Massimo Sarchielli

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Massimo Sarchielli (born April 9, 1931 in Florence , † May 11, 2010 in Rome ) was an Italian film actor , film director and artist .

Life

Sarchielli grew up in poverty as a child. Since his father did not want to join the fascist party Benito Mussolini , the former got by with odd jobs. His mother was a seamstress by trade and made a significant contribution to supporting the family. Even Massimo had to help in the tailoring as a child or work as a laborer in a metal factory as a teenager. As a young man, Sarchielli studied architecture at a technical school in Florence and then briefly worked for the Istituto Geografico Militare , the military-geographic institute that made maps for a village in Basilicata . Admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence failed. He then opened a leather goods store with a friend in order to respond to the emerging US tourism. Sarchielli took his first steps as an actor when he was a mime artist.

He moved to New York City for a period of four years , where he studied acting at the well-known Etienne Decroux . After a stopover in Paris , Sarchielli returned to Florence, where he demonstrated his skills at various theaters. In Milan he graduated from the drama school founded by Giorgio Strehler and made his debut as an actor in the comedy Le majordome in 1965, at the age of 34 . In addition to some less successful spaghetti westerns , such as 10,000 Dollari per un massacro , which was produced in 1967, he was also in front of the camera in film classics such as Julia and the Ghosts of Federico Fellini in 1965 . History and Bible films such as King David, who was shot in 1985, or The Bible - Paul , which was produced in 2000, are also part of his program. In 1975 he was the first and so far last director behind the camera for the experimental film Anna .

In New York, Sarchielli met an American named Giudy, whom he married in 1962. With her he had a son. When he tried to bring jewelry illegally from the States to Italy, he was expelled from the United States and banned from entry for five years. Although his wife accompanied him to Europe , she was later forced to return to the USA due to her mother's illness . The long-distance relationship was not going well; there was a divorce. At the end of the 1970s, Sarchielli met the singer Dodi Moscati . The two lived together for around two decades. Moscati died in February 1998.

Sarchielli lived in Rome until his death in 2010.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Addio a Massimo Sarchielli. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012 ; Retrieved October 4, 2018 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Sarchielli, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2010
Place of death Rome