![]() ![]() Many citizens live in small dwellings carved out of a cave in the side of the hills. The main cathedral was destroyed by the weather and the impossibility of proper maintenance. ![]() They have a kind of moribund grandeur to them but seem to teeter eternally on the brink of collapse. The buildings are in a state of advanced decay. The soil is unforgiving and near-barren there is little vegetation or even rocks to slow the erosion that follows the occasional heavy rains. There are few toilets (most inhabitants use chamber pots). ![]() The town is remote from the infrastructure of most of modern Italy. The film is based on Levi’s memoir of his stay (roughly a year and a half) in the town of Aliano (although both the memoir and the film substitute the town with the fictitious Gagliano) in the region then known as Lucania (now Basilicata) that occupies the “instep” of the Italian boot. Christ Stopped at Eboli( Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) tracks the journey of painter Carlo Levi (Gian Maria Volonté), who has been made a confino that is, he has been consigned by the fascist administration of Benito Mussolini in 1935 to “internal exile”, banished from his hometown of Turino (a hotbed of anti-fascist activity) to a small village in the deep Southern part of Italy. ![]()
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