Marco Ferreri

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Marco Ferreri in Cannes 1991

Marco Ferreri (born May 11, 1928 in Milan , † May 9, 1997 in Paris ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . Ferreri became known to a wider audience in 1973 primarily through the satire The Big Feast . With many of his films such as For example, with La carne (The Meat), in which a man eats his beloved, Ferreri deliberately provoked his audience.

Life

Ferreri initially earned his living as a liquor salesman and worked for an advertising agency. At the end of the 1940s, he gained his first experience in the film business by shooting commercials with Sergio Spina . After moving to Rome, together with Ricardo Ghione , he devoted himself to the production of Documento mensile , a newsreel that was intended to be a forum for well-known directors and writers. However, the film journal had to close again after the second edition.

In 1952 Marco Ferreri worked for the first time as production manager for Alberto Lattuada's feature film The Coat . In the following years he received further assignments for projects by Cesare Zavattini and Ricardo Ghione, in which he also appeared as an actor. In 1956 Ferreri went to Spain, where he met the novelist and humorist Rafael Azcona , with whom he began a long-term collaboration. Their first joint work was the satirical-grotesque feature film debut El pisito (The Little Apartment) , which appeared in 1958 . Two more films produced, realized and awarded several awards in Spain, also sarcastic and ironic, followed before Ferreri returned to his home country.

As shown in Ferreri's first films, he likes to provoke his audience through his self-destructive, grotesque and pessimistic views. After an episode in Cesare Zavattini's film Le italiane e l'amore (The Women Accuse), he shot the anti-conformist, often controversially discussed and received films The Queen Bee , La donna scimmia and Marcia nuziale . In these films he played through radical relationships between men and women, which finally earned Marco Ferreri the reputation of a provocateur and shocker.

His subsequent films also caused some scandal. Consistent themes in his works were pessimistic views of the confrontation of individual fates with social norms, which he sometimes analyzed in extreme form and transformed into bitterly angry films about the human condition. But not only its topics, but also the way it was staged amazed the audience. His scandalous film Das große Fressen (1973) was also a resounding global success, even if the critics in Cannes were speechless. After that, he was no longer able to repeat such a success.

Many of his later films were recorded as strenuous exercises in grotesques and polemical provocation. Ferreri is known as an unclassifiable and brilliant filmmaker. But Ferreri also revealed himself in his films as a sensitive sensualist and contemporary with fearless curiosity, which was often overlooked in the general rating.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1959: The little apartment (El pisito)
  • 1959: Los chicos
  • 1960: the wheelchair (El cochecito)
  • 1961: The Italian and Love (Le Italiane e l'amore) (one episode)
  • 1963: The Queen Bee (Una storia moderna - l'ape regina)
  • 1964: The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia)
  • 1965: Break-Up (L'uomo dei cinque palloni)
  • 1967: L'harem
  • 1969: Dillinger is dead (Dillinger è morto)
  • 1969: Il seme dell'uomo
  • 1971: The Audience (L'udienza)
  • 1972: Alone with Giorgio (Liza)
  • 1973: The big feast (La grande bouffe)
  • 1974: Don't touch the white woman (Touche pas à la femme blanche)
  • 1976: The Last Woman (L'ultima donna)
  • 1978: Monkey Dream (Ciao maschio)
  • 1979: My asylum (Chiedo asilo)
  • 1981: Quite normal crazy (Storie di ordinaria follia)
  • 1982: The story of Piera (Storia di Piera)
  • 1984: The future is called a woman (Il futuro è donna)
  • 1986: I Love You (I love you)
  • 1988: House of Delights (La casa del sorriso)
  • 1991: Carne - Meat (La carne)
  • 1993: Diario di un vizio
  • 1996: Nitrate Base (Nitrato d'argento)

Awards

literature

  • Marisa Buovolo: [Article] Marco Ferreri. In: Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Film directors. Biographies, descriptions of works, filmographies. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2008 [1. Ed. 1999], ISBN 978-3-15-010662-4 , pp. 242-245.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 174.
  2. ↑ Short biography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at raiuno@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.italica.rai.it  
  3. ↑ Cf. Marco Ferreri in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Ferreri, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1997
Place of death Paris , France