Gianni Amelio

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Gianni Amelio (born January 20, 1945 in San Pietro di Magisano , Province of Catanzaro ) is an Italian film director .

Life

After studying philosophy, Amelio came to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) in the second half of the 1960s and initially worked as an assistant director , often for Gianni Puccini . In 1967 he made his first feature film and in the following years earned a good reputation both in the cinema and with his television work. In the early 1990s, three of his films were recognized as best film at the European Film Awards. He holds the record to this day. He was also successful at the respective film festivals in Cannes and Venice . In 2008 Amelio took over the management of the Torino Film Festival from his compatriot Nanni Moretti .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1975: The Bertolucci cinema (Bertolucci secondo il cinema)
  • 1979: Little Archimedes (Il piccolo Archimede)
  • 1983: Hit in the heart (Colpire al cuore)
  • 1988: Enrico Fermi - Under the spell of the atom (I ragazzi di via Panisperna)
  • 1990: Open Doors (Porte aperte) (Best Italian Film 1991)
  • 1992: Stolen Children (Il ladro di bambini) (Best Italian Film 1993)
  • 1994: Lamerica (Best Italian Film 1995)
  • 1998: So we laughed (Così ridevano) ( Golden Lion in Venice)
  • 2004: The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa) (Best Italian Film 2005)
  • 2006: The Missing Star (La stella che non c'è)
  • 2013: L'intrepido

literature

  • Raccontare i sentimenti. Il Cinema di Gianni Amelio , a cura di Sebastiano Gesù, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 2008 ISBN 978-88-7751-274-1
  • Gianni Amelio: atti della Giornata di Studi su Gianni Amelio in occasione della laurea "Honoris Causa" in DAMS, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia (Arcavacata di Rende, 28 maggio 1996) / Università degli Studi della Calabria. A cura di Roberto De Gaetano. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 1997.
  • Gianni Amelio - un posto al cinema / a cura di Domenico Scalzo. Torino: Lindau, 2001.
  • Daniel Winkler: Quando is nato non puoi più nasconderti… Gianni Amelio, Marco Tullio Giordana and the nuovo cinema di migrazione. In: Dagmar Schmelzer u. a., acting and negotiating. Contributions to the XXII. Forum for young Romance studies. Bonn, Romanistischer Verlag, pp. 239-257.
  • Daniel Winkler: Questioni meridionali, questioni europee? Ethnic and cultural alterity in contemporary Italian cinema. With an excursus on Gianni Amelios Lamerica, in: Quo vadis Romania? Journal for a Current Romance Studies 33. 39–52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Turin Film Festival: Gianni Amelio becomes new director at derstandard.at, December 10, 2008 (accessed December 11, 2008)

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personal data
SURNAME Amelio, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH San Pietro di Magisano