Carmelo Bene | |
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Bene in Our Lady of the Turks (1968) | |
| Born | 1 September 1937 Campi Salentina, Italy |
| Died | 16 March 2002 (aged 64) Rome, Italy |
| Occupations | Actor, theater director, writer, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1967–2002 |
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| Children | 1 |
Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio 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.
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.