Beyond Good and Evil (film)

Beyond Good and Evil (Italian: Al di là del bene e del male; UK title: Beyond Evil) is a 1977 Italian-French drama-biographical film co-written and directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson and Robert Powell. The story follows the intense relationship formed in the 1880s between Friedrich Nietzsche, Lou Salomé and Paul Rée.

Beyond Good and Evil
(Al di là del bene e del male)
Belgian film poster
Directed byLiliana Cavani
Written byLiliana Cavani
Franco Arcalli
Italo Moscati
Produced byRobert Gordon Edwards
StarringDominique Sanda
Robert Powell
Erland Josephson
Virna Lisi
CinematographyArmando Nannuzzi
Distributed byLes Artistes Associés (United Artists)
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
127 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguagesItalian
English

This is the second part of "The German Trilogy" directed by Liliana Cavani. In The Night Porter she portrayed the connection between perversion and fascism. This time she depicts the life of Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher who wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil.

Virna Lisi won the Nastro d'Argento Best supporting Actress award (Silver Ribbon) from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for her role as Elisabeth Nietzsche.

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