Carmelo Bene
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| Carmelo Bene | |
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A drawing of Carmelo Bene
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| Born | 1 September 1937 Campi Salentina, Italy |
| Died | 16 March 2002 (aged 64) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor, theater director, writer, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1967-2002 |
| Religion | None[1] |
Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002) was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema.[2]
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Literature[edit]
In 1979 he wrote, in collaboration with French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the essay "Superpositions". In 1984 his play Adelchi was published.
Selected filmography[edit]
- Oedipus Rex, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1967)
- Nostra Signora dei Turchi - Our Lady of the Turks, Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize (1968), director
- Capricci (1969), director
- Don Giovanni (1971), director
- Salomè (1972), director
- One Hamlet Less (1973), director
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Stefano Di Lauro, La mosca nel bicchiere. La poetica di Carmelo Bene, I Libri di Icaro, Lecce, 2007, p. 66.
- ^ (Italian) Carmelo Bene on the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani
- Umberto Artioli - Carmelo Bene, Un dio assente. Monologo a due voci, Antonio Attisani and Marco Dotti eds., Medusa, Milan, 2006. ISBN 88-7698-051-2
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