The story follows a real life anti-fascist intellectual, Carlo Levi, into his forced exile in small, isolated village in a remote region of Southern Italy.
The village is populated by inhabitants who barely survive on the meager harvest of the unyielding land. Eboli, the closest train station, is the last outpost of civilization (such as it is) before entering a world that has changed very little since the Middle Ages.
The movie title, after the book written by Carlo Levi, expresses all the sense of abandon, neglect, desolation and human despair. According to the local tales, even Christ, in his southward journey, went no further than Eboli. Beyond that point, not even God dared (or could be bothered) to go...
cast: Gian Maria Volonté .... Carlo Levi
Paolo Bonacelli .... Don Luigi Magalone
Alain Cuny .... Barone Nicola Rotunno
Lea Massari .... Luisa Levi
Irene Papas .... Giulia Venere
François Simon .... Don Traiella
Antonio Allocca .... Don Cosimino
Accursio Di Leo .... Il falegname
Vincenzo Licata .... L'italo-americano
Tommy Polgár .... Sanaporcelle (as Tommaso Polgar)
Stavros Tornes
Enzo Vitale .... Dottore Milillo.
Runtime: uncut at 213 minutes
Country: France / Italy
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Colour (Technospes)
very rare 4 hour version
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