Pier Giuseppe Murgia

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Pier Giuseppe Murgia (born December 6, 1940 in Sterzing , South Tyrol ) is an Italian writer , screenwriter and film director .

Pier Giuseppe Murgia while filming the film La festa perduta

Life

Murgia made his debut novel early: Il ragazzo di fuoco appeared in 1960 . In the following years he wrote - after a meeting with Cesare Zavattini - some scripts with youth issues for the cinema as well as for the screen, including the 1974 incurred unusual Vermisàt , the Mario Brenta staged. Murgia caused a (mostly negative) sensation with his directorial debut Play We Love , for which he was accused of child pornography . In 1981 he dedicated his second and last own film, La festa perduta, to another controversial topic, terrorism. For this film he won the best new director award at the San Sebastián Film Festival . From the following year Murgia worked exclusively for television. His films were far more conventional, but they were also successful with audiences. Examples are Voglia di volare or Una vittoria . Voglia di volare , a four-part series about a separated couple, played by Gianni Morandi and the French Claude Jade , who find each other again through their daughter, was also shown on German television as Wie im Flug . In addition, numerous documentations were created. From 1991 to 2009 he was on Raitre (Rai 3) for the search program Chi l'ha visto? responsible.

As an author, Murgia published two other novels and three volumes of short stories.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1977: Let's Play Love (Maladolescenza)
  • 1981: La festa perduta
  • 1984: As if in flight (Voglia di volare)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Il ragazzo di fuoco
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome 2002, pp. 301/302
  3. ↑ "Raitre: C'era una volta (10)"
  4. ^ Eckhard Römer: Italian media language. 2009, p. 327
personal data
SURNAME Murgia, Pier Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterzing