Valentino Orsini

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Valentino Orsini (born January 19, 1927 in Pisa , † January 25, 2001 in Cerveteri ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director . Although hardly known to the public, he is considered one of the most innovative directors of the 1960s.

Life

Orsini took an early interest in art and worked as a sculptor, dramaturge, cinema critic and amateur filmmaker, before turning his interest to documentary film from 1954. Often in collaboration with the Tavani brothers , he produced numerous excellent works in this field until 1971. San Miniato, luglio 1944 (from 1955) and the I cavatori di pietra , created the following year, as well as L'Italia non c'è un paese povero (in 1960), realized together with Joris Ivens and the Tavianis, are particularly famous . With the latter he also presented his first feature film Un uomo da bruciare in 1962, which they followed up with the comedy I fuorilegge del matrimonio . After several years in documentary and industrial film, Orsini returned as the sole director and worked on a current problem with I dannati della terra : the clear analysis of the life crisis of an intellectual who is confronted with the problems of the third world. His subsequent films, with a certain artificiality, bear witness to the director's deep compassion for his protagonists, in the resistance film I corbari as well as in the drug drama Figlio mio infinitamente caro .

In later years Orsini taught directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia .

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1962: Brandmarked (Un uomo da bruciare) (co-director)
  • 1968: The damned of this earth (I dannati della terra)
  • 1970: The last partisans (Corbari)
  • 1971: The lover of the great she-bear (L'amante dell'Orsa maggiore)
  • 1984: Crash into Hell (Figlio mio infinitamente caro)

script

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, pp. 314/315
personal data
SURNAME Orsini, Valentino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Pisa
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2001
Place of death Cerveteri