| Milarepa | |
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| Directed by | Liliana Cavani |
| Written by | Liliana Cavani Italo Moscati |
| Starring | Lajos Balázsovits Paolo Bonacelli Marisa Fabbri [it] |
| Cinematography | Armando Nannuzzi |
| Edited by | Franco Arcalli |
| Music by | Daniele Paris |
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| Distributed by | RAI |
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| Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Languages | Italian Vietnamese |
Milarepa is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani. The film tells the story of the famous Tibetan yogi and poet Milarepa.
Cast
- Lajos Balázsovits as Leo Milarepa
- Paolo Bonacelli as Prof. Bennet
- Marisa Fabbri [it] as Milarepa's mother
- Marcella Michelangeli as Karin
- George Wang
Production and release
Milarepa was shot in Abruzzo in autumn 1972 and premiered in Pistoia, Italy, on 28 December 1973. It was released in January 1974 and aired on television in June the same year.
The film was screened in competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.
Reception
Milarepa received mostly positive reviews by Italian critics, including Pier Paolo Pasolini (who titled it a "truly beautiful film"), Alberto Moravia and Lino Miccichè. Still, some reviewers were critical of the film, like Francesco Savio [it] of Il mondo, who dismissed it as "unnecessary" and "purely decorative".
Awards
- 1973 Carpine d'oro
References
- ^ Marrone, Gaetana (2000). The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- ^ "Milarepa". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 10 March 2024.
- "Milarepa". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
External links
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