Paolo Brunatto

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Paolo Brunatto (born July 26, 1935 in Paris , † September 16, 2010 in Morolo , Viterbo province ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Brunatto attended the Faculty of Architecture in Geneva and from 1960 worked primarily for Italian television as a documentarist and writer for current affairs. His first documentary , Appunti sull'emigrazione , won a prize at the Moscow Film Festival . He also dedicated himself to experimental fiction and was represented with Vieni, dolce morte at the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Nuovo . He has made some remarkable biographical documentaries and films about the Far East for television . It was there that film diaries were made for Bernardo Bertolucci's films The Last Emperor and Little Buddha, shot in Asia .

Brunatto professed Buddhism ; his oeuvre includes over 600 works.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1960: Appunti sull'emigrazione (documentary film)
  • 1965: Insomma
  • 1967: Vieni, dolce morte
  • 2001: Memorie incrociate - Incontro con John Giorno (documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 76
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unita.it
  3. ↑ http://www.duellanti.com/2010/09/morto-il-documentarista-paolo-brunatto/
personal data
SURNAME Brunatto, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 2010
Place of death Morolo , Viterbo Province