Vittorio Bonicelli

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Vittorio Bonicelli (born April 28, 1919 in San Valentino, Abruzzo , † July 26, 1994 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter and television producer who became internationally known for films such as Barbarella , Waterloo , The Garden of the Finzi Contini and The Investigation .

life and career

Vittorio Bonicelli was born in San Valentino in Abruzzo in 1919. He spent his childhood and youth with his parents in Cesena . As an adult, Bonicelli first completed his law studies before working in the journalistic field in Milan for a number of years as a film and theater critic for numerous newspapers and magazines after the war. From the late 1960s on, Bonicelli worked in the film business as a screenwriter and briefly as a television producer.

His breakthrough came in 1968 with his scripts for the Italian cinema production Barbarella and the television miniseries The Odyssey, in which he also appeared as a producer on eight episodes. In the following years he worked for film and television productions such as Giovinezza giovinezza , the miniseries The Story of the Apostles and the historical film Waterloo by director Sergei Bondarchuk .

At the 1972 Academy Awards , he and Ugo Pirro received a nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for the cinema production Der Garten der Finzi Contini . In the 1970s and 1980s, he made other screenplays for films and television series such as Moses with Burt Lancaster in the title role, as well as Come una rosa al naso , the television miniseries Arabella , Damiano Damiani's film drama The Investigation and the television film A child named Jesus under directed by Franco Rossi . In 1993 one of his last works appeared with the television miniseries Charlemagne for director Clive Donner . Bonicelli died in 1994 at the age of 65. The television film with its script version Mein Baby shall live with Marina Malfatti and Katharina Böhm was released posthumously in 1996 .

In 1957, Vittorio Bonicelli was a member of the jury at the Venice International Film Festival .

Awards

Filmography

movie theater

as a screenwriter

watch TV

as a screenwriter
  • 1968: The Odyssey ( L'Odissea , television miniseries, 6 episodes)
  • 1969: The story of the apostles ( Atti degli apostoli , television miniseries)
  • 1971: The Aeneid (Aeneid) (TV miniseries)
  • 1974: Moses ( Moses, the Lawgiver , television miniseries)
  • 1979: La commediante veneziana (TV miniseries)
  • 1980: Arabella (TV miniseries, 5 episodes)
  • 1981: Le ali della colomba (TV miniseries)
  • 1983: Benedetta e company (TV movie)
  • 1984: Un delitto (TV movie)
  • 1987: A child named Jesus ( Un bambino di nome Gesú , TV movie)
  • 1988: Sei delitti per padre Brown (TV miniseries)
  • 1989: Un bambino in fuga (TV miniseries)
  • 1990: Il colore della vittoria (TV movie)
  • 1993: Charlemagne ( Charlemagne, le prince à cheval , television miniseries)
  • 1996: My baby should live ( A rischio d'amore , TV movie)
as a producer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vittorio Bonicelli . in: Carlo Dolcini, Pier Giovanni Fabbri: Le vite dei cesenati, Volume 1. , Stilgraf, 2007, p. 112
  2. ^ Vittorio Bonicelli . in: Silvia Bizio, Claudia Laffranchi: Cinema Italian Style: Italians at the Academy Awards. , Gremese, 2002, p. 76
  3. ^ Vittorio Bonicelli . in: Carlo Dolcini, Pier Giovanni Fabbri: Le vite dei cesenati, Volume 1. , Stilgraf, 2007, p. 116
personal data
SURNAME Bonicelli, Vittorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH San Valentino, Abruzzo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1994
Place of death Rome , Italy