Christ stopped at Eboli = Cristo si è fermato a Eboli

Author

Francesco Rosi

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Two-DVD special edition.

Languages

In Italian, with English subtitles.

Performers

Gian Maria Volonte, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas, Francois Simon.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (220 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet folded sheet (color illustration ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi discovers an Italy he never knew existed, a place where ancient folkways and superstitions still hold sway and that gradually transforms his understanding of both himself and his country. Presented for the first time on home video in its original full-length, four-part cut, Christ Stopped at Eboli ruminates profoundly on the political and philosophical rifts within Italian society--between north and south, tradition and modernity, fascism and freedom--and the essential humanity that transcends all.

Notes

Based on the novel by Carlo Levi.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; new interview with translator and author Michael F. Moore ; documentary from 1978 on Italian political cinema, featuring director Francesco Rosi and actor Gian Maria Volonte ; excerpt from a 1974 documentary featuring Rosi and author Carlo Levi ; excerpt from Marco Spanoli's 2014 documentary Unico, in which Rosi discusses working with Volonte ; Rialto Pictures rerelease trailer ; new English subtitle translation by Moore.