Carmelo Bene

Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002), was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema. In 1968, his movie Our Lady of the Turks won the Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival) at the Venice Film Festival. He died of a heart ailment in 2002. Works Literature In 1979 he wrote, in collaboration with French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the essay "Superpositions". In 1984 his play Adelchi was published. In 1970 he wrote the screenplay A Boccaperta. I Appeared to the Madonna, translated with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico (Contra Mundum Press: 2020) Partial filmography Oedipus Rex (1967, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini) - Creonte Nostra Signora dei Turchi - Our Lady of the Turks (1968, director, Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize) - The Man / Narrator Catch as Catch Can (1968) - Priest Capricci (1969, director) - Poet The Syndicate: A Death in the Family (1970) - Billy Desco Don Giovanni (1970, director) - Don Giovanni Necropolis (1970) Tre nel mille (1971) Salomè (1972, director) - Erode Antipa / Onorio One Hamlet Less (1973, director) - Hamlet Claro (1975)