Dino De Laurentiis

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Dino De Laurentiis, September 14th 2009 in Los Angeles

Dino De Laurentiis (born: Agostino de Laurentiis ; born August 8, 1919 in Torre Annunziata , † November 10, 2010 in Los Angeles , USA ) was an Italian film producer .

Life

Dino De Laurentiis was born the son of a pasta maker near Naples. Even in his youth, the cinema became an important fantasy world for him. “I've always been in love with the cinema,” he later recalled. At the age of 17 he left school in his hometown and went to Rome to study at a film school. During this relatively short time, however, he took any job that had something to do with the cinema. Even as an actor, he was engaged several times. He became a film producer as early as 1939, but the Second World War slowed him down in his urge to pursue a film career. As a soldier in the Italian Army, he had to go to the front. But when he returned from this confusion, he founded his own production company for films in 1946. The first film he made was " Bitter Rice " with the director Giuseppe De Santis (1917–1997) and with the actress Silvana Mangano (1930–1989) in the lead role. It hit theaters in 1949 and was fateful for its further development. Because the film turned out to be a classic of Italian neorealism and De Laurentiis married Silvana in July of the same year.

In total, Dino De Laurentiis was married twice. His first wife, until her death in December 1989, was the actress Silvana Mangano De Laurentiis'. The marriage had four children; three daughters and one son. The eldest daughter Veronica De Laurentiis (* 1950) is now an actress; Raffaella De Laurentiis (* 1954) became a film producer like her father; Francesca De Laurentiis (* 1961) also works as a filmmaker. Her son Federico De Laurentiis, who also worked as a film producer, died in a plane crash in 1981 at the age of 26.

In April 1990 Dino De Laurentiis married for the second time, the film producer Martha Schumacher . With her he had two daughters Carolyna De Laurentiis (* 1988) and Dina De Laurentiis (* 1990), who work as actresses.

His nephew, Aurelio De Laurentiis, is a film producer and now president of the SSC Napoli football club .

Career

After this first film success, Dino De Laurentiis worked very closely with Carlo Ponti , the most successful Italian film producer, in the 1950s . In 1952 they brought the film “Europa 1951” with Ingrid Bergman to the screen. Then they produced “La Strada” with Federico Fellini , which won an Oscar. Shortly afterwards in 1954 the epic “The Voyage of Odysseus”. And then in 1956 "War and Peace" came to the cinemas with a strong international cast. But when he then founded the film studio "Dinocitta" the thread of success broke. That didn't work and he himself realized that this step was a mistake.

Then Dino De Laurentiis went to the USA despite poor knowledge of English and almost started all over again. But he was not deterred by the difficulties of the first steps. The road to success began to reopen with the police film "Serpico" in 1973, music by Mikis Theodorakis and Al Pacino in the lead role. This was followed by Sydney Pollack's “The Three Days of the Condors” in 1975 with Robert Redford and in 1977 “The Snake Egg” with Ingmar Bergman as director and the Swede Liv Ullmann as actress. When "Conan the Barbarian" was released in 1982, this film was also the starting point for the long career of the Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger . In total there have been more than 150 films that make up Dino de Laurentiis' life's work. For this he received the Irving Thalberg Award in 2001 for his life's work and in 2003 the Venice Film Festival honored him in a special way.

In 2004 he founded CLA Studios in Ouarzazate , Morocco , together with Cinecittà and Sanam Holding as a joint venture .

Dino De Laurentiis died at the age of 91 on November 10, 2010 in Beverly Hills.

Filmography (selection)

actor

  • 1939: Alarm in the department store (I grandi magazzini) - directed by Mario Camerini
  • 1940: Women's Darling (Boccaccio) - Director: Marcello Albani

Unit manager

producer

Awards

De Laurentiis received the David di Donatello five times for his films. He received the award for his life's work at the International Film Festival in Venice and in 2000 the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award as part of the Oscar -Verleihung. He also won an Oscar as a producer for Federico Fellini's La Strada - The Song of the Street .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dino De Laurentiis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis Dies at Age 91 . In: USA Today . 
  2. ↑ S.Vahabzadeh, 150 films and an error, Süddeutsche Zeitung of 11 November 2010
  3. ↑ Magdi Aboul-Kheir, Also Flops for Eternity, Südwestpresse from November 12, 2010, in www.neckar-chronick.de
  4. ↑ sha (DPA) Oscar winner Dino De Laurentiis is dead, Spiegel from November 11, 2010
personal data
SURNAME De Laurentiis, Dino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurentiis, Agostino de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Torre Annunziata
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2010
Place of death Los Angeles , California