Lydia Mancinelli

Our Lady of the Turks

To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory r...

Rimini Rimini

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimin...

Salomé

Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails t...

Night Ripper

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murde...

Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)

An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

One Hamlet Less

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at a...

Hermitage

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace come...

Riccardo III

Riccardo III is a theatre play staged in 1977 and also edited for television and aired in 1981, which Carmelo B...

S.P.Q.R.

In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capita...

Bis

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

Ventriloquio

Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative conce...

Don Giovanni

In this a baroque and claustrophobic take on Mozart’s opera of the same name, Don Giovanni tries to seduce a gi...

BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale

Manfred, versione per concerto in forma di oratorio

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