Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)
- Gian Maria Volonte: Carlo Levi
- Lea Massari: Luisa Levi
- Alain Cuny Barone Rotundo
- Irene Papas: Giulia
- Paolo Bonacelli: Mayor
- François Simon, pastor
- Francesco Callari: Doctor Gibilisco
- Antonio Allocca: Don Cosimino
- Giuseppe Persia: taxman
- Tommaso Polgar: " Sanaporcelle "
- Vincenzo Vitale: Doctor Milillo
- Luigi Infantino: Autist
- Niccolò Accursio Di Leo: Carpenters
- Frank Raviele: Brigadiers
- Maria Antonia Capotorto: Caterina
- Lidia Bavusi: widow
Christ Stopped at Eboli is an Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi from 1979, according to the same report, published in 1945 by Carlo Levi. It is about a Turin physician who is banished as opponent of the fascist state in 1935 in a remote southern Italian nest. He learns gradually to him strange, archaic and miserable life of the village. Rosi was wearing it after his Who Shot Salvatore G.? of 1961 with the idea to make a film Levis text, but the project turned back in favor of current topics.
Criticism
According to the Fischer film Almanac 1981 will the literary work " carefully and visually haunting " implemented as faithfully as possible, without having to follow the text literally, but in terms of structure. Thanks to the lead actor and the camera work ", this film has become a differentiated cultural document and at the same time a cinematically outstanding in color and light, shadow and atmosphere, assembly and rhythm event. " Zoom noted a change in style Rosi, realistic political thrillers towards a " ethnographic and anthropological analysis" of the southern Italian culture. The film possess " heat and an almost classic-looking design ." The "extraordinarily gentle and poetic narrative " is consistent with the original, the story was "not designed as a naturalistic, polemical report on the continuing pauperism of the South, but as a compassionate encounter between two cultures. " The barren landscape would cameraman De Santis and Rosi in " great " images captured.
The lexicon of the International film praised the main character, the aesthetics of the landscape and the " be differentiated understanding " of the nature of southern Italy. In evangelical film observers, the film was interpreted as Christusallegorie. The main character, the exiled doctor, the confidence of the local population gains just by his passivity and his silence; he let a civilizing missionary as well as a false - einschmeichlerische adaptation. They accepted him, " because the doctor just wants nothing ' because he modest, unobtrusive, without metropolitan arrogance, by pure intuition brings people to perceive him as well, as a man who is different though, but also just as a. humans as "Only thanks to this confidence would succeed him to humanize the people - so I'm a Christ figure still in this village. Therefore, if it were one of the most religious films of recent years.