Mario Orfini

Mario Orfini (* 1936 in Lanciano ) is an Italian film producer and director .

Life

Orfini began his professional career after moving to Milan as a freelance photo reporter for numerous magazines and also dedicated himself to stage photography at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. In Rome since 1969, he then worked for television and produced his first feature film in 1973. After his first own film for the big screen in 1978 - he had already directed a television film in 1972 -, Noccioline a colazione , in which he also played, he intensified his production activities from 1980 and enabled a number of artistically demanding works by Emidio Greco , Roberto Faenza and Fabio Carpi . Orfini had great success in 1984 with Luciano De Crescenzos Also sprach Bellavista . With the thriller Mamba in 1988 he dared an ultimately disappointing foray into American commercial cinema, for which he worked with numerous well-known names (that's how Giorgio Moroder wrote the music). After a big flop with the Adriano Celentano vehicle jackpot in 1992, Orfini did not return to the director's chair until six years later when he performed a melodrama with L'anniversario . In 2001 he retired into private life.

Filmography (selection)

production

• 1980: Tele Vaticano - The Eye of the Pope (Il pap'occhio)
• 1984: So Spoke Bellavista (Così parlò Bellavista)
• 1990: The bath doctor (Mio caro dottor Gräsler)

Director, screenplay

• 1988: Mamba

Web links

• Mario Orfini in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome 2002, p. 314