Giuseppe Ferrara
Giuseppe Ferrara (born July 15, 1932 in Castelfiorentino , † June 25, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian film critic , documentary filmmaker , film director and screenwriter .
Life
Ferrara was enthusiastic about film from an early age, founded a film club and wrote his thesis at the University of Florence in 1957 on the "Nuovo Cinema Italiano". After moving to Rome , he completed the directing course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1959. In the years that followed, he not only produced popular documentaries dealing with political issues and current sociological problems, but also two books about the films Luchino Visconti and Francesco Rosi . From 1970 to 1976 a drama encyclopedia followed in 80 deliveries. He also wrote for numerous film periodicals and was a member of the Association of Film Critics.
In addition to his films for Italian, he also worked for Bulgarian and Cuban television until he began a new chapter in his work in 1970 - Ferrara was now directing feature films. In these, too, he pursued his sociological topics of politics, mafia, terrorism and drugs. Milestones of this kind of cinema emerged with Cento giorni a Palermo , Il caso Moro and Giovanni Falcone .
To finance his films as independently as possible, Ferrara founded the Cine 2000 cooperative in 1969 .
Ferrara has won the Italian Nastro d'Argento film award twice: in 1961 for the best experimental short film and in 1974 for the best short film.
Filmography (selection)
- 1970: Il sasso in bocca (& screenplay, editor)
- 1983: The 100 days of Palermo (I cento giorni a Palermo)
- 1986: The Aldo Moro Affair (Il caso Moro)
- 1993: Giovanni Falcone - In the Mafia Network (Giovanni Falcone)
- 2011: Roma nuda
Web links
- Giuseppe Ferrara in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ferrara at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ È morto Giuseppe Ferrara, regista dei film Caso Moro e Banchieri di Dio
- ↑ Biography at Raiuno ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, pp. 172/173
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferrara, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film critic, documentary filmmaker and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castelfiorentino |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 2016 |
| Place of death | Rome |