19/10/2022 - The series by the Italian maestro will be the recipient of the award for European Innovative Storytelling at the upcoming European Film Awards

On the occasion of the 35th European Film Awards on 10 December in Reykjavik, the European Film Academy is honouring the Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio with the Award for European Innovative Storytelling for his outstanding mini-series Exterior Night [+see also:
series review
trailer
interview: Marco Bellocchio
series profile]. The director will be guest of honour at the awards ceremony in Iceland.

The European Film Academy has introduced this new category in 2020 to reflect the changes in the cinematic landscape and to celebrate the great innovative achievements in European storytelling. With Exterior Night, Marco Bellocchio returns to the case of the kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades in 1978. Already at the centre of his feature film Good Morning, Night [+see also:
trailer
interview: Marco Bellocchio, director …
film profile], Bellocchio now dedicates a six-part mini-series to it. Exterior Night takes different outside points of view – Moro’s fellow senior party colleagues, Red Brigade terrorists not in charge of the kidnapping, the Pope at the time, Paul VI, and Moro’s family.

Exterior Night is a RAI series produced by Fremantle Group subsidiary The Apartment alongside Kavac Film, in collaboration with RAI Fiction and in co-production with Arte France. The series is distributed worldwide by Fremantle.

By being bestowed upon Marco Bellocchio, the award goes to a filmmaker who has been active and never stopped searching for over 50 years.