Francesco Maselli

Francesco Maselli (born December 9, 1930 in Rome ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Maselli, the son of an art critic, was active on the part of the Resistancea at a young age and enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia at the age of seventeen , which he left with a diploma two years later. He was assistant director to Luigi Chiarini and worked with Michelangelo Antonioni ; in addition, he made his first documentaries (which he kept doing until the late 1960s), which were received with great interest. In 1953 he made his debut as a feature film director with his contribution to the episode film Amore in città and two years later he presented a brilliant work with Gli sbandati in which he reflected on the political turmoil surrounding the armistice in Cassibile . After the socially critical La donna del giorno and I delfini , in which he described the hopelessness of the provincial youth in 1960, he filmed Alberto Moravia's first novel , Gli indifferenti , 1963. After two genre films, the again politically committed Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera followed in 1969 . Il sospetto from 1974 describes the experiences of an Italian communist worker in France in 1934. His later works remain notable works; Storia d'amore , a modern neorealistic film, won the special prize of the jury in Venice in 1986 .

In 1996 he again attracted increased attention with his film Cronache dal terzo millenio, an anti-capitalist appeal; At the G8 meeting in Genoa he was responsible for the overall direction of the documentary Un mondo diverso è possibile .

For many years Maselli was chairman of the “Associazione Nazionale degli Autori Cinematografici” and one of the founders of the “Alleanza Mondiale del Cinema”.

Filmography (selection)

• 1950: Chronicle of a love (Cronaca di un amore) (only screenplay)
• 1952: The big role (La signora senza camelie) (only screenplay)
• 1953: Love in the City (L'amore in città) (one episode)
• 1955: The Lost One (Gli sbandati)
• 1956: The woman of the day (La donna del giorno)
• 1960: Dangerous Nights (I delfini)
• 1961: The Italian Woman and Love (Le italiane e l'amore) (one episode)
• 1963: The indifferent (Gli indifferenti)
• 1966: Make me cold, I'm freezing (Fai in fretta ad uccidermi ... ho freddo!)
• 1968: A fine couple (Ruba al prossimo tuo ...)
• 1969: Open letter to an evening newspaper (Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera)
• 1986: The Story of a Love (Storia d'amore)
• 1996: Cronache del terzo millennio
• 1999: Il compagno
• 2002: Lettere dalla Palestina (co-director, documentary)
• 2003: Firenze, il nostro domani
• 2005: Frammenti di Novecento (documentary film)
• 2007: Civico zero
• 2009: Le ombre rosse
• 2011: Scossa

Web links

• Francesco Maselli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography and appreciation by Italica Rai (Italian)
• Maselli at cinematografo.it (Italian)
• Maselli at mymovies.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 274
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ http://www.anac-autori.it/online/?page_id=34