4 Men 1 Woman October 15–22, 2009

This October Istanbul Modern Cinema will be presenting “4 Men 1 Woman”, a program of films about five mavericks who both made their mark on the history of popular culture and were sources of inspiration for others. The program, which is being held in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Center, begins on October 15th and ends on the 22nd.

The central characters of this eight-day program consist of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial director-scenarist and “bad boy” of Italian cinema; Caravaggio, the first great artist of the Baroque school of painting; Dostoyevsky, one of the greatest psychologists in world literature; Tony Vilar, a legendary South American pop singer of the 1960s; and Sibilla Aleramo, an Italian author and feminist rebel.

THE DEMONS OF SAINT PETERSBURG (I DEMONI DI SAN PIETROBURGO), 2008
Italy | 35mm, Color, 118’ | Italian
Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Cast: Miki Manojlovic, Carolina Crescentini, Anita Caprioli

CARAVAGGIO, 2007
Italy | 35mm, Color, 130’ | Italian
Director: Angelo Longoni
Cast: Alessio Boni, Paolo Briguglia, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jordi Mollà

THE TRUE LEGEND OF TONY VILAR (LA VERA LEGGENDA DI TONY VILAR), 2006
Italy | 35mm, Color, 93’ | Italian
Director: Giuseppe Gagliardi
Cast: Peppe Voltarelli, Roy Paci, Dario De Luca, Saverio La Ruina

PASOLINI'S RAGE (LA RABBIA DI PASOLINI), 1963-2008
Italy| 35mm, Black-White, 78’ | Italian, English
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci

A JOURNEY CALLED LOVE (UN VIAGGIO CHIAMATO AMORE), 2002
Italy | 35mm, Color, 96’ | Italian
Director: Michele Placido
Cast: Laura Morante, Stefano Accorsi, Alessandro Haber, Galatea Ranzi