- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- September 3, 1937
- Place of Birth
- Campi Salentina, Lecce, Italia
- Died
- March 16, 2002
Carmelo Bene
The filmmaking career of Carmelo Bene (1937 - 2002) lasted from 1968 to 1973, six years out of a lengthy time spent in the theater that made Bene one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century. Bene first made a name for himself with a controversial production of Camus’ Caligula in Rome in 1959. Subsequent productions retained this sense of notoriety, and Bene (like Pasolini) quickly acquired a police record. Bene, however, would come to bemoan the controversy his work created, because it attracted an audience looking for shocks and titillation, while he himself was more concerned with reinventing the vocabulary of the theater: sets, gestures, texts. Bene’s turn to cinema expanded that quest to reinvent. His films resist synopsis because, although they are often derived from narrative sources, Bene uses these sources against themsel…
Filmography
movieLa parte maledetta. Viaggio ai confini del teatro - Carmelo Bene
2024 · Himself (archive footage)
movieÈ severamente vietata la sosta in palcoscenico ai non autorizzati. Un documentario di meno su Carmelo Bene
2024 · Himself (archive footage)
movieRushes di Otello
2023 · , Director
movieBENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale
2022
movieTracce di Bene
2017 · Self
movieLorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi
2003 · , Director
movieNecro not(to b)e
2003 · Sé stesso
movieOtello o la deficienza della donna
2002 · , Director
movieQuattro momenti su tutto il nulla
2001 · Director
moviePinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza
1999 · Pinocchio / Geppetto / Mastro Ciliegia / Grillo Parlante / Mangiafuoco / Volpe / Lucignolo, Director, Producer, Art Direction, Makeup Designer, Costume Design, Writer
movieVoce dei Canti
1998 · , Director
movieMacbeth Horror Suite
1997 · , Director, Writer
movieIn-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio)
1997 · , Director, Adaptation, Art Direction, Costume Design
movieCanti Orfici
1996 · Himself, Director
movieAi Rotoli
1996 · Self
movieCarmelo Bene: Uno contro tutti
1994
movieCos'è il teatro?!
1990 · Himself, Director
movieHommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
1990 · Amleto, Director, Writer, Producer
movieL'Adelchi di Alessandro Manzoni in forma di concerto
1985 · , Director
Le tecniche dell'assenza
1984 · Self
movieManfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio
1983 · , Director, Writer
movieLa poesia dimenticata
1982 · , Director
movieRiccardo III
1981 · Riccardo III, Director, Adaptation
movieModi di vivere - Giorgio Colli. Una conoscenza per cambiare la vita
1980
movieAmleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
1978 · Amleto, Screenplay, Director, Producer, Art Direction, Costume Design
movieBene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
1977 · , Director, Adaptation
movieClaro
1975
movieOne Hamlet Less
1973 · Hamlet, Director, Writer, Art Direction, Costume Design, Music Coordinator
movieVentriloquio
1973 · Jean des Esseintes, Director, Adaptation
movieSalomé
1972 · Erode Antipa / Onorio, Director, Writer, Producer
movieTre nel mille
1971 · Pannocchia
movieNecropolis
1970 · Man with leather jacket
movieDon Giovanni
1970 · Don Giovanni, Director, Producer, Writer, Music Coordinator, Screenplay
movieRed Hot Shot
1970 · Billy Desco
movieCapricci
1969 · Poet, Director, Writer, Producer
movieUmano Non Umano
1969 · Self
movieOur Lady of the Turks
1968 · The Protagonist, Director, Novel, Writer, Producer, Production Design, Costume Design
movieIl barocco leccese
1968 · Voice over, Director
movieHermitage
1968 · The Man, Director, Writer, Novel
movieCatch As Catch Can
1967 · Prete
movieOedipus Rex
1967 · Creon
movieIl canto d'amore di Alfred J. Prufrock
1967
movieBis
1966
movieUn'ora prima di Amleto, più Pinocchio
1965 · Himself