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Year: 1951. Original title: Il Cristo proibito. Synopsis: Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager.
The Forbidden Christ: Directed by Curzio Malaparte. With Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli, Alain Cuny, Anna Maria Ferrero. Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager.
A story about innocence and guilt, and forgiveness, and the insanity of war. Really remarkable. Review by Scott Kelly ★★★½ 1. Revenge, sacrifice, and forgiveness are in the air in this post-WW2 healing film that takes a New Testament allegory route.
Il Cristo proibito è un film del 1951, l'unico diretto da Curzio Malaparte. Malaparte può esserne considerato unico autore, infatti curò il soggetto, i dialoghi, la sceneggiatura, il commento musicale e la regia.
Eugenio Fontana Producer. Critics reviews. In the autumn of 1950, after ten years of war and captivity in Russia, Bruno, an Italian worker, returns to his home country. There, people know of his decision to find and kill the person who betrayed his brother to the fascists and who is responsible for his death…
Raf Vallone ( Bitter Rice) plays Bruno a soldier released from a POW camp that has returned to his walled Tuscan village with one thing on his mind – find and kill the one time Partisan turned Judas who betrayed his brother to the occupying Nazis.
After World War II, the former POW Bruno Baldi returns to his village in Toscana with the intention of revenging his brother, Giulio, betrayed by a villager and shot by a German firing squad. However neither his parents nor his friends reveal the name of the culprit to avoid another bloodbath in their village.
