Salvatore Samperi

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Salvatore Samperi (born July 26, 1944 in Padua , † March 4, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

life and career

Salvatore Samperi came from a middle-class family and for some time studied law at the University of Padua, as his family wanted . However, at the age of 19 he broke off his studies, moved to Rome and gained his first experience shooting industrial films. He was a friend and admirer of director Marco Bellocchio , five years his senior , who also helped him fund his debut film Thank You, Aunt . With thanks, aunt! he was in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1968 , which was canceled without a winner because of the student unrest in Paris . Samperi himself sympathized with the 1968 movement , which is reflected in many of his films (in which he was mostly also a screenwriter) in satirical tips against the bourgeoisie and traditional family structures.

Samperi's dramatic-comic films often revolved around love passions and longings that confront their protagonists with the narrowness of society - for example in his films with which he was represented at the Berlinale : in the 1973 competition with Malizia and 1979 with Ernesto . Probably Samperi's best-known film, Malizia , is about a maid played by Laura Antonelli , to whom the widower and two of his sons make advances in her new household. Antonelli became a star and sex symbol through this role . Ernesto is the film adaptation of a novel by Umberto Saba and is about the bisexual love experiences of a 17-year-old, among others with an older stable worker. In 1974 he also directed the comedy Der Filou with Antonelli and Alessandro Momo as lovers with an age difference and in 1976 the drama Scandal , in which Lisa Gastoni's character of a pharmacist enters into a dependent love affair with her employee ( Franco Nero ). Samperi's 1984 film Hunger for Tenderness with Monica Guerritore addresses an incestuous sibling relationship.

Occasionally, in some cases for financial reasons, Samperi also shot a number of lighter comedies. Probably the most noteworthy of these is the film satire Sturmtruppen from 1976 and its sequel from 1982. Both films are based on the comic strip series The Sturmtruppen about simple-minded Nazis, which is famous in Italy . Samperi made an excursion into the Giallo film genre in 1970 with Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo , for whom Ennio Morricone wrote the film music.

In the film review, Samperi was certified as having great talent, but also for not having really exhausted this with every film. After 1986 his output was irregular, his Malizia sequel Malizia 2mila was torn in 1991 by critics. He retired from the film business in the provinces for over ten years before coming back in 2004 with some television work. By directing the television series L'onore e il rispetto , he gained attention again in 2006, the six-part family saga set in the 1950s was well received by critics. There was speculation that Samperi would make a comeback as a cinema director, but this never came about due to his death in March 2009 at the age of 64.

Filmography

  • 1968: Partner (Director: Bernardo Bertolucci ; actors only)
  • 1968: Thank you, aunt (Grazie zia) - also script
  • 1969: Cuore di mamma - also screenplay
  • 1970: Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo
  • 1971: A fishing trip for 300 million (Un'anguilla da 300 milioni) - also script
  • 1972: Beati i ricchi - also screenplay
  • 1973: Malizia - also screenplay
  • 1974: The Filou (Peccato veniale) - also screenplay
  • 1974: La sbandata - screenplay, production and co-direction with Alfredo Malffati
  • 1976: Stormtroopers
  • 1976: Scandal (Scandalo) - also screenplay
  • 1977: Nenè - The early maturity (Nenè) - also screenplay
  • 1979: Ernesto - also screenplay
  • 1979: Liquirizia - also screenplay
  • 1980: First class (Un amore in prima classe) - also screenplay
  • 1981: Casta e pura
  • 1982: Stormtroopers 2 (tutti al fronte)
  • 1983: The brisk Teens of Rimini (Vai alla grande)
  • 1984: Hunger for tenderness (Fotografando Patrizia) - also screenplay
  • 1986: La Bonne - also screenplay
  • 1991: Malizia 2mila - also screenplay
  • 1993: Where were you that night? ( Dov'eri quella notte ; TV movie)
  • 2004: Madame (TV movie)
  • 2006: L'onore e il rispetto (TV series)
  • 2008: Il sangue e la rosa (TV series)
  • 2009: L'Onore e il Rispetto: Parte Seconda (TV miniseries, 6 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinema: è morto Salvatore Samperi - Corriere della Sera. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ SAMPERI, Salvatore in "Dizionario Biografico". Retrieved April 24, 2019 (it-IT).
  3. ↑ Cinema: è morto Salvatore Samperi - Corriere della Sera. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ SAMPERI, Salvatore in "Dizionario Biografico". Retrieved April 24, 2019 (it-IT).
  5. ↑ CINEMA, E´ MORTO SALVATORE SAMPERI - positanonews.it. March 5, 2009, accessed May 10, 2019 (Italian).
  6. ↑ Cinema: è morto Salvatore Samperi - Corriere della Sera. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Samperi, Salvatore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2009
Place of death Rome