Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)

Christ Stopped at Eboli
French poster for the film
Directed byFrancesco Rosi
Written byFrancesco Rosi
Tonino Guerra
Raffaele La Capria
Produced byNicola Carraro
Franco Cristaldi
StarringGian Maria Volonté
Paolo Bonacelli
Alain Cuny
Lea Massari
Irene Papas
François Simon
CinematographyPasqualino De Santis
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Music byPiero Piccioni
Production
companies
Rai 2
Vides Cinematografica
Action Films
Distributed byTitanus
Release date
  • 23 February 1979 (1979-02-23)
Running time
150 minutes (1979 theatrical release)
220 minutes (uncut TV version)
CountriesItaly
France
LanguageItalian
Box office$82,126[1][2]

Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italian: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli), also known as Eboli in the United States,[3] is a 1979 drama film directed by Francesco Rosi, adapted from the book of the same name by Carlo Levi. It stars Gian Maria Volonté as Levi, a political dissident under Fascism who was exiled in the Basilicata region in Southern Italy.

The film was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival[4] and was the first to receive a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1983.[5]

It was included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.[6]

  1. ^ "Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  2. ^ "Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)". The Numbers. IMDb. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  3. ^ John Anderson (April 26, 2019). "A short history of 'Christ Stopped at Eboli': A 'holy grail' of classic Italian cinema". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Christ Stopped at Eboli". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
  5. ^ "Film Foreign Language Film in 1983". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  6. ^ "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". filmsquish.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2017-04-14.