Carmelo Bene Movies

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid Gothic novel from 1796....

An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke...

Recording by Rai Milan of Adelchi staged by Carmelo Bene at the Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1984, with the Rai orchestra and choir for the bicentenary...

Videotape produced by Ferruccio Marotti for Roma's University theatre students. A presentation of Carmelo Bene's "Performative matrix": not a...

Riccardo III is a theatre play staged in 1977 and also edited for television and aired in 1981, which Carmelo Bene dedicated to his friend Gilles...

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito...

Rome, December 12th - 15th 1990.

In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings...

Video registration of Carmelo Bene's play 'Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi', performed in Florence in 1986.

When we believe it is we who say we are said. In the speech, the strong-willed arrogance of all my intentions is hopelessly frustrated and since we...

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems...

An experimental documentary short about Saint Cross's basilica of Lecce, Apulia. In 1968, Carmelo Bene made a deal with Nexus Film to shoot three...

Approximately 15 hours of footage (contained on 28 tapes) for a television adaptation of Carmelo Bene's play "Otello o la deficienza della donna,"...

In this a baroque and claustrophobic take on Mozart’s opera of the same name, Don Giovanni tries to seduce a girl who is manically searching...

A visit to the Rotoli cemetery in Palermo, while film director Carmelo Bene reads a fragment of Antonio Pizzuto's book "Signorina Rosina".

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

One of the last TV performances by Carmelo Bene, from Publio Papinio Stazio and Henrich Von Kleist, mixing the myth of the amazon Pentesilea with the...