Marco Mattolini

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Marco Mattolini (born December 15, 1950 in Florence ) is an Italian director.

Life

Mattolini began working in local theater groups in his native city between 1969 and 1974 and worked as a cultural agent for the social agency ARCI from 1972 to 1977. He obtained his university degree in education in 1977 and worked for two years in the cinema initiative "Lunga Gittata", with which he also produced a television series of plays written for the theater. He made his debut in 1980 with The Kiss of the Spider Woman as a theater director and then worked for two years in various organizational functions for a film cooperative. This was followed by numerous productions - over fifty to date - covering the spectrum from musicals to contemporary Italian premieres, including Die Schule der Frauen , Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Drop on Hot Stones , Hyrlybyrly by David Rabe , Fabio Maraschi's Gli alibi del cuore or Wir two by Michael Frayn . His first feature film, Il mistero del Marco from 1984, was an Italian representative at numerous film festivals, including Venice , but rarely saw the cinema halls.

Mattolini has worked several times as a director for television, for example the situation comedy Zanzibar , which he directed in 1988 with Silvio Orlando and Claudio Bisio and Angela Finocchiaro ; the talk show Ars Amanda the following year and a few more, including a satirical broadcast about the 1990 World Cup that took place in Italy. He also appeared as a writer of television games and sitcoms . He continued his theater work at the “Teatro Parioli” and the Teatro Eliseo in Rome, but in the 1990s he primarily consolidated his reputation as a sitcom inventor and director. In 2002 he shot for the cinema again. Per finta e per amore the great success was denied. In 2005 the television series Carabinieri 5 followed , theater work for festivals and in the following years a collaboration with Christian De Sica for a musical and other television works.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1984: Il mistero di Marco
  • 2002: Per finta e per amore

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 281
  2. ↑ http://www.dibertiec.com/detailRS.asp?id=26
personal data
SURNAME Mattolini, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian director
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence