Life and Career
Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellochio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher. He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, making his first film, Fists in the Pocket, (Pugni in tasca), funded by family members and shot on family property, in 1965.
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