Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli

Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 4, 2019

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

73%

Original Title

Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli

Production Companies

Tea Time Film, Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Director

Fabrizio Laurenti

Description

The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci's Western "Django," adored by Quentin Tarantino, are intertwined in a portrait of an unsung postwar provocateur and revolutionary (the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card signed by Fidel Castro). The creative doc is also a prism into an unexplored territory of Italian — and by extension global — pop culture and its unique vitality.