Carmelo Bene

BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale (2022)

Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi (2003)

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

Otello o la deficienza della donna (2002)

Produced by RAI and filmed in the Turin studios in 1979 but edited years later, in 2001-2002, this is the staging for TV of Carmelo Bene's play of the same name. One of his last works, it premiered in 2002, on March 18, immediately after his death, at the ...

Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza (1999)

Screenplay by C. B. ...

Voce dei Canti (1998)

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 by Giacomo Leopardi (La Ginestra, Il Canto Notturno, Le Ricordanze, A Silvia, L'Infinito ...), but also som ...

Macbeth Horror Suite (1997)

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 spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. ...

In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio) (1997)

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 invulnerability of the greek hero Achilles. Bene performs alone in a stage filled with mannequins, acting ...

Canti Orfici (1996)

Actor, poet and playwright Carmelo Bene offers a reading of excerpts from the collection of literary compositions called Canti Orfici by poet Dino Campana. ...

Ai Rotoli (1996)

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

Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue) (1990)

A TV movie variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The movie is a part of Carmelo Bene's multi-medial project on Hamlet, also including the theatrical movie "Un Amleto di meno", a stage drama and the experimental video "Amleto di Carmelo Bene (Da Shakespeare a ...

L'Adelchi di Alessandro Manzoni in forma di concerto (1985)

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 of Alessandro Manzoni's birth. Broadcast only once on Rai 2 on September 9, 1985. ...

Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio (1983)

Drama by Lord George Byron, music by Robert Schumann. Filmed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 1979. ...

La poesia dimenticata (1982)

Carmelo Bene reads poems by Dino Campana ...

Riccardo III (1981)

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 Deleuze, who wrote a book about it before even seeing it. Bene strips down the original Shakespeare play to th ...

Modi di vivere - Giorgio Colli. Una conoscenza per cambiare la vita (1980)

Realized in 1980 for Rai 2, it recalls the main phases in the life of Giorgio Colli. ...

Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue) (1978)

An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. ...

Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak (1977)

Performance shot in 1977, in which emblematic actor Carmelo Bene, in the charming reconstruction of the ruins of a theater on fire accompanied by the disturbing notes of Vittorio Gelmetti, reads four poems of the Twentieth Century russian poets Vladimir Ma ...

Claro (1975)

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 throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offe ...

One Hamlet Less (1973)

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia sucking his finger. Annoyed by his friend Horatio, who tells him of the apparition of his father's spectre t ...

Ventriloquio (1973)

Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, re ...

Salomé (1972)

Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails to seduce the prophet John The Baptist, she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. ...

Tre nel mille (1971)

A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is marked ...

Necropolis (1970)

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona o ...

Don Giovanni (1970)

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 for Christian icons. Loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan". ...

Red Hot Shot (1970)

Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers. When Brown is murdered, Frank is called to investigate... ...

Capricci (1969)

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 continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned ...

Umano Non Umano (1969)

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances. ...

Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in the unconscious desire to eviscerate him ...

Hermitage (1968)

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely based on ...

Catch As Catch Can (1967)

Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him! ...

Oedipus Rex (1967)

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Que ...

Carmelo Bene, il canto d'amore di Alfred J. Prufrock (1967)

Carmelo Bene read a text by T. S. ...

Bis (1966)

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis' lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play's rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented als ...

Un'ora prima di Amleto, più Pinocchio (1965)

Backstage short documentary on Carmelo Bene's theatre works Amleto and Pinocchio. ...

Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi (2003)

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

Otello o la deficienza della donna (2002)

Produced by RAI and filmed in the Turin studios in 1979 but edited years later, in 2001-2002, this is the staging for TV of Carmelo Bene's play of the same name. One of his last works, it premiered in 2002, on March 18, immediately after his death, at the ...

Quattro momenti su tutto il nulla (2001)

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 are not the learners to argue in voice what whips in our mind, just as you are not, you can say nothing. ...

Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza (1999)

Screenplay by C. B. ...

Voce dei Canti (1998)

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 by Giacomo Leopardi (La Ginestra, Il Canto Notturno, Le Ricordanze, A Silvia, L'Infinito ...), but also som ...

Macbeth Horror Suite (1997)

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 spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. ...

In-vulnerabilità d'Achille (tra Sciro e Ilio) (1997)

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 invulnerability of the greek hero Achilles. Bene performs alone in a stage filled with mannequins, acting ...

Canti Orfici (1996)

Actor, poet and playwright Carmelo Bene offers a reading of excerpts from the collection of literary compositions called Canti Orfici by poet Dino Campana. ...

Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue) (1990)

A TV movie variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The movie is a part of Carmelo Bene's multi-medial project on Hamlet, also including the theatrical movie "Un Amleto di meno", a stage drama and the experimental video "Amleto di Carmelo Bene (Da Shakespeare a ...

L'Adelchi di Alessandro Manzoni in forma di concerto (1985)

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 of Alessandro Manzoni's birth. Broadcast only once on Rai 2 on September 9, 1985. ...

Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio (1983)

Drama by Lord George Byron, music by Robert Schumann. Filmed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 1979. ...

La poesia dimenticata (1982)

Carmelo Bene reads poems by Dino Campana ...

Riccardo III (1981)

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 Deleuze, who wrote a book about it before even seeing it. Bene strips down the original Shakespeare play to th ...

Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue) (1978)

An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. ...

Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak (1977)

Performance shot in 1977, in which emblematic actor Carmelo Bene, in the charming reconstruction of the ruins of a theater on fire accompanied by the disturbing notes of Vittorio Gelmetti, reads four poems of the Twentieth Century russian poets Vladimir Ma ...

One Hamlet Less (1973)

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia sucking his finger. Annoyed by his friend Horatio, who tells him of the apparition of his father's spectre t ...

Ventriloquio (1973)

Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, re ...

Salomé (1972)

Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails to seduce the prophet John The Baptist, she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. ...

Don Giovanni (1970)

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 for Christian icons. Loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan". ...

Capricci (1969)

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 continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned ...

Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in the unconscious desire to eviscerate him ...

Hermitage (1968)

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely based on ...