Marco Bellocchio

Biography

He was born in 1939 in Piacenza, Italy. In his youth he was a member of the Maoist group “Servire il popolo” and studied Philosophy before making a career in cinema. His first feature film was Fist in His Pocket (1965); he would later direct Devil in the Flesh (1986), The Religion Hour (Bafici ’03), Good Morning, Night (Bafici ’04) and The Wedding Director (Bafici ’07), among many others.