Starring: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas, rançois Simon, Luigi Infantino, Accursio Di Leo, Francesco Callari, Enzo Vitale, Antonio Allocca, Vincenzo Licata. Cristo si è fermato a Eboli / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date Septem/ 39.95 It’s also uncut, as opposed to the theatrical version that made a splash here in 1980, as simply Eboli.ġ979 / Color / 1:33 flat / 220 150, 120 min.
It’s meditative, it’s illuminating, it’s like a book one can’t put down. He expects nothing but receives revelations about his country, his life and one’s place in society.
In Mussolini’s most popular years of make-Italy-great-again Fascism, a dissident is given an indefinite ‘time out,’ an exile to a small town in a corner of the country so remote and primitive that not even Christianity could fully change it. It’s a perfect movie for a dark time: Carlo Levi’s famed novel about a political undesirable became a major Italian miniseries by the great Francesco Rosi, starring the now-legendary Gian Maria Volontè.
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