Life as a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli (2019)

Piero Vivarelli, Life as a B-Movie (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.
Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli
Adriano Aragozzini, Pupi Avati, Lars Bloch, Beryl Cunningham, Steve Della Casa, Maria Pia Fusco, Marco Giusti, Manlio Gomarasca, Emir Kusturica, Umberto Lenzi, Gianni Minà, Vincenzo Mollica, Giona Nazzaro, Franco Nero, Rita Pavone, Olivier Père, Franco Rossetti, Gabriele Salvatores, Quentin Tarantino, Enrico Vanzina
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