Vito Pandolfi
Vito Pandolfi (born December 24, 1917 in Forte dei Marmi , † March 19, 1974 in Rome ) was an Italian theater critic and film director .
Life
Registered at the registry office in the name of Ribelle Libero Bruno , he called himself Vito like his father throughout his life; he was the son of an employee at an armaments company and the author of the novel Il tempio misterioso from 1934, Ada Provera .
In 1943 he received his degree in directing from the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica . He took an active part in the resistance movement. In 1962 he became a lecturer in theater history and two years later he founded the “Teatro Stabile” in Rome, which he directed until 1969. He taught theater history at the University of Genoa from 1964 until the year of his death. In addition, he worked as a theater critic for newspapers and magazines, including L'Unità , Il Politecnico , Il dramma , Teatro Oggi and worked several times as an editor of theater yearbooks. In 1985 a street in Rome was named after him.
Works
Pandolfi dealt with the theater in many of his works, for example in La commedia dell'arte (1956), Il teatro drammatico dalle origini ai nostri giorni (1959) (in which he compares the development of theater with that of society), Teatro tedesco espressionista (1956), Teatro del dopo-guerra italiano (1956), Teatro contemporaneo italiano (1959), Teatro siciliano: introduzione critica (1961), Storia universale del teatro drammatico (1964), Teatro borghese dell'Ottocento (1967), Regia e registi nel teatro moderno (1973). Il film nella storia (1956) revolves around films , with folk traditions: Copioni da quattro soldi (1960).
Theater direction
Pandolfi made his debut as a director in 1944 with the Gorky play Yegor Bulytschow and others . The following year he directed The White Steed of Paul Vincent Carroll . Numerous important productions followed: 1946 The moon went down by John Steinbeck , in 1947 Bernada Albas Haus by Garcia Lorca . He worked with Luigi Squarzina and Lucinano Salce on La fiera delle maschere , which was shown in Prague and Venice . From 1951 to 1956 he performed a cycle of six works based on novellas by Boccaccio and Bandello on open-air stages, for which he was responsible with Vasco Pratolini and Carlo Bernari ; and Carlo Emilio Gadda was involved. There were performances of Aminta by Torquato Tasso in 1954, then Torquato Tasso by Goethe and Plautus ' Amphitruo and in 1957 Alberto Moravia's Beatrice Cenci . His passion for the Commedia dell'arte was shown (after the staging of Jean Renoir's Die goldene Karosse years earlier) in 1958 with Massimo Bontempelli's Nembo , in which Valeria Moricone took part.
Movie
In addition to the full-length documentary Provincia di Latina , the 1962 feature film Gli ultimi was made . The work, based on an autobiographical narrative by David Maria Turoldo , was filmed in Coderno ( Friuli-Venezia Giulia region ) with the local residents as actors and exists in two versions, which differ significantly in the final sequences.
Pandolfi Foundation
The municipality of Certaldo has managed the Pandolfi's estate and archive since 1990.
Other works
- 1947: Il romanticismo di Vachtangov
- 1950: Teatro
- 1953: Spettacolo del secolo: il teatro drammatico
- 1957: Il cinema nella storia
- 1957: Il teatro di Raffaele Viviani
- 1960: Isabella comica gelosa: avventure di maschere
- 1960: L'Adelchi, una tragedia inibita
- 1961: Quel che significa Alberto Sordi
- 1969: Eduardo De Filippo
- 1969: Raffaele Viviani
Web links
- Entry in the Enciclopedia Britannica
- Biography on ANPI.it
- Vito Pandolfi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pandolfi, Vito |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pandolfi, Ribelle Libero Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian theater critic and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forte dei Marmi |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1974 |
| Place of death | Rome |