Marco Bellocchio

Known for DirectingBorn 1939-11-09 (age 86)Bobbio, Piacenza, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Glauber, Claro

Filmstudio, mon amour

Same rage, same spring

Broken Dreams: Reasoning and Delirium

Culpability and Punishment

Ennio

Raffa

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Exterior Night

Esterno Notte (part II)

Esterno Notte (part I)

Alfabeto italiano

Portobello

Fit to Be Untied

Farewell to the Past

The Traitor

La macchina cinema

Rosebush Pruning

Kidnapped

Marx Can Wait

Fists in the Pocket

Slap the Monster on Page One

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

Behind the Scenes: The Traitor

If I May

My Mother's Smile

The Time It Takes

Down With Uncle

What Do You Know About Me

Good Morning, Night

It Was the Son

Colpiti al cuore

N.P. - The Secret

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Vacation in Val Trebbia

Vincere

Tutto in comune

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

Planet Venus

Sweet Dreams

Battlefield

Ginepro Became a Man

The Nanny

Dormant Beauty

The Prince of Homburg

All for a Rose

Henry IV