Corso Salani
Corso Salani (born September 9, 1961 in Florence , † June 16, 2010 in Ostia ) was an Italian actor , screenwriter and film director .
Life
Salani graduated in 1984 in his hometown at the “Istituto di Science Cinematografiche” and then works as an assistant to Carlo Mazzacurati . In 1989 he moved to Rome and made a double debut; as an actor, he joined Daniele Luchettis La settimana delle sfinge and as a director he laid the melancholy, the troubled and uncertain affective months of youth in Hungary , Gibraltar and Spain signs ends, twisted without much financial resources Voci d'Europa ago. His subsequent work as an actor was initially more successful than that of the director Salani, who staged himself according to his own script, and sometimes did not get beyond festival assignments. In Marco Risi's Il muro di gomma he played a journalist, in his own films he always played his alter ego Alberto.
At the Locarno Film Festival, his film Imatra was awarded the special jury prize in 2007.
Salanai died of a heart attack while at the beach. The “Associazione Corso Salani”, founded in late 2010, deals with his work and awards a prize named after the director for independent debut films.
Filmography (selection)
- 1989: La settimana delle sfinge
- 1989: Voci d'Europa (& screenplay, director)
- 1991: The Last Days (Gli ultimi giorni) (& screenplay, director)
- 2004: The wind, in the evening (Il vento, di sera)
- 2007: Imatra (& screenplay, director)
- 2008: Mar nero
Web links
- Corso Salani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 379
- ^ Website of the Associazione
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salani, Corso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor, screenwriter and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2010 |
| Place of death | Ostia |