguem 5555

Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Charlton Heston, F. Murray Abraham, Thomas Heinze, Alberto Bevilacqua

2004
La Donna Delle Meraviglie

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Lina Sastri, Claudia Cardinale, Orazio Orlando, Flavio Bucci

Synopsis: In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His Read More

9/6/85
Bosco D'Amore

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Guerritore, Rodolfo Bigotti, Stanko Molnar, Enzo Robutti, Chris Avram

Synopsis: The time is the mid-14th century --- the Pope is now residing at Avignon, the Black Death is killing millions across Europe, and civil wars are adding to the turmoil and chaos. In this story adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a young teenage couple is sent to live in a nearby town by the Read More

12/10/81
Le Rose Di Danzica

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Helmut Berger, Olga Karlatos, Macha Meril, Roberto Posse

Synopsis: Set in 1919, this confusing, slow-paced, labyrinthian political drama focuses primarily on the confrontation between two military leaders, Konrad von der Berg (Franco Nero) and Erich von Lehner (Helmut Berger). The implication is that the outcome of their meeting will determine whether Germany Read More

11/23/79
Attenti al Buffone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Eli Wallach, Mariangela Melato, Enzo Cannavale

Synopsis: In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man's wife as his own. Unlike David, however, Ras wants to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined. He forces Marcello Read More

12/20/75
Questa Specie D'Amore

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Seberg, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Written and directed by Italian filmmaker Alberto Bevilacqua, Questa Specie D'Amore (This Kind of Love) illustrates the difficulties one runs into when one attempts detached intellectualism. Ugo Tognazzi plays the son of a 1930s-era anti-fascist (also played by Tognazzi) who had suffered mightily Read More

2/10/72
La Califfa

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Here the director adapts his own novel about Mira (Romy Schneider), a firebrand of a woman, who moves from being a ferocious labor organizer to being the mistress of her town's factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi). Labor negotiations provide a background for their brief but devastating romantic affair. Read More

12/31/70
Planet of the Vampires

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Angel Aranda, Evi Marandi, Fernando Villena

Synopsis: This classic blend of science-fiction and horror belies its extremely low budget with buckets of atmosphere and some genuinely creepy setpieces. The story concerns the crews of two spaceships, who land on a foggy, seemingly deserted planet. What they don't know is that the planet was home to a Read More

9/15/65
The Eye of the Needle

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Gérard Blain, Gino Cervi

Synopsis: Two Sicilian bachelors deflower a virgin and find themselves in hot-water with her shot-gun slinging father in this Italian comedy. They are also in trouble with the local carabinieri. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
La Mia Signora

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi co-stars with Silvia Mangano in this Dino DeLaurentiis comedy production gang-directed by Tinto Brass, Mauro Bolognini, and Luigi Comenichi. The sketches primarily deal with the endearing battles between husbands and wives, giving Sordi the chance to mug for the camera in the comic Read More

10/29/64
Black Sabbath

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Boris Karloff, Michele Mercier, Mark Damon, Lydia Alfonsi, Jacqueline Pierreux

Synopsis: This anthology features three chilling horror stories. "Il Telefono" is credited to Guy de Maupassant, although he never wrote such a story, and concerns a woman (Michele Mercier) receiving telephone calls from beyond the grave. "Wurdulak", by Alexei Tolstoi, stars Boris Karloff as an aging Read More

8/17/63
Atom Age Vampire

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni, Franca Parisi Strahl

Synopsis: A less-stylish variant on Franju's classic Les Yeux Sans Visage, this low-budget Italian production borrows heavily from that film's plot to tell the tale of a scientist who employs a radical new procedure to restore the beauty of a young hoochie-koochie dancer disfigured in a car accident. All Read More

1961