Cristo si è fermato a Eboli [DVD] / Cristaldifilm ; La RAI, Radiotelevisione italiana presenta ; di Francesco Rosi ; prodotto da Franco Cristaldi ; scenegiattura, Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Raffaele La Capria ; una produzione associata RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana TV-2, Vides cinematografica ; prodotto da Franco Cristaldi e Nicola Carraro ; regia, Francesco Rosi.
Format:
[DVD] /
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Title and credits from screen. Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas, François Simon. Based on the book by Carlo Levi. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio). Special features: New interview with subtitle translator Michael F. Moore; Reflections on a political cinema: documentary from 1998; Bad earth: excerpt from a 1974 documentary featuring Rosi and author Carlo Levi; Unico: Rosi remembers Gian Maria Volontè; trailer; booklet featuring an essay by Alexander Stille and a 1979 director's statement.
Summary:
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi₂s sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi discovers an Italy he never knew existed.
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