Enzo Monteleone

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Enzo Monteleone (born April 13, 1954 in Padua ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Monteleone was already busy with the cinema during his student days; he was the director of the university cinema club and, with his friends Roberto Citran and Carlo Mazzacurati, ran the cinema club “CinemaUno” in his native city. Early on, as part of his work for the “Circuito Cinema del Comune di Venezia”, he wrote works on Blake Edwards , Ken Russell and Werner Herzog as well as on the retrospective on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the Biennale cinema . In 1980 he was involved in the realization of the on 16mm rotated Vagabondi geteiligt by Carlo Mazzacurati, who at the festival "film-maker" in Milan .

In 1982 he moved to Rome, where he took on a variety of tasks: he wrote press books for the production companies Gaumont and Artisti Associati , was responsible for a cinema show on Italian television, and worked as a dialogue author and assistant director. In 1986 a screenplay by Monteleone was filmed for the first time: Hotel Colonial , an Italian-American co-production with Robert Duvall , John Savage , Rachel Ward and Massimo Troisi , directed by Cinzia TH Torrini .

The first of many collaborations followed with Gabriele Salvatores , for whom Monteleone wrote a total of four films: Kamikazen , in which u. a. Paolo Rossi , Silvio Orlando and Claudio Bisio played, Marrakech Express , Mediterraneo , which won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1992 , and Puerto Escondido , the Italian box office hit from the 1992-1993 season.

As a screenwriter he also wrote for several other directors of the new generation: For Mazzacurati Il prete bello ; for Giuseppe Piccioni Chiedi la luna ; for Alessandro D'Alatri The Red American and for Maurizio Sciarra Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli , winner of the Locarno Festival 2001. Shortly before his directorial debut, he was for Carlos Sauras Dispara! active, which, with Antonio Banderas and Francesca Neri , ran in competition at the 1993 Venice Film Festival .

In 1994, Monteleone's directorial debut La vera vita di Antonio H. - also presented in Venice - was a tragicomic biography with and about actor Alessandro Haber (who won a silver ribbon for best leading actor for his performance ). Monteleone was awarded the Premio Fice for his first work.

A documentary and two short films followed with Ormai è fatta! 1999 his second feature film. First presented in the competition of the Moscow Film Festival , the work and leading actor Stefano Accorsi has won several awards and received four nominations for David di Donatello in 2000.

El Alamein 1942 - The Hell of the Desert War, filmed in 2002 (he had already worked on the subject in a documentary way the year before), tells the desperate struggle of a company of Italian soldiers in one of the bloodiest desert battles. Monteleone's work was honored again: three times a David di Donatello (for the best photography, the best editing and the best music), twice a Globo D'Oro , a silver ribbon and several awards for himself as the director of the film.

In 2004 a television film followed; The two-part Il tunnel della libertà with Kim Rossi Stuart was created for Canale 5 . Based on a true story, the film tells the story of two Italian students who, after the construction of the Berlin Wall, flee with others through a tunnel from East Berlin. The miniseries Der Boss der Bosse followed three years later for the same station ; Episodes from the criminal life of Totò Riina and the Corleonesi clan. With this new format, too, Monteleone was hugely successful with both audiences and critics.

In 2009 he adapted Cristina Comencini's comedy Due partite for the screen and cast Margherita Buy , Isabella Ferrari , Paola Cortellesi and Marina Massironi in leading roles. In the summer of 2011, the two-part television film Walter Chiari - Fino all'ultima risata was made for Rai 1 , in which the adventurous life of the well-known actor Walter Chiari is told, whereby the film does not omit its darker sides. Alessio Boni played the title role.

Awards

Filmography

script

Director

  • 1994: La vera vita di Antonio H.
  • 1996: Interviste d'autore: Ettore Scola , documentary film
  • 1997: Beer & cigarettes , short film
  • 1997: Wine & cigarettes , short film
  • 1999: Ormai è fatta!
  • 2000: Piazza Vittorio , documentary film
  • 2001: Sono solo un artigiano - Intervista a Suso Cecchi d'Amico , documentary film
  • 2001: I ragazzi di El Alamein , documentary film
  • 2002: El Alamein 1942 - The hell of the desert war (El Alamein - La linea del fuoco)
  • 2004: Tunnel della libertà , TV film
  • 2007: The Boss of the Bosses (Il Capo dei Capi) , 6-part television film
  • 2009: Due partite
  • 2012: Walter Chiari - Fino all'ultima risata , TV miniseries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography at mymovies.it
  2. ^ [Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi . Rome 2002, p. 296]
  3. ↑ biography on mymovies.it
  4. ↑ biography at mymovies.it
personal data
SURNAME Monteleone, Enzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua