Massimo Gaudioso

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Massimo Gaudioso (born February 18, 1958 in Naples ) is an Italian film director .

Life

Gaudioso graduated from the University of Naples with a degree in economics and then studied scriptwriting and directing with Ugo Pirro and Nikita Michalkow . He then shot numerous advertising and industrial films as well as commissioned works for television before he made his debut as a cinema director in 1997 - together with Fabio Nunziata and Eugenio Cappuccio - with the strongly autobiographical Il caricatore (he was a short film for two years at the age of 16). mm format rotated and awarded); This team also did the script and portrayal. Two years later, La vita è una sola followed. In the new millennium, Gaudioso was primarily active as a screenwriter . For L'imbalsamatore , which he wrote with Matteo Garrone and Ugo Chiti , Gaudioso received a David di Donatello . Gomorrah from 2008 has received several awards.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1997: Il caricatore
  • 1999: La vita è una sola
  • 2003: Body of Love (Primo amore)
  • 2008: Gomorrah - Journey into the realm of the Camorra (Gomorrah)
  • 2010: Welcome to the South (Benvenuti al Sud)
  • 2018: Dogman (script only)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 199
  2. Massimo Gaudioso ( Memento of May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )