MARCO BELLOCCHIO
Directing
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.
- Kidnapped2023
- Esterno Notte (part I)2022
- Exterior Night2022
- Marx Can Wait2021
- If I Can Afford It2021
- The Traitor2019
- The Fight2018
- All for a Rose2017
- Sweet Dreams2016
- Clowns2016
- Blood of My Blood2015
- Dormant Beauty2012
- Sorelle Mai2011
- Vincere2009
- Sorelle2007
- The Wedding Director2006
- Good Morning, Night2003
- My Mother's Smile2002
- Farewell to the Past2002
- The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops2002
- The Nanny1999
- Alfabeto italiano1998
- The Prince of Homburg1997
- Broken Dreams: Reasoning and Delirium1995
- Rome, November 12, 19941995
- The Butterfly's Dream1994
- The Conviction1991
- The Witches' Sabbath1988
- Devil in the Flesh1986
- Henry IV1984
- The Eyes, the Mouth1982
- Leap Into the Void1980
- Vacation in Val Trebbia1980
- The Seagull1977
- Victory March1976
- Fit to Be Untied1975
- Slap the Monster on Page One1972
- In the Name of the Father1971
- Love and Anger1969
- China Is Near1967
- Fists in the Pocket1965
- Ginepro Became a Man1962
- Down with Uncle1962
- Culpability and Punishment1961