In 1979 Rosi directed '' Christ Stopped at Eboli '' , based on the memoir of the same name by Carlo Levi , again with Volonté as the protagonist . It won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival and was to win BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1983 . Rosi had been invited by the state-owned television service RAI to select a subject for filming , and the four-part television programme was cut into a 141-minute feature film which he described as " a journey through my own conscience " . Shipman writes , " the film retains all the mystery of Rosi 's best work – an enquiry where at least half the answers are withheld . In this enquiry there is a respect for the historical process , but the usual magisterial blend of art and dialectic is softened by a sympathy much deeper than that of '' Il Momento Della Verità '' . The occasional self-conscious shot that we associate with peasantry can not mar it . " After another successful film '' Three Brothers '' ( " Tre fratelli " , 1981 ) , with Philippe Noiret , Michele Placido and Vittorio Mezzogiorno , Rosi wanted bring the novel '' The Truce '' by Primo Levi , to the big screen , but the suicide of the writer in April 1987 forced him to give the project up . The film was finally made only in 1997 . He directed a film adaptation of '' Carmen '' ( 1984 ) with Plácido Domingo and subsequently he worked on '' Chronicle of a Death Foretold '' ( 1987 ) , adapted from the novel by Gabriel García Márquez , which brought together a great cast including Gian Maria Volonté , Ornella Muti , Rupert Everett , Anthony Delon and Lucia Bosè . The film was shot in Mompox , Colombia
11th Moscow International Film Festival
11th Moscow International Film Festival
Francesco Rosi