Marco Bellocchio
November 9, 1939 · 86 years old
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…
Known For
11 titles
The Traitor
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
Ennio
A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
Vincere
The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
Fists in the Pocket
A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
Devil in the Flesh
A sizzling, erotic thriller about a triangle between a teenage boy, an older woman an her fiance, an imprisoned terrorist, set in a world of intrigue, betrayal and erotic pleasure, from which may be no escape.
Esterno notte
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Dormant Beauty
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Marx Can Wait
A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.
Battlefield
In WWI, Dr. Stefano Zorzi works at a clinic, treating soldiers' wounds and cases of self-injury to avoid combat.Dr. Giulio, who helps soldiers, becomes a silent competition that also involves nurse Anna. The Spanish flu strikes th...
