Brunello Rondi

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Brunello Rondi (born November 26, 1924 in Tirano , Province of Sondrio , Lombardy , † November 7, 1989 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director , who was best known for his work for Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini , and twice for was nominated for an Oscar .

Life

Rondi began his career in the film industry as a screenwriter for the film Ultimo Amore (1947), a film drama directed by Luigi Chiarini starring Clara Calamai , Andrea Checchi and Carlo Ninchi . However, he celebrated his early successes in particular as a playwright. By 1988 he wrote the scripts and templates for thirty films and was also involved in some of these productions as assistant director and art director .

In 1961, together with Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, he was nominated for the Nastro d'Argento film prize awarded by the professional association of Italian film journalists SNGCI ( Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ) in the category “Best Screenplay” for The Sweet Life ( La dolce vita , 1960) by Federico Fellini with Marcello Mastroianni , Anouk Aimée , Yvonne Furneaux , Anita Ekberg and Alain Cuny . For this film, he, Fellini, Flaiano and Pinelli were also nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 1962 Academy Awards.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Rondi also began his work as a film director, initially as co-director of the Pasolini film Una vita violenta (1962), which is reminiscent of Italian neorealism , to which Rondi's later films such as Ingrid sulla strada (1973) are close . At the Venice International Film Festival in 1963 he received a nomination for the best debut film for the horror film Il demonio (1963) with Daliah Lavi , Frank Wolff and Anna María Aveta . In the following, the film was heavily censored before its theatrical release in Italy, like numerous later directing works by Rondi. In 1964, together with Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, and Tullio Pinelli, he received the Nastro d'Argento for the best screenplay for the Fellini-directed film Eight and Half ( 8½ or Otto e mezzo , 1963), in which Claudia Cardinale alongside Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimée participated. Fellini, Flaiano, Pinelli and Rondi were nominated again for the Oscar for best original screenplay in 1964 .

After a few commercial failures, by the beginning of the 1970s he was increasingly dependent on working with elements of genre cinema to ensure the funding of his films. Nevertheless, this incision can be viewed as artistically fruitful, since in Rondi's fabrics and her anthropological considerations sexuality has always been an important aspect, as have social hierarchies, philosophy, esotericism and neurotic self-perceptions. As a director, he directed a total of thirteen films up to 1982, which, however , were largely judged negatively by Italian film critics, particularly towards the end of his career, due to their external proximity to exploitation films . Rondi was later rediscovered in his home country by a generation of younger film historians and honored with isolated retrospectives.

Rondi, who won the Laceno d'Oro for Best Film at the Neorealism Film Festival in 1966 , was a younger brother of film critic Gian Luigi Rondi .

Filmography (selection)

Screenwriter
Director and screenwriter
  • 1962: A violent life (Una vita violenta)
  • 1963: The demon (Il demonio)
  • 1965: Later, Claire, later (Più tardi Claire, più tardi ...)
  • 1967: We won't be here tomorrow (Domani non siamo più qui)
  • 1970: Your hands on my body (Le tue mani sul mio corpo)
  • 1972: Master of Love (Racconti proibiti ... di niente vestiti)
  • 1972: Valeria, inside and outside (Valeria dentro e fuori)
  • 1973: Technique of a love (Tecnica di un amore)
  • 1973: Ingrid on the street (Ingrid sulla strada)
  • 1974: Women in prison (Prigione di donne)
  • 1976: The matchmakers (I prosseneti)
  • 1976: Black velvet (Velluto nero)
  • 1982: Mother Teresa: The Voice (La voce)

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Rondi, Brunello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirano , Province of Sondrio , Lombardy
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1989
Place of death Rome