Marco BellocchioFilmography

Born:: November 9, 1939 in Piacenza, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: After making short films and documentaries in the early 1960s, Bellocchio won international fame with his first feature, the powerful incest drama I Pugni In Tasca (aka Fist in His Pocket). Other stylish and provocative political dramas followed, most notably La Cina E Vicina (China is Near) and Nel Nome Del Padre...Read More

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Vincere

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fabrizio Costella, Michela Cescon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Filippo Timi

Synopsis: This unusual and offbeat historical drama rests on a little-known conceit. Though seldom discussed in history books (and reportedly undisclosed for half a century) fascist dictator Benito Mussolini conceived an illegitimate son, by a woman named Ida Dalser - a son Mussolini allowed to be born Read More

5/20/09
The Wedding Director

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey, Gianni Cavina, Bruno Cariello

Synopsis: After ending up in a scenic Sicilian town while trying to avoid his daughter's impending wedding to a devout Catholic, a famous film director becomes inexorably involved in the nuptials of another beautiful bride-to-be in director Marco Bellocchio's semi-surreal drama. Though he tries to keep a Read More

6/4/08
Marcello: A Sweet Life

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ettore Scola, Armando Trovajoli, Chiara Mastroianni, Barbara Mastroianni

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A favorite of such directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Mastroianni's fame in Europe extended to the United States, where he was nominated Read More

2006
Buongiorno, Notte

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia, Piergiorgio Bellocchio

Synopsis: A young couple, Chiara (Maya Sansa) and Ernesto (Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, the director's son), follow a real estate agent through a nicely secluded apartment, which they subsequently rent. They then begin doing some strange renovations. It turns out that they're not a couple at all. They're Read More

11/11/05
My Mother's Smile

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig, Chiara Conti, Alberto Mondini, Gianni Schicchi

Synopsis: Ernesto (Sergio Castellitto of Va Savoir) is a successful artist and devout atheist who finds out that his mother, whom he despised, is being considered for sainthood. Ernesto's young son, Leonardo (Alberto Mondini), influenced by his religion teacher, has developed a fear of God, whom he tries to Read More

2/11/05
The Nanny

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Maya Sansa, Jacqueline Lustig, Piergiorgio Bellocchio

Synopsis: One of the masters of Italian cinema, Marco Bellocchio, who has made his name with political films, has been continuing his work with mostly adaptations from literature. La Balia, inspired by a novella of Luigi Pirandello, continues this tradition. The period costume drama takes place during a Read More

1999
The Prince of Homburg

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrea Di Stefano

Synopsis: During the Thirty Years War between Germany and Sweden in the 1600s, a young prince must choose whether to continue to pursue his private fantasies of becoming a romantic hero or to face the public responsibilities and obligations of his position. The resulting tale is one part costume drama, one Read More

1997
Il Sogno Della Farfalla

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Thierry Blanc, Simona Cavallari, Bibi Andersson, Roberto Herlitzka, Henry Arnold

Synopsis: This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a young classical actor's decision to stop talking. No one knows why Massimo has vowed to stop talking. Other than speaking dialog from classical plays Read More

1994
La Condanna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Claire Nebout, Grazyna Szapolowska

Synopsis: This unusual film looks at the issue of rape from the male point of view, in particular one man's nightmare of being unfairly accused of the crime and having no recourse against the accusations of a persuasive "victim." In this drama, a student finds herself locked in a museum after closing time Read More

1990
La Visione Del Sabba

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Ezralow, Omero Antonutti, Roberta Palladine

Synopsis: Davide (Daniel Ezralow) is a young psychiatrist who is tormented by his own dreams in this psychological drama. Maddalena (Beatrice Dalle) is a beautiful but disturbed mental patient who resembles a woman Davide dreamed was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft. Davide soon has Read More

2/26/88
The Cinema Machine

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As a sardonic jab at the worst aspects of the film industry, Macchina Cinema uses interviews and scenes of auditions for porno movies, as well as a segment on amateur filmmakers, to put across the point that there may be casualties in some of the less-admirable pursuits and behavior of people in Read More

3/9/87
Il Diavolo in Corpo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi, Riccardo de Torrebruna, Anna Orso

Synopsis: Bearing no particular relation to any literary or cinematic work of the same title, this erotic drama by Marco Bellocchio uses sexual expression to work out a character's hang-ups, problems, and personality. Andrea (Federico Ptizalis) is in his last year of high school when he meets Giulia (Maruschka Detmers Read More

4/22/86
Henry IV

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Luciano Bartoli, Latou Chardons, Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis: This Italian version of Henry IV is based on the Luigi Pirandello play rather than Shakespeare's historical work. Moreover, the Henry depicted herein is not the English king, but the 11th-century Holy Roman emperor. In addition, central character Marcello Mastroianni doesn't play emperor Henry Read More

5/24/84
Gli Occhi, la bocca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Piccoli, Antonio Piovanelli

Synopsis: Giovanni (Lou Castel) comes home after his brother's suicide to encounter the same family problems that have been around for years: his mother is a religious fanatic now obsessed with her son's errant spirit, his older brother has a cold and uncaring relationship with his children and his wife Read More

9/10/82
Salto nel Vuoto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Michele Placido, Gisella Burinato

Synopsis: The old Guy De Maupassant story The Devil would seem to be the springboard for the Italian-made Leap Into the Void. Michel Piccoli plays an Italian jurist whose sister Anouk Aimee is a bit "light in the belfry". Piccoli entreats Michele Placido to convince the awkward Aimee to kill herself. The Read More

2/14/80
Vacanze In Val Trebbia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Piergiorgio Bellocchio, Gisella Burinato, Marco Bellocchio

Synopsis: A mix of reality, fiction, documentary, and fantasy make up this personal, semi-autobiographical statement from director {$Marco Bellocchio). While vacationing in Val Trebbia, Bellocchio has a (fictional) falling-out with his wife. This contretemps is offset by the arrival of friends for the usual Read More

1978
Il Gabbiano

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laura Betti, Giulio Brogi, Pamela Villoresi, Remo Girone

Synopsis: 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 Read More

10/7/77
Marcia Trionfale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Miou-Miou, Michele Placido, Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri (Michele Placido) is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto (Franco Nero). He gradually becomes Read More

3/12/76
Matti Da Slegare

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 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. Both patients -- chosen for their ability to talk before a camera -- and sponsors in the Read More

1/13/76
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange

Synopsis: The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade's most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who Read More

1/10/76
Sbatti Il Mostro in Prima Pagina

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A major Milanese newspaper publisher makes moves to frame a student protest leader for the murder of a young college coed. This political thriller takes the student and political unrest of the late '60s and early '70s in Italy as its background. It includes previously unseen documentary footage of Read More

10/19/72
In Nome del Padre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Set in a Catholic boy's school, this wearisome tale concerns a group of obnoxious rich students and their pompous headmasters. The film tries hard to be an allegory of the anti-establishment social atmosphere of the early 1970s, evidently attempting to prove that Mankind is basically bestial by Read More

1971
Amore e Rabbia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nino Castelnuovo, Ninetto Davoli, Tom Baker

Synopsis: This obscure film is directed by five well-known cinematographers. "Apathy" is directed by Carlo Lizzani and concerns a New York rape victim whose cries for help fall on deaf ears. Bernardo Bertolucci directs "Agony." Members of the Living Theater mime death scenes. In "The Paper Flower Sequence," Read More

1969
La Cina è Vicina

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi, Daniela Surina, Pierluigi Apra

Synopsis: In this Italian satire a poli sci professor from a large, wealthy family stirs up turmoil amongst his family and friends when he decides to run for office on the Socialist party ticket. His brother the Maoist tries to thwart his endeavors. Other family members get involved in the struggle for Read More

9/22/67
I Pugni in Tasca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Pier Luigi Troglio

Synopsis: Considered one of the great lost classics of Italian neo-realism, this bleak drama was the debut feature of filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Lou Castel stars as Alessandro, an epileptic from a large family of similarly afflicted siblings, headed up by a blind matriarch (Liliana Gerace). The only Read More

10/31/65