Renato Cialente
Renato Cialente (born February 2, 1897 in Treviglio , † November 25, 1943 in Rome ) was an Italian actor .
Life
Cialente began acting at the age of fifteen when he was performing with his high school acting group. As a student of Ermete Zacconi , he made his debut in the mid-1910s with the “Teatro Argentina” in the Italian capital. In 1921, after a break due to the war, he played in the ensemble of Annibale Beltrone , within which he rose three years later to become a youthful hero. In the same year, 1924, he joined the troupe around the Russian star Tatiana Pawlowa as a partner , with whom he was able to establish Stanislavski's drama school in Italy. For ten years he played classic and contemporary pieces, especially Luigi Pirandello and especially Dostoevsky ; tours in Italy and South America were also undertaken.
An encounter with Elsa Merlini in 1934 led not only to a personal but also to an artistic community in their own theater group, which, in addition to classics, also had sentimental comedies in its repertoire - new and artistically unsatisfactory for Cialente. In 1938 a new phase of his artistic work followed; with Andreina Pagnani there were celebrated performances of Die Reise ( Henri Bernstein ), I figli ( Renata Mughini ), L'orchidea ( Sem Benelli ) and Mulini a vento ( Edoardo Anton ). In the following two years Cialente played in further great successes, above all our little town 1940. In 1943 he formed the last company, in which several important actors were gathered (among others Sandro Ruffini , Tina Lattanzi and Aldo Silvani ) and an ambitious program with pieces by Maxim Gorki and William Shakespeare .
Cialente became "due to precise training and preparation and appropriate, never exaggerated representation, a role model for his generation of contemporary modern and sensitive acting".
Since 1920, Cialente was rarely involved in film, but more intensively from 1938; as a supporting actor of mostly unemotional and correct characters, he was rarely cast according to his abilities.
Cialente died when a car of a German motorcade hit him while leaving the theater after a performance (Gorkis Nachtasyl ) and fatally injured him.
A street in Rome is named after the actor.
Filmography
- 1920: Cenerentola
- 1933: paprika
- 1939: Mille Lire al mese
- 1941: Piccolo mondo antico
- 1942: Maria Malibran
- 1942: A pistol shot (Un colpo da pistola)
- 1943: Addio, amore!
Web links
- Renato Cialente in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography of Cialentes at the Enciclopedia Treccani
- ^ Enrico Lancia, article Renato Cialente , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998. p. 126
- ↑ [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cialente, Renato |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Treviglio |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1943 |
| Place of death | Rome |