Carmelo Bene

Carmelo Bene
A drawing of Carmelo Bene
Born	(1937-09-01)1 September 1937 Campi Salentina, Italy
Died	Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actor, theater director, writer, film director, screenwriter
Years active	1967–2002
Spouse(s)	Giuliana Rossi (1960–1965) Raffaella Baracchi (1992–2002; his death)
Children	Salomè Bene (b. 1993)

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.

Works

Literature

In 1979 he wrote, in collaboration with French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the essay "Superpositions". In 1984 his play Adelchi was published. In 1970 he wrote the screenplay A Boccaperta.

Selected filmography

• 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

• Experimental theatre

References

• 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
• Giuseppe Leone, "D'in su la vetta della torre antica. Giacomo Leopardi e Carmelo Bene sospesi fra silenzio e voce", Edizioni Il Melabò, Lecco, 2015.

External links

• Carmelo Bene at the Internet Movie Database