Christ Stopped at Eboli
A Feature film of
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Production year1980
French release07/05/1980
Runtime2 h 25 min
Synopsis
The story follows a real life anti-fascist intellectual, Carlo Levi, into his forced exile in small, isolated village in a remote region of Southern Italy. The village is populated by inhabitants who barely survive on the meager harvest of the unyielding land. Eboli, the closest train station, is the last outpost of civilization (such as it is) before entering a world that has changed very little since the Middle Ages. The movie title, after the book written by Carlo Levi, expresses all the sense of abandon, neglect, desolation and human despair. According to the local tales, even Christ, in his southward journey, went no further than Eboli. Beyond that point, not even God dared (or could be bothered) to go...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Action Films, Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana
- Co-production : Action Films
- Foreign production company : Vides Cinematografica
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriters : Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Raffaele La Capria
- Director of Photography : Pasqualino De Santis
- Music Composer : Piero Piccioni
- Editor : Ruggero Mastroianni
- Foreign producers : Franco Cristaldi, Nicola Carraro
- Author of original work : Carlo Levi
- Co-producer : Yves Gasser
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Literary adaptation
- Production language : Italian
- Coproducer countries : Italy (60.0%), France (40.0%)
- Original French-language productions : No
