Cristo si è fermato a Eboli by Carlo Levi

The early portions of the film follow Levi as he makes the long trip to Gagliano, which is past Eboli, the last train stop. Their ways, many of which descended from medieval superstitions, were certainly not his ways, but unlike Mussolini’s Fascism, their culture was genuine and honest, something that Levi could appreciate. A trained medical doctor who was born in Turin to a wealthy Jewish physician, Levi was exiled for his anti-Fascist political activity in 1935, but the punishment turned out to be a blessing of sorts as he grew to appreciate and admire the peasants with whom he (along with a half-dozen other political dissidents) was forced to live. Milillo), Antonio Allocca (Don Cosimino)īased on the 1945 memoir of the same title by painter, political activist, and physician Carlo Levi, Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli ( Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) chronicles the year that Levi spent in political exile in Gagliano, a small, ancient, crumbling town in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, one of the poorest in the country.

Stars: Gian Maria Volvonté (Carlo Levi), Paolo Bonacelli (Don Luigi Magalone), Alain Cuny (Baron Nicola Rotunno), Lea Massari (Luisa Levi), Irene Papas (Giulia Venere), François Simon (Don Trajella), Luigi Infantino (Chauffeur), Accursio Di (Carpenter), Francesco Callari (Dr. He died in 1975.Screenplay: Francesco Rosi & Tonino Guerra & Raffaele La Capria (story by Francesco Rosi and Tonino Guerra based on the novel by Carlo Levi) He served for some time in the Italian Senate as an independent on the communist ticket.

He also continued to write but never had the same success as Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli). After the war, he continued working as a journalist and also continued to paint.

He was again arrested but was released after Mussolini’s arrest and spent the next two years writing Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli), which was published in 1945. After his release, he moved to France, returning to Italy only in 1941. After his second arrest he was exiled to a small village called Aliano, about which he later wrote in his best known book, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli). However, he became involved with an anti-fascist group called Giustizia e Libertà and was arrested.

He had a moderately successful career as a painter and was very much involved in artistic circles. However, he did not practise medicine but became involved in politics and painting. He studied medicine at the University of Turin. His father was a doctor and his mother the daughter of Claudio Treves.

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli by Carlo Levi