Rialto: First Look at 2K Restoration of Never-Before-Seen Uncut Version of Christ Stopped at Eboli

Rialto Pictures has provided us with a brand new trailer for the recent 2K restoration of Francesco Rosi's classic film Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), starring Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Lea Massari, and Irene Papas.

The new restoration will open at Film Forum in New York City on April 3.

Carlo Levi (Gian Maria Volontè), a painter, writer, doctor, and intellectual, is exiled to Grassano, an impoverished town with only one car and one toilet, in southern Italy. Levi learns to find the humanity in this seemingly backward hamlet. Made for Italian television in four 55-minute parts, it was cut in half for its 1980 U.S. release (to 2 hours — Rosi's own theatrical cut was 2½) and senselessly re-titled Eboli. This is the U.S. theatrical premiere of Rosi's complete, uncut epic.