Vincenzo Marra
Vincenzo Marra (born September 18, 1972 in Naples ) is an Italian film director .
Life
Marra graduated in law and then worked as a sports photographer in Rome. In 1996 he made his first short films and was assistant for two feature films; with Mario Martone also for theater work. In 2001 his first full-length film, Tornando a casa , was released, a drama designed almost like a documentary about a Neapolitan fishing family and a Maghreb migrant. The film won the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival . Since then several documentaries and two other feature films have been made. Estranei alla massa documents the Ultrà movement in Naples; Marra, rated as a “sensitive observer”, also presented a work on the Palestinian world and in 2007 L'oro di punta , a film drama with Fanny Ardant .
Filmography (selection)
- 2001: Tornando a casa
- 2004: Vento di terra
- 2007: L'oro di punta
Web links
- Vincenzo Marra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marra at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 270; Daniel Winkler: South Side Stori. Genre tradition and variation in Sicilian cinema. Marco Bellocchio, Vincenzo Marra, Roberta Torre , in: Birgit Wagner / Daniel Winkler ed, Nuovo Cinema Italia. The Italian film is back . Vienna u. a., Böhlau 2010. 47-61. (= Maske & Kothurn. International contributions to theater, film and media studies 1/56).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marra, Vincenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |