Ettore Scola

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Ettore Scola (born May 10, 1931 in Trevico , Campania , † January 19, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Scola, the son of a doctor, was already drawing as a cartoonist for the satirical newspaper Marc 'Aurelio at the age of 16 and thus came into contact with the young Federico Fellini and the “world of Italian post-war film”. After school, Scola first began studying medicine, which he gave up in favor of studying law. After graduating, he worked as a screenwriter for several years before making his directorial debut in 1964.

The filmmaker, who in his early comedies was also not afraid of “hearty slapstick”, developed a “film language” in the 1970s that earned him international recognition and for the next decade he was the “legitimate heir of Rossellini , de Sica and Fellini”. he lifted. Scola received several prestigious film awards as a result. He was honored with the main prize at the 1974 Moscow International Film Festival for his dramatic comedy We were so in love , and in 1977 the film was awarded the César in the category of best foreign film . For his drama The Dirty, the Ugly and the Common ( Brutti, Sporchi e Cattivi ), he received the prize for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976 . "His most famous film from 1977", the "Fascism Study" A special day , was announced in 1978 a. a. a Golden Globe Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film Award and received Oscar nomination in the same category.

As a director he realized a total of 41 film projects and as a writer he was involved in more than 80 productions. The central theme of Scola was “always the representation of social conditions against the background of politics. The focus is often outsiders, sometimes provocative, sometimes comedic.

Although Scola had officially said goodbye to filmmaking at the age of 80, he presented his last work Che strano chiamarsi Federico at the Venice Film Festival in 2013 , an " Eloge to his dear colleague Federico Fellini assembled from scenes from the game and film clips ". A documentary about Scola's life and artistic work, entitled Ridendo e Scherzando , premiered at the 2015 Rome Film Festival, with Scola's daughters Paola and Silvia being responsible for the script and direction.

Ettore Scola died on January 19, 2016 in Rome at the age of 84 . In an obituary in the daily Corriere della Sera , he is named as the “most political filmmaker” in Italy, who has been distinguished by “extraordinary clairvoyance”. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi praised the filmmaker as a “master in the art of observing Italian society”, while the Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini said: “A great master, an extraordinary man who has remained young to the last day of his life.”

Filmography

D = script, R = director

literature

  • Remi Lanzoni, Edward Bowen (Ed.): The Cinema of Ettore Scola. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2020, ISBN 978-0-8143-4379-1 .

Web links

Commons : Ettore Scola  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tilmann Kleinjung: Director with an unmistakable style. Deutschlandfunk , January 20, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Filmmaker Ettore Scola is dead. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 20, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Patrick Straumann: The active melancholic. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 20, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  4. ^ Peter W. Jansen : Ettore Scola: Nachfahr, Vorfahr. Der Tagesspiegel , May 9, 2001, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Ettore Scola, Italian film director and screenwriter, dies at 84. The Guardian , January 20, 2016, accessed January 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Tilmann Kleinjung: "He told Italy with his films". Tagesschau.de , January 20, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Simmon: Ettore Scola, an obituary. Arte , January 20, 2016, accessed January 21, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: comedian, chronicler, master. Der Tagesspiegel , January 20, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Director Ettore Scola has died. Tagesschau.de , accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Italian filmmaker: Ettore Scola is dead. Spiegel Online , January 20, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  11. ^ Rome Film Fest. Tributes: previews, screenings, restored films, conversations, and events. (No longer available online.) Fondazione Cinema per Roma, September 29, 2015, archived from the original on January 21, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.romacinemafest.it
  12. ↑ Director Ettore Scola is dead. Zeit Online , January 20, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Kinowelt mourns star director Ettore Scola. Euronews , January 20, 2016, accessed January 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Scola, Ettore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Trevico , Campania, Italy
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2016
Place of death Rome