Marco Bellocchio

About

Marco Bellocchio (Italian: [ˈmarko belˈlɔkkjo]; born 9 November 1939; Bobbio) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher. He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, making his first film, Fists in the Pocket, (I pugni in tasca, winner of the Silver Sail at the 1965 Festival del film Locarno), funded by family members and shot on family property, in 1965. Bellocchio's films include China Is Near (1967), Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Slap the Monster on Page One) (1972), Nel Nome del Padre (In the name of the Father – a satire on a Catholic boarding school that shares affinities with Lindsay Anderson's If....) (1972), Victory March (1976), A Leap in the Dark (1980), Henry IV (1984), Devil in the Flesh...

Known for

Rosebush PruningMovie • 2026PortobelloSeries • 2026The TraitorMovie • 2019Exterior NightSeries • 2022Dormant BeautyMovie • 2012KidnappedMovie • 2023Devil in the FleshMovie • 1986Sweet DreamsMovie • 2016Slap the Monster on Page OneMovie • 1972VincereMovie • 2009Fists in the PocketMovie • 1965Good Morning, NightMovie • 2003Marx Can WaitMovie • 2021Blood of My BloodMovie • 2015Esterno Notte - Prima ParteMovie • 2022Esterno Notte - Seconda ParteMovie • 2022My Mother's SmileMovie • 2002BattlefieldMovie • 2024A Leap in the DarkMovie • 1980The Wedding DirectorMovie • 2006It Was the SonMovie • 2012The Eyes, the MouthMovie • 1982Love and AngerMovie • 1969The Prince of HomburgMovie • 1997