Nelo Risi

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Nelo Risi (born April 21, 1920 in Milan , † September 17, 2015 in Rome ) was an Italian documentary filmmaker , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Like his brother Dino , Risi graduated in medicine and, after serving in the war on the Russian front and interned in Switzerland, from 1941 onwards he devoted himself to poetry (especially with the volume “Le opere ei giorni”). As a member of the so-called Linea Lombarda (to which Roberto Rebora , Vittorio Sereni and Renzo Modesti also belonged), he published a number of works such as “Il contromemorale”, “Minime massime”, “Amica mia nemica” or “Il mondo in una mano ". After the end of the war, Risi lived in Paris for some time.

From 1949 on, Risi also worked for the film; as a documentarist, he has been responsible for numerous films - living in Italy again since 1954 - which mostly dealt with social, historical and artistic topics ( Il delitto Matteotti 1956, I fratelli Rosselli 1959, La Firenze di Pratolini 1963). He made his first feature film in 1961 when he contributed the episode "Ragazze madri" to the episode film The Italian Woman and Love . From then on, especially until the mid-1970s, he commuted between television and film and was responsible for a manageable number of often ambitious stories in historical environment like the settled during the Second World War andremo in città , which for a book his wife Edith Bruck wrote as well as the multi-award-winning psychoanalytic schizophrenia drama Diario di una schizofrenica . Here, too, the script came from Risi himself, who occasionally supplied it to other directors.

For the theater he was the author of “Lo studente di lingue ovvero punto finale a un pianeta infernale”.

In 2006 Risi was awarded the “Premio Dino Campana”.

Filmography (selection)

Direction and script
  • 1961: The Italian Woman and Love (Le italiane e l'amore) (one episode)
  • 1965: We're going to town (Andremo in città)
  • 1968: Diario di una schizofrenica
  • 1969: Ondata di calore
  • 1971: Una stagione all'inferno
  • 1972: La colonna infame
  • 1988: Heaven is Far (Un amore di donna)
script
  • 1963: The Corsican son (Juasqu'au boût du monde)
  • 1969: Flashback
documentary

Publications (selection)

  • 1948: L'esperienza
  • 1956: Polso teso
  • 1961: Pensieri elementari
  • 1965: Dentro la sostanza
  • 1970: Di certe cose che dette in versi suonano meglio in prosa
  • 1976: Maica mia nemica
  • 1983: I frabricanti del "bello"
  • 1991: Mutazioni
  • 1994: Ilmondo in una mano

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nelo Risi at the Encyclopedia Treccani