Giuseppe Tornatore

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Giuseppe Tornatore (1990)

Giuseppe Tornatore (born May 27, 1956 in Bagheria , Sicily ) is an Italian film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Giuseppe Tornatore grew up in Bagheria with his brother Francesco Tornatore , who later also became a film producer. When he was around ten years old, he was a member of a theater group at his school and directed the performance of plays by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo . As a teenager he worked as a freelance photographer and with the first money he earned he bought a Super 8 film camera, a film projector and equipment for film editing.

After graduating from high school Francesco Scaduto in his hometown, he made his first documentaries. The subjects were mostly themes from his homeland, Sicily. His documentary Minoranze etniche in Sicilia (Ethnic Minorities in Sicily) won his first prize at the Salerno film festival . In the early 1980s he went to Rome . There he was immediately successful with his first feature film, Il camorrista (1986), which is based on the life of the Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo .

In 1993 Giuseppe Tornatore was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

Director
  • 1986: The Professor (Il camorrista)
  • 1990: Everyone is fine (Stanno tutti bene)
  • 1994: A pure formality (Una pura formalità)
Direction and script
script
production
  • 1997: Il figlio di Bakunin
  • 2000: Il manoscritto del Principe
  • 2006: La sconosciuta

Awards (selection)

His second feature film, Cinema Paradiso , won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film . Tornatore has also won the Nastro d'Argento several times for his films . Other awards:

Baarìa

In 2009 Tornatore opened the 66th Venice Film Festival with his film Baarìa - La porta del vento . The comedy with Monica Bellucci , Raoul Bova and Ángela Molina , named after his hometown Bagheria, follows the life of three generations in Sicily.

In one scene of the film, Tornatore had a domestic cattle stabbed with an awl and bleed to death in front of the camera. The scene was filmed in Tunisia to circumvent the Italian animal welfare law or criminal law. The killing of the animal initially provoked violent protests. Personalities from culture and politics therefore distanced themselves from this film.

Web links

bibliography

  • Giuseppe Tornatore. Uno sguardo dal set. a cura di Ninni Panzera, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2007
  • L'isola di Tornatore. a cura di Ninni Panzera, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2010
  • Le Madonie, cinema ad old quote. di Sebastiano Gesù e Elena Russo, con introduzione di Francesco Novara e presentazione di Pasquale Scimeca, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1995 (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso e L'Uomo delle Stelle)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Westphal, Anke: Venice Film Festival opens with “Baarìa” by Tornatore. In: Berliner Zeitung , June 11, 2009, issue 133, p. 29
  2. "Bovino sgozzato sul set di" Baaria "" , Corriere della Sera , September 24, 2009