In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to ...
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Title: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1979)
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| Gian Maria Volontè | ... | Carlo Levi | |
| Paolo Bonacelli | ... | Don Luigi Magalone | |
| Alain Cuny | ... | Barone Nicola Rotunno | |
| Lea Massari | ... | Luisa Levi | |
| Irene Papas | ... | Giulia Venere | |
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François Simon | ... | Don Traiella |
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Accursio Di Leo | ... | Joiner |
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Francesco Callari | ||
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Enzo Vitale | ... | Dottore Milillo (as Vincenzo Vitale) |
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Antonio Allocca | ... | Don Cosimino |
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Vincenzo Licata | ... | L'italo-americano |
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Muzzi Loffredo | ||
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Lidia Bavusi | ||
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In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation. Written by Benjamin Bergery <bbjamin@micronet.fr>
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interwar period | kingdom of italy | fascist italy | campania | lucania italy |Genres:
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ItalianRelease Date:
23 February 1979 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
Christ Stopped at Eboli See more »Company Credits
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Carlo Levi: Yes, I would. But it's not easy.
Luisa Levi: Come on, don't exaggerate. Don't tell me that here even finding a cleaning lady is impossible.
Carlo Levi: Here a woman wouldn't go in the house of a single man. Just spending time together implies sleeping together.
Luisa Levi: You can't be serious.
Carlo Levi: Oh, yes I am.
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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. See more »Goofs
On the bus, the way Carlo holds the dog changes. See more »Quotes
Luisa Levi: You'd need a woman here.Carlo Levi: Yes, I would. But it's not easy.
Luisa Levi: Come on, don't exaggerate. Don't tell me that here even finding a cleaning lady is impossible.
Carlo Levi: Here a woman wouldn't go in the house of a single man. Just spending time together implies sleeping together.
Luisa Levi: You can't be serious.
Carlo Levi: Oh, yes I am.
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This dutiful, detailed three-and-a-half TV epic describes the exile of dissident intellectual Carlo Levi in a remote village of fascist Italy, blighted by poverty, disease, immirgration and governmental contempt. The film is part-character study, part-socio-historico-political analysis, part careful representation of a people and its place. It is seriously flawed (the people are sentimentalised, the politics are simplistic, the pleasant presentation (music, major actors, cinematography etc.) works against the horrifiic subject matter); but there are nice ironies too, such as the Christlike Levi capable of the fascism he deplores.
The film can be seen in two contexts, as a neo-realist riposte to the prominent anti-realist 70s films about Fascism ('The Spider's Strategem', 'The Conformist', 'Amarcord'), and as a prestigious historical epic on a national theme frequent in the 70s and 80s ('The Travelling Players', 'Heimat'). In both cases it falls short.