Marco Bellocchio (Italian: [ˈmarko belˈlÉ"kkjo]; born 9 November
1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.Born in
Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic
upbringing â€" 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.Bellocchio's films include China is Near (1967), Sbatti il mostro
in prima pagina (Slap the Monster on Page One) (1972), Nel Nome del
Padre (In the name of the Father â€" a satire on a Catholic boarding
school that shares affinities with Lindsay Anderson's If....) (1972),
Victory March (1976), A Leap in the Dark (1980), Henry IV (1984),
Devil in the Flesh (1986), and My Mother's Smile (2002), which told
the story of a wealthy Italian artist, a 'default-Marxist and
atheist', who suddenly discovers that the Vatican is proposing to make
his detested mother a saint. Marco Bellocchio Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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