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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1979)
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Release Date:
23 February 1979 (Italy) morePlot:
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli... more | add synopsisAwards:
Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins moreUser Comments:
Reasonably faithful to the book moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gian Maria Volontè | ... | Carlo Levi |
| Paolo Bonacelli | ... | Don Luigi Magalone |
| Alain Cuny | ... | Barone Nicola Rotunno |
| Lea Massari | ... | Luisa Levi |
| Irene Papas | ... | Giulia Venere |
| François Simon | ... | Don Traiella |
| Luigi Infantino | ||
| Francesco Callari | ||
| Antonio Allocca | ... | Don Cosimino |
| Enzo Vitale | ... | Dottore Milillo (as Vincenzo Vitale) |
| Maria Antonia Capotorto | ||
| Pietro Peragine | ||
| Vito Caraccia | ||
| Antonio Di Leva | ||
| Accursio Di Leo | ... | Il falegname |
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France:151 min | Italy:150 min | Italy:224 min (25 fps) (TV version) | UK:155 min | UK:213 min (25 fps) (video version) | USA:120 min (cut version)Language:
ItalianColor:
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Matera, Basilicata, ItalyMOVIEmeter: 
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I have seen this TV film several times after reading Carlo Levi's book and having been to the Basilicata area in which Levi was exiled.
I consider the film to represent the book's aims which is to show the oppressed state of the peasants in Basilicata, the remoteness and lack of care of central government in Rome and the way in which the fascists could control the local area with very limited support - but of the people who mattered, the mayor, doctor, police. The rest of the populace could be, and were ignored.
A brief nitpicking comment on the title. It comes from something the priest said - on the lines that Christ never reached Aliano but stopped at Eboli some 150 miles distant. Eboli plays no part in Levi's book and the start of the film is wrong in showing him changing trains there, and picking up the stray dog. To get to Matera, where he started his exile he changed in Bari and would not have gone anywhere near Eboli.