Bernardo Bertolucci Biography (1940?-)

Born March 16, 1940 (some sources cite 1941), in Parma, Italy; son of Attilio(a poet, film critic, and teacher) and Ninetta (a teacher) Bertolucci; brother of Giuseppe Bertolucci (a screenwriter); married Adriana Asti (marriage ended); married Clare Peploe (a director and screenwriter), 1978. Addresses: Agent: International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, screenwriter, actor
Birth Details: March 16, 1940?; Parma, Italy

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Director
La commare secca, released in the United States as The Grim Reaper, Cinematografica Cervi, 1962
Prima della rivoluzione, Iride Cinematografica, 1964, released inthe United States as Before the Revolution, New Yorker Films, 1965
Il canale, 1966
"Il fico infruttuoso," Vangelo '70 (also known as Love and Anger, Amore e rabbia, Evangile 70, and La contestation), Castoro Films, 1967
Partner (also known as Il sosia), Red Films, 1968, releasedin the United States by New Yorker Films, 1968
Il conformista (also known as Der Grosse Irrtum and Le conformiste), Mars Film/Marianne Productions/Maran Films, 1970, released in the United States as The Conformist, Paramount, 1971
La strategia del ragno, Red Films, 1970, released in the United States as The Spider's Stratagem, New Yorker Films, 1973
Ultimo tango a Parigi (also known as Le dernier tango a Paris), released in the United States as Last Tango in Paris, United Artists, 1973
Novecento (also known as 1900--Gewalt, Macht, Leidenschaftand 1900--Kampf, Liebe, Hoffnung), released in the United States as 1900 (also known as Nineteen Hundred), Paramount, 1977
La luna, released in the United States as Luna, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
La tragedia dell'uomo ridicolo, Fiction Cinematografica, 1981, released in the United States as Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, Ladd, 1982
L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer, 1984
The Last Emperor (also known as Le dernier empereur and L'ultimo imperatore), Columbia, 1987
The Sheltering Sky (also known as Il te nel deserto), Warner Bros., 1990
Little Buddha, Miramax, 1993
Stealing Beauty (also known as Beaute volee and Io balloda sola), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1996
Besieged (also known as The Siege and L'assedio), Fine Line, 1998
"Bologna," 12 registi per 12 citta, Instituto Luce, 1998
Paradiso e inferno, 1999
Heaven and Hell, 2001
"Histoire d'eaux," Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, 2002
The Dreamers, Fox Searchlight, 2003
Producer
Sconcerto Rock, 1982
Io con te non ci sto piu, 1983
The Triumph of Love (also known as Il trionfo dell'amore),Paramount Classics, 2001
Also producer of Lost and Found.
Other
(Assistant director and production assistant to Pier Paolo Pasolini) Accatone (also known as Accattone!), Cine del Duca-Arco, 1962
Film Appearances
Bertolucci secondo il cinema (also known as The Cinema according to Bertolucci and The Making of "1900"), Bauer International, 1975
Himself, Wie de Waarheid Zegt Moet Dood (also known as WhoeverSays the Truth Shall Die), 1981
De Domeinen Ditvoorst (also known as The Ditvoorst Domains), CineTe Filmproduktie, 1993
Jean Renoir, 1993
Himself, La vera vita de Antonio H. (also known as The True Life of Antonio H.), 1994
Himself (director), The Story of X, 1997

Himself, Kurosawa: The Last Emperor, 1999
Himself, Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno, 2001
Himself (in archive footage), Farough Farroukhzad, 2002
Television Work
Director
La via del petrolio (three-part documentary about petroleum; contains "Attraverso l'Europa," "Il viaggio," and "Le origini"), RAI, 1965-1966
I poveri muoino prima (documentary on poverty for the Italian Communist Party), 1971
La salute e malata (documentary on health reforms for the ItalianCommunist Party), 1972
Television Appearances
Specials
Himself, Cinema de notre temps: Pasolini l'enrage, 1966
Omnibus, ABC, 1988
Master of the courtyard, Golem, l'esprit de l'exil (also known asGolem, the Ghost of Exile and Golem, the Spirit of the Exile),Channel 4, 1992
Addicted to Fame, 1994
Himself, Empire of the Censors, 1995
Himself, Leaud l'unique, 2001
Himself, Bernardo Bertolucci: A cosa serve il cinema? (also knownas Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?), 2002
Himself, Claude Jutra, portrait sur film (also known as ClaudeJutra, an Unfinished Story), 2002
Episodic
Himself, Willemsens Woche, 1994
WRITINGS
Screenplays
(With Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti) La commare secca (adapted from a story by Pasolini), released in the United States as The Grim Reaper, Cinematografica Cervi, 1962, published by G. Zibetti, 1962
(With Gianni Amico) Prima della rivoluzione (based on the story "The Charterhouse of Parma," by Stendhal), Iride Cinematografica, 1964, released in the United States as Before the Revolution, New Yorker Films, 1965
(With others) Ballata di un milliardo, 1966
"Il fico infruttuoso," Vangelo '70 (also known as Love and Anger, Amore e rabbia, Evangile 70, and La contestation), Castoro Films, 1967
(With Sergio Leone) C'era una volta il West, released in the United States as Once upon a Time in the West, Paramount, 1968
(With Amico) Partner (also known as Il sosia; adapted fromthe novel The Double, by Feodor Dostoevsky), Red Films, 1968, releasedin the United States by New Yorker Films, 1968
Il conformista (also known as Der Grosse Irrtum and Le conformiste; adapted from the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia),Mars Film/Marianne Productions/Maran Films, 1970, released in the United States as The Conformist, Paramount, 1971
(With Marilu Parolini and Edoardo De Gregorio) La strategia del ragno (adapted from the story "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," by Jorge Luis Borges, the opera Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi, and the work of ReneMagritte), Red Films, 1970, released in the United States as The Spider'sStratagem, New Yorker Films, 1973
(With others) L'inchiesa, 1971
(With Franco Arcalli) Ultimo tango a Parigi (also known as Le dernier tango a Paris), released in the United States as Last Tango inParis, United Artists, 1973, published in Bernardo Bertolucci's "LastTango in Paris" (contains the screenplay by Bertolucci and Arcalli and essays by Pauline Kael and Norman Mailer), Delacorte (New York City), 1973
(With Arcalli and Giuseppe Bertolucci) Novecento (also known as 1900-- Gewalt, Macht, Leidenschaft and 1900--Kampf, Liebe, Hoffnung), released in the United States as 1900 (also known as NineteenHundred), Paramount, 1977, published in two volumes, Einaudi, 1976
(With Arcalli, G. Bertolucci, and Clare Peploe) La luna, releasedin the United States as Luna, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
La tragedia dell'uomo ridicolo, Fiction Cinematografica, 1981, released in the United States as Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, Ladd, 1982
(With Mark Peploe and Enzo Ungari) The Last Emperor (also known asLe dernier empereur and L'ultimo imperatore; adapted from theautobiography From Emperor to Citizen, by Pu Yi with Li Wenda), Columbia, 1987
(With Mark Peploe) The Sheltering Sky (also known as Il te neldeserto; adapted from the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles), WarnerBros., 1990
(And story) Little Buddha, Miramax, 1993
(Story) Stealing Beauty (also known as Beaute volee and Io ballo da sola), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1996
Besieged (also known as The Siege and L'assedio), Fine Line, 1998
The Triumph of Love (also known as Il trionfo dell'amore),Paramount Classics, 2001
"Histoire d'eaux," Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, 2002
The Dreamers, Fox Searchlight, 2003
Also wrote the unproduced screenplay Red Harvest (adapted from thebook by Dashiell Hammett).
Teleplays
La via del petrolio (three-part documentary about petroleum; contains "Attraverso l'Europa," "Il viaggio," and "Le origini"), RAI, 1965-1966
I poveri muoino prima (documentary on poverty for the Italian Communist Party), 1971
La salute e malata (documentary on health reforms for the ItalianCommunist Party), 1972
Stage Plays
Agonia (based on "Il fico infruttuoso," Vangelo '70), produced by the Living Theatre, 1967
Poetry
In cerca del mistero (title means "In Search of Mystery"), Longanesi (Milan, Italy), 1962
Contributor of poems to Italian periodicals.
Nonfiction
(With Don Ranvaud and Enzo Ungari) Bertolucci by Bertolucci, Plexus, 1987
Contributor of articles on films and filmmaking to periodicals, includingCahiers du cinema, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, and Rolling Stone.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Authors, Volume 106, Gale, 1982
Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Volume 18, Gale, 1998
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 2: Directors, St. James Press, 1996

Periodicals

Entertainment Weekly, January 28, 1994, p. 76
Hollywood Reporter, April 11, 1988, pp. 22, 70
Interview, May, 1988, pp. 74-78
Maclean's, November 5, 2001, p. 61
People Weekly, May 9, 1988, p. 63
Rolling Stone, January 14, 1988, p. 33
Variety, May 22, 2000, p. 74

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