Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) - Francesco Rosi
Related: 1979 (release date) - 1935 (set in) - fascism - peasant - Jesus - Italian cinema
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) - Francesco Rosi [Amazon.com]
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli) is a book by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to a remote town in southern Italy called Gagliano, in the region of Lucania.
It was made into a movie, directed by Francesco Rosi, in 1979. The movie starred Gian Maria Volontè as Carlo Levi, with Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Léa Massari, and Irene Papas.
It received the British Academy Award for Foreign Language Film in 1982. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristo_si_%C3%A8_fermato_a_Eboli [Aug 2005]
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