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'''''Francesco di Assisi'''''{{efn|Film title according to the film's opening credits<ref name="film">{{cite AV media |people=Cavani, Liliana (director) |date=1966 |title=Francesco di Assisi |trans-title=Francis of Assisi |type=film |language=it}}</ref> and the restored RAI DVD release.<ref name="RAIDVD">{{cite web|url=https://homevideo.rai.it/catalogo/francesco-di-assisi/ |title=Francesco di Assisi |website=RAI Home Video |language=it |access-date=1 March 2024}}</ref>}} (sometimes credited as '''''Francesco d'Assisi'''''), English title '''''Francis of Assisi''''', is a 1966 Italian [[Drama (film and television)|drama television film]] by [[Liliana Cavani]].<ref name="RAITeche">{{cite web|url=https://www.teche.rai.it/2023/01/francesco-di-assisi-di-liliana-cavani/ |title=Francesco di Assisi |website=[[Rai Teche|RAI Teche]] |language=it |access-date=1 March 2024}}</ref><ref name="Cinematografo">{{cite web|url=https://www.cinematografo.it/film/francesco-dassisi-m6xfml6g |title=Francesco d'Assisi |website=Cinematografo |language=it |access-date=1 March 2024}}</ref> It was Cavani's first non-fiction [[Feature film|feature-length]] film, with a screenplay written by her and [[Tullio Pinelli]]. It follows the life of Saint [[Francis of Assisi]] from 1205 until his death in 1226.
'''''Francesco di Assisi'''''{{efn|Film title according to the film's opening credits<ref name="film">{{cite AV media |people=Cavani, Liliana (director) |date=1966 |title=Francesco di Assisi |trans-title=Francis of Assisi |type=film |language=it}}</ref> and the restored RAI DVD release.<ref name="RAIDVD">{{cite web|url=https://homevideo.rai.it/catalogo/francesco-di-assisi/ |title=Francesco di Assisi |website=RAI Home Video |language=it |access-date=1 March 2024}}</ref>}} (sometimes credited as '''''Francesco d'Assisi'''''), English title '''''Francis of Assisi''''', is a 1966 Italian [[Drama (film and television)|drama television film]] by [[Liliana Cavani]].<ref name="Marrone" /><ref name="RAITeche" /><ref name="Cinematografo">{{cite web|url=https://www.cinematografo.it/film/francesco-dassisi-m6xfml6g |title=Francesco d'Assisi |website=Cinematografo |language=it |access-date=1 March 2024}}</ref> It was Cavani's first non-fiction [[Feature film|feature-length]] film, with a screenplay written by her and [[Tullio Pinelli]]. It follows the life of Saint [[Francis of Assisi]] from 1205 until his death in 1226.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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==Production and release==
==Production and release==
''Francesco di Assisi'' was shot on [[16 mm film]] and aired in two parts on [[RAI]] television on 6 and 8 May 1966, reaching an audience of approx. 20 million viewers.<ref name="RAITeche" /><ref name="Cinematografo" /> It later saw a limited cinema release in 1972.<ref name="RAITeche" /><ref name="Cinematografo" />
''Francesco di Assisi'' was shot on [[16 mm film]] and aired in two parts on [[RAI]] television on 6 and 8 May 1966, reaching an audience of approx. 20 million viewers.<ref name="Marrone" /><ref name="RAITeche" /><ref name="Cinematografo" /> It was shown out of competition at the [[27th Venice International Film Festival]] the same year<ref name="Marrone" /> and eventually saw a limited cinema release in 1972.<ref name="RAITeche" /><ref name="Cinematografo" />

==Reception==
Although successful,<ref name="Marrone" /> Cavani's film, compared with the works of directors [[Roberto Rossellini]] and [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]],<ref name="Domenico">{{cite book|title=The Devil and the Dolce Vita. Catholic Attempts to Save Italy's Soul, 1948-1974 |last=Domenico |first=Roy |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |year=2021 |page=302 |isbn=9780813234335}}</ref> was also received controversially and divided viewers, critics and Catholic groups in particular.<ref name="Marrone" /> Labelled by a member of the [[Italian Social Movement|Movimento Sociale Italiano]] as "heretical, blasphemous and offensive for the faith of the Italian people", it was praised by [[Italo Moscati]] for breaking the boundaries of "television conformism".<ref name="Marrone" /> In a round table discussion, Pasolini, who had liked Rossellini's interpretation of Francis of Assisi (see ''[[The Flowers of St. Francis]]''), dismissed Cavani's film, criticising Castel's "bourgeois" portrayal of the titular character<ref name="Domenico" /> and Cavani's omission of the "oriental" aspect of his life and the performed miracles, and her turning him into a man of action.<ref>{{cite book|title=Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema |first=Luca |last=Barattoni |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2013 |page=169 |isbn=9780748685929}}</ref>


==Legacy==
==Legacy==

Revision as of 10:06, 2 March 2024

Francesco di Assisi
Directed byLiliana Cavani
Screenplay by
Produced byLeo Pescarolo
StarringLou Castel
CinematographyGiuseppe Ruzzolini
Edited byLuciano Gigante
Music byPeppino De Luca
Production
companies
  • Clodio Cineamatografica
  • RAI
Distributed byRAI
Release date
  • 6 May 1966 (1966-05-06) (Italy)[1][2]
Running time
  • 134 minutes (film)
  • 128 minutes (DVD)
CountryItaly
Languages
  • Italian
  • Latin

Francesco di Assisi[a] (sometimes credited as Francesco d'Assisi), English title Francis of Assisi, is a 1966 Italian drama television film by Liliana Cavani.[1][2][5] It was Cavani's first non-fiction feature-length film, with a screenplay written by her and Tullio Pinelli. It follows the life of Saint Francis of Assisi from 1205 until his death in 1226.

Cast

  • Lou Castel as Francesco
  • Riccardo Cucciolla as Leone
  • Giancarlo Sbragia as Francesco's father
  • Marco Bellocchio as Pietro
  • Ludmilla Lvova as Chiara
  • Maria Grazia Marescalchi as Pica
  • Marco Bellocchio as Pietro di Stacia
  • Kenneth Belton as Innocent III
  • John Karsen
  • Riccardo Bernardini
  • Giuseppe Campodifiori
  • Teodoro Cicogna
  • Franco Marchesi
  • Oscar Mercurelli
  • Roberto Di Massimo
  • Maurizio Tocchi
  • John Thorner
  • Marcello Formica
  • Gérard Herter
  • Giampiero Frondini
  • Gianni Turillazzi
  • Gerig Domain
  • Mino Bellei

Production and release

Francesco di Assisi was shot on 16 mm film and aired in two parts on RAI television on 6 and 8 May 1966, reaching an audience of approx. 20 million viewers.[1][2][5] It was shown out of competition at the 27th Venice International Film Festival the same year[1] and eventually saw a limited cinema release in 1972.[2][5]

Reception

Although successful,[1] Cavani's film, compared with the works of directors Roberto Rossellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini,[6] was also received controversially and divided viewers, critics and Catholic groups in particular.[1] Labelled by a member of the Movimento Sociale Italiano as "heretical, blasphemous and offensive for the faith of the Italian people", it was praised by Italo Moscati for breaking the boundaries of "television conformism".[1] In a round table discussion, Pasolini, who had liked Rossellini's interpretation of Francis of Assisi (see The Flowers of St. Francis), dismissed Cavani's film, criticising Castel's "bourgeois" portrayal of the titular character[6] and Cavani's omission of the "oriental" aspect of his life and the performed miracles, and her turning him into a man of action.[7]

Legacy

Francesco di Assisi was digitally restored in 2007.[5] It has since been screened, among other events, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2013,[8] at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in 2020[9] and at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York, in 2023.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Film title according to the film's opening credits[3] and the restored RAI DVD release.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Marrone, Gaetana (2000). The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 17 ff.
  2. ^ a b c d "Francesco di Assisi". RAI Teche (in Italian). Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  3. ^ Cavani, Liliana (director) (1966). Francesco di Assisi [Francis of Assisi] (film) (in Italian).
  4. ^ "Francesco di Assisi". RAI Home Video (in Italian). Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d "Francesco d'Assisi". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  6. ^ a b Domenico, Roy (2021). The Devil and the Dolce Vita. Catholic Attempts to Save Italy's Soul, 1948-1974. Catholic University of America Press. p. 302. ISBN 9780813234335.
  7. ^ Barattoni, Luca (2013). Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780748685929.
  8. ^ "Francis of Assisi / Francesco d'Assisi". Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Sotto le stelle del cinema: Weekend con Liliana Cavani e Carlo Lucarelli". Il Cinema Ritrovato (in Italian). Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Liliana Cavani @ the Italian Cultural Institute in New York". Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York. Retrieved 1 March 2024.


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