Francesco Ranieri Martinotti

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Francesco Ranieri Martinotti (born March 10, 1959 in Rome ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Ranieri Martinotti graduated with a law degree and started filming with an excellent screenplay that he had actually written for a television production, Singolo , in 1989. He directed himself and also gave sequences for his contributions to I taràsacchi the following year from the life of a drug addict, staged an impressive debut as a promising talent. In 1993 he made the difficult attempt to transfer the mood and staff from classic film noir works to the wasteland of Emilia-Romagna (to Misano Adriatico and Riccione ). Abissinia was awarded the David di Donatello for best first director. Another David, this time for Best Producer, followed in 1997 for Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo, written and funded by Ranieri Martinotti .

In 1999 a film adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel , Branchie, was due . The collaboration with producer Mauro Bernardi led to collaboration on the collective documentary Un altro mondo è possibile in 2001 and later at Genova. Per noi . It wasn't until 2006 that Ranieri Martinotti made another feature film: Ti lascio perché ti amo troppo was made in Naples . The extraordinary pictures by cameraman Alessandro Siani were also noteworthy in 2009 at La seconda volta non si scorda mai , in which Elisabetta Canalis played the leading female role.

Since then, Ranieri Martinotti has taken care of festivals (like the France Odeon he founded) and the Giornate degli autori in Venice . He belonged to the European Film Academy and edited an interview book in which Mario Monicelli provides information about his rich work and life. Two other documentaries were made in 2012 and 2015.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1989: Singolo
  • 1990: I taràsacchi (co-director)
  • 1993: Abissinia
  • 1999: Branchie
  • 2006: Ti lascio perché ti amo troppo
  • 2009: La seconda volta non si scorda mai
  • 2015: Il segreto di Otello (documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Rome, Gremese Editore 2002, p. 355
  2. ↑ Francesco Ranieri Martinotti on cinemaitaliano.info. Website cinemaitaliano.info. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Ranieri Martinotti, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome