Carmelo Bene

Carmelo Bene
A drawing of Carmelo Bene
Born	(1937-09-01)1 September 1937 Campi Salentina, Italy
Died	16 March 2002(2002-03-16) (aged 64) 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.^[1]

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.
• Giuseooe Leone, "D'in su la vetta della torre antica. Giacomo Leopardi e Carmelo Bene sospesi fra silenzio e voce", II Edizione, Grafiche Rusconi, Bellano-Lecco, 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carmelo Bene.

• Carmelo Bene at the Internet Movie Database