Carlo Cecchi
Carlo Cecchi (born January 25, 1939 in Florence ) is an Italian actor .
Life
Cecchi received his artistic training in workshops with Eduardo De Filippo and at the Living Theater in New York. After first films in the late 1960s, he devoted himself completely to the theater for two decades from 1971, where the charismatic and hoarse-voiced, often unnaturally accentuating actor developed into an important actor and director of absolute theater. From 1971 connected to the “Granteatro” cooperative, which was later expanded to form the “Teatro Nicolini” ensemble in Florence, played and staged (at the suggestion of his writer friend Elsa Morante ) Cecchi great classics of theater history in a combination of Italian folk theater and the flair of Avant-garde stages. Always culturally critical, he describes the stage as "the only art form that cannot be found on the Internet".
After his initial experiences and the subsequent refusal to play (for example, he turned down the leading role in Marco Bellocchio's Salto nel vuoto in 1980 ), he only returned to the cinema in 1991, when stage director Mario Martone was able to win him over for Morte di un matematico napoletano , who received a special prize was awarded at the Venice Film Festival . This was followed by a number of films with artistic aspirations, most of which were appropriately implemented and at least became critical successes. Cecchi played the strict and uncompromising judge in The Escort (1993), the snobbish journalist in Io ballo da sola (1996) and the enigmatic and seedy shaman-scientist in L'arcano incantatore (also 1996). In 2013 he was nominated for a David di Donatello for his performance in Valeria Golinos Miele .
Filmography (selection)
- 1966: Blind man's cow (A mosca cieca)
- 1969: His glory day (La sua giornata di gloria)
- 1969: The damned of the earth (I dannati della terra)
- 1993: The Escort (La scorta)
- 1993: The web of the past (La fine è nota)
- 1995: The hussar on the roof (Le Hussard sur le toît)
- 1996: Feeling and Seduction (Sleeping Beauty)
- 1997: Hamam - The Turkish bath (Il bagno turco)
- 1998: The Red Violin (The Red Violin)
- 2000: An Impossible Crime (Un delitto impossibile)
- 2004: John XXIII. - For a world in peace (Il papa buono)
- 2006: Eiskalt - Arrivederci amore, ciao (Arrivederci amore, ciao)
- 2013: Miele
- 2019: Martin Eden
Web links
- Carlo Cecchi in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Carlo Cecchi at treccani.it (with wrong year of birth)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carlo Cecchi to MyMovies (Italian).
- ↑ Andrea Oribicciani, article Carlo Cecchi , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998, pp. 112/113
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cecchi, Carlo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |