Caravaggio docufilm by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky opens in Italian cinemas, launching I Grandi Maestri series

Key facts

• Caravaggio, a docufilm by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky, screens in about one hundred Italian cinemas on 4, 5 and 6 October.
• The film was made over five years and was already shown in the United Kingdom in 2025.
• It follows Caravaggio's life through Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily, using high-definition footage of paintings such as La Deposizione di Cristo, Buona ventura, La Vocazione di San Matteo and Il Martirio di San Matteo.
• Actor Jack Bannon provides the voice of Caravaggio, portrayed near death reviewing his life and work.
• Participants include art historians Helen Langdon and Fabio Scaletti, artist Stephen Nelson and Letizia Treves of Christie's.
• The documentary opens I Grandi Maestri, a five-film series produced by Kublai Film with Exhibition on Screen, I Wonder Pictures, ARTE/ZDF, 3B Produktion and CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo.
• The series continues with Werner Herzog. Radical Dreamer on 29-30 November and 1 December, Frida Kahlo on 14-16 February 2027, Michael Ende. Una storia infinita on 14-16 March 2027 and Turner & Constable on 18-20 April 2027.
• All films in the cycle are screened in their original version with subtitles.