Nanni Moretti

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Nanni Moretti at the screening of his film Habemus Papam at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

Nanni Moretti (born August 19, 1953 in Bruneck , South Tyrol ) is an Italian film director , film producer and actor .

Life

Nanni Moretti was born in Bruneck (Brunico) in South Tyrol when his parents were on vacation there; his father is the ancient historian Luigi Moretti . The literary scholar Franco Moretti is his brother. He spent his youth in Rome , where he also developed his great passions: politics, water polo and cinema . Moretti is married to Silvia Nono, granddaughter of Arnold Schönberg and daughter of Luigi Nono .

After attending high school, Moretti enrolled in 1973 for the "DAMS" (danza, arte, musica e spettacolo) course at the University of Bologna . In the same year he shot his first short films in Rome with his first Super 8 camera , which he could afford by selling his stamp collection, in which he appeared with friends. He worked on a screenplay for the director duo Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani and played a small role in the film Padre Padrone - My Father, My Lord (1977). His first feature film (shot on Super 8), Ich bin ein Autarkist , was made in 1976 and was shown at various film festivals in 1978 (including Berlin as “Ich bin ein Autarkist”). This was followed by the equally self-deprecating comedy Ecce Bombo (The Idlers; 1978), filmed on 16 mm , which was a great surprise success and was shown at the Cannes Film Festival . The film is about a group of young intellectuals in Rome who lack a real goal in life. What is striking in this and the following films are the imaginative, often absurd dialogues, open social criticism and the deliberate turning away from various Italian and foreign popular film conventions and clichés. Moretti played the leading role in his films until 2001, to which he occasionally ironically exaggerated certain of his own character traits. He writes scripts alone or in collaboration with colleagues. A trademark of his films until 2001 was also the sensitive, but by no means sentimental, music by Nicola Piovani .

Since Moretti had already become a star with Ecce Bombo in Italy, he was able to take his time with his next film, for which money was now also available for sets. And he consciously decided on the difficult film Golden Dreams (1981), which did not build on its predecessor and barely promised commercial success. Instead, the film received the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival . The third feature film, Bianca (1984), showed a more mature Moretti in the role of a young teacher who falls in love with a colleague and is suspected of murder. This was also a comedy, but the plot contained a more recognizable plot and a surprising ending than its predecessor. The film Die Messe ist aus (1985) was Moretti's first drama in which he put the exaggeration of his comedies at the service of a fundamentally serious plot. Moretti appears as a young priest who has to learn very painfully that his task in a changed society is a great challenge. The focus is on conflicts with old friends of the 1968 movement and family members. The film received the Silver Bear at the 1986 Berlinale .

Moretti places himself politically on the left and is critical of society from this point of view; however, he was seldom satisfied with the politics of the left-wing parties. In Water Polo and Communism (1989) Moretti embodied an amnesia and confused politician with a socialist conviction, whom the past caught up with in the form of various guest characters while he was participating in a water polo tournament. In contrast to his earlier films, Moretti shot mostly in Sicily , where the necessary outdoor pool scenery had been set up. For La cosa (1990), Moretti filmed political debates for the Italian Communist Party , which sought a new direction after the fall of the Berlin Wall . The jumble of voices and heads went uncommented. In 1991 he opened a arthouse cinema in Rome, which has survived to this day. Meanwhile, Moretti also produced films by young directors and occasionally took roles in their films. His next own film, released in 1994, entitled Dear Diary… (1993), was an international success. It is made up of three episodes, all of which have an autobiographical touch, of which the third, recreated as precisely as possible, documents Moretti's experiences with doctors, of whom he has visited various due to a disease. For this he won the 1994 Cannes Film Festival award for best director .

In the film Aprile (1998), reminiscent of its predecessor, Moretti documents the joys of fatherhood and reports semi-fictionally about his efforts to make a documentary about the political situation and the media in Italy. Something of this kind was released in 1994 under the title L'unico paese al mondo - an episode film by several directors co-organized by Moretti, which contained his first cinematic note by Silvio Berlusconi . Aprile reiterated Berlusconi's election, which was lost in 1996, and celebrated the left's preliminary victory. With the in Ancona resulting family drama The room my son won Moretti at the 2001 Film Festival in Cannes , the Palme d'Or . In this long-planned project, which Moretti had postponed because of the birth of his child, it was - openly and courageously told - about how a healthy petty-bourgeois family dealt with the inexplicable accidental death of their son. Moretti played here the father who worked as a psychoanalyst. In contrast to the earlier films, this one was free from exaggeration, jokes and playing with the autobiography.

In 2001 Moretti was one of the organizers of the “Girotondo” citizens' meetings against Berlusconi. From 2003 he became increasingly politically active, speaking out against Berlusconi's approach as expected and calling on the left-wing parties to work out a viable alternative program and to get the population behind them. Moretti was an indispensable part of the Italian television news at this time. The short film The Last Customer was made during a press trip in New York .

Moretti in December 2007

At the end of March 2006, two weeks before the parliamentary elections, the film The Italian was released in Italian cinemas, in which, in collaboration with other authors, he critically dealt with the Italian present shaped by Berlusconi. The main role played Silvio Orlando , one of his regular actors. The film, which was also on the program in Cannes, received several David di Donatello in Italy , a. a. as the best film and for the best director. In 2007, after some back and forth, Moretti officiated as curator of the Turin Film Festival and, like many directors, sent a short film to Cannes on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the festival. In February 2008, Silent Chaos was presented at the Berlinale . Moretti played the leading role in this adaptation of the novel , directed by Antonello Grimaldi , on whose screenplay he participated.

During the elections in Italy in spring 2008, Moretti tried in vain to remind the public that Berlusconi controlled several television channels and did not respect state institutions. He called on the many left-wing abstinent voters to go to the polls. He thought Berlusconi's clear victory was very Italian and tragic. In the same year Moretti gave up his post as director of the Turin Film Festival to devote himself to new film projects.

From March 2010 he shot the film Habemus Papam in Rome, which was completed in 2011. The film focuses on the relationship between a newly elected Pope (played by Michel Piccoli ) and his psychoanalyst (Moretti). Habemus Papam brought Moretti his sixth invitation to the competition at the Cannes Film Festival . At the 65th Cannes Festival , which opened on May 16, 2012, the 58-year-old headed the competition jury.

So far in Germany, The Room of My Son, The Italian, Silent Chaos and Habemus Papam - Ein Pope büxt aus have been released on DVD.

Nanni Moretti also runs his own production company Sacher Film in Rome and a cinema, the Nouvo Sacher in Trastevere .

Filmography

Moretti 2001 at the Cannes Film Festival

Director, screenplay and production as well as actor

  • 1973: La sconfitta - short film
  • 1973: Pâté de bourgeois
  • 1974: Come parli frate? - short film
  • 1976: I am an autarkist (Io sono un autarchico)
  • 1978: The idlers (Ecce Bombo)
  • 1981: Golden Dreams (Sogni d'oro)
  • 1984: Bianca
  • 1985: The fair is over (La Messa è finita)
  • 1989: Water polo and communism (Palombella rossa)
  • 1990: La Cosa - documentary
  • 1993: Dear Diary ... (Caro diario)
  • 1994: L'unico paese al mondo - episode
  • 1996: On the day of the premiere of Close Up (Il giorno della prima di Close-Up) - short film
  • 1998: April
  • 2001: My Son's Room (La stanza del figlio)
  • 2002: The Last Customer - short film
  • 2003: Il grido d'angoscia dell'uccello predatore: Tagli d'Aprile - short film
  • 2006: The Italian (Il Caimano)
  • 2006: Il diario del Caimano - documentary film
  • 2007: Diario di uno spettatore - short film
  • 2011: Habemus Papam - A Pope büxt (Habemus Papam)
  • 2015: Mia madre
  • 2018: Santiago, Italia - documentary

actors only

script only

literature

  • Charlotte Lorber: The films by Nanni Moretti: Experience and staging of spatiality and temporality . Schüren Verlag, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Turin Film Festival: Gianni Amelio becomes new director. Der Standard , December 10, 2008 (accessed December 11, 2008)
  2. ↑ Nanni Moretti heads the jury in Cannes. Courier , January 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ Moretti: «La sacher? Meglio il profitterol E benedico il ritorno di Zeman. " Il Messaggero , July 13, 2012.
  4. ↑ Cinema Nouvo Sacher on Sacherfilm.eu (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Moretti, Nanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian director, producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruneck , South Tyrol, Italy