Marco Bellocchio

Marco Bellocchio

Marco Bellocchio (Italian: [ˈmarko belˈlɔkkjo]; born 9 November 1939) 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.

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Movies Made by Marco Bellocchio (67)

Rosebush Pruning (2026)

Original Film Writer

Nina (2000)

Director

Elena (1997)

Director

Movies starring Marco Bellocchio (40)

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Same first name: Marco

Same surname: Bellocchio