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A doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.A doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.A doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 7 wins & 1 nomination total
Enzo Vitale
- Dottore Milillo
- (as Vincenzo Vitale)
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- TriviaThe title of the film and its source novel comes from an expression by the people of Gagliano who say of themselves, "Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli" which means, in effect, that they feel they have been bypassed by Christianity, by morality, by history itself-that they have somehow been excluded from the full human experience.
- GoofsOn the bus, the way Carlo holds the dog changes.
- Quotes
Luisa Levi: You'd need a woman here.
Carlo Levi: Yes, I would. But it's not easy.
Luisa Levi: Come on, don't exaggerate. Don't tell me that here even finding a cleaning lady is impossible.
Carlo Levi: Here a woman wouldn't go in the house of a single man. Just spending time together implies sleeping together.
Luisa Levi: You can't be serious.
Carlo Levi: Oh, yes I am.
- Alternate versionsThere are many versions ranging from 120 minutes to 222 minutes. The longest version available in the U.S. is 222 minutes and is available from the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Il cineasta e il labirinto (2004)
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This dutiful, detailed three-and-a-half TV epic describes the exile of dissident intellectual Carlo Levi in a remote village of fascist Italy, blighted by poverty, disease, immirgration and governmental contempt. The film is part-character study, part-socio-historico-political analysis, part careful representation of a people and its place. It is seriously flawed (the people are sentimentalised, the politics are simplistic, the pleasant presentation (music, major actors, cinematography etc.) works against the horrifiic subject matter); but there are nice ironies too, such as the Christlike Levi capable of the fascism he deplores.
The film can be seen in two contexts, as a neo-realist riposte to the prominent anti-realist 70s films about Fascism ('The Spider's Strategem', 'The Conformist', 'Amarcord'), and as a prestigious historical epic on a national theme frequent in the 70s and 80s ('The Travelling Players', 'Heimat'). In both cases it falls short.
The film can be seen in two contexts, as a neo-realist riposte to the prominent anti-realist 70s films about Fascism ('The Spider's Strategem', 'The Conformist', 'Amarcord'), and as a prestigious historical epic on a national theme frequent in the 70s and 80s ('The Travelling Players', 'Heimat'). In both cases it falls short.
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- Also known as
- Christus kam nur bis Eboli
- Filming locations
- Aliano, Matera, Basilicata, Italy(second house where Levi lives)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $78,736
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,006
- Apr 7, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $78,736
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