Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli

Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli

90 mins | Documentary | Sept. 4, 2019

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.

Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli

90 mins | Documentary | Sept. 4, 2019

Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Tea Time Film
Original title Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli
Directors Niccolò Vivarelli, Fabrizio Laurenti
Writers Niccolò Vivarelli, Fabrizio Laurenti

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