|
Accademia D'Arte Drammatica
Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (translation: Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts) is a national drama school in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the academy is the only state school for the training of actors and directors. Funded jointly by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, the Academy grants academic degrees equivalent to Bachelor of Arts as well as master's degrees. Its value comes from being the only school in Italy to be recognized by the Prime Minister / Department of Performing Arts and the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research. History In 1936, the academy replaced the former Director Acting school dedicated to Eleonora Duse. D'Amico, a friend of Nobel prize winner Luigi Pirandello and French theatre director Jacques Copeau, was appointed Special Commissioner for the reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Education, Universities And Research (Italy)
The Ministry of Education, University and Research (in it, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, italic=no or MIUR) is the ministry of the Italian government for the national education system, the Italian universities and research agencies. The current Italian Minister of Public Education is Giuseppe Valditara and the Italian Minister of University and Research is Maria Cristina Messa. History In 1988, the ''Ministry of University and Research'' was split off from the '' Ministry of Public Education''. In the first Prodi cabinet the two were merged back into the ''Ministry of Education, University and Scientific and Technological Research'', then as the ''Ministry of Education, University and Research'' (MIUR) in the second and third Berlusconi cabinets. The two were re-separated in the second Prodi cabinet of 17 May 2006, but then re-merged in the fourth Berlusconi cabinet of 7 May 2008. In 2019 the ministry drafted a policy combining evaluation of gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli; 3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many other films. She appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde. On her death, Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini called her "the Queen of Italian cinema". Vitti won five David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes for Best Actress, the Career Golden Globe, and the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Award. Early life Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome on 3 November 1931 to Adele (née Vittiglia) and Angelo Ceciarelli. She took her stage name from her mother's maiden name. Vitti acted in amateur productions as a teenager, then trained as an actress at Rome's National Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scilla Gabel
Scilla Gabel (born Gianfranca Gabellini; 4 January 1938) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1982. Career Born in Rimini, Italy, one of five children, Gabel entered the cinema industry as Sophia Loren's body double. Between 1957 and 1967 she appeared, often as the female lead actress, in dozens of films, but failed to emerge because of the stereotyped roles. Starting from late sixties she focused her activity on stage and television, in which she found most significant roles and critical appreciation. Personal life Gabel married Piero Schivazappa in 1968; they had one child. Father's murder On May 8th, 1999 Gabel's 87 year-old father Giuseppe Gabellini was murdered. He was landlord to a number of tenants at his villa on the via Campi di Torre Flavia two blocks from Ladispoli's beach, about 35 km west of Rome. One tenant, 65 year old Elisa Santilli owed Gabellini Lit. 900,000 ($785 in 2022) for several months rent, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film ''Lo Zappatore'' (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films ''Puccini'' (1953) and ''Casa Ricordi'' (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial ''L'Avventura'' (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, '' The Bible: In the Beginning...'' (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ennio Fantastichini
Ennio Fantastichini (20 February 1955 – 1 December 2018) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Gallese, province of Viterbo, Fantastichini studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. His breakout role was Tommaso Scalia in Gianni Amelio's '' Open Doors'', a role that gave him a Nastro d'Argento, a Ciak d'oro and a special European Film Award as European Discovery of the Year. In 2010, for his performance in Ferzan Özpetek's '' Loose Cannons'', he won a David di Donatello for best supporting actor and a second Nastro d'Argento in the same category. Fantastichini died of acute promyelocytic leukemia in Naples on 1 December 2018, at the age of 63. Selected filmography *1983: ''Fuori dal giorno'' *1984: ''Il ragazzo di Ebalus'' - Terrorist *1985: ''Big Deal After 20 Years'' - Domenico *1988: ''The Camels'' - Pino *1989: ''Via Panisperna Boys'' - Enrico Fermi *1990: '' Open Doors'' - Tommaso Scalia *1990: ''A Violent Life'' - Cosimo De Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato De Carmine
Renato De Carmine (25 January 1923 – 18 July 2010) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. After graduating at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, De Carmine worked mainly on stage, notably at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan under the direction of Giorgio Strehler. He also appeared in more than seventy films and television series and TV-movies, including Lucio Fulci's '' The Return of White Fang'' (1974). He died of acute anemia. Selected filmography * '' Hand of Death'' (1949) * ''William Tell'' (1949) * ''Mistress of the Mountains'' (1950) * ''Captain Demonio'' (1950) * ''Milady and the Musketeers'' (1952) * ''Charge of the Black Lancers'' (1962) * ''Angelique and the Sultan'' (1968) * '' Crimes of the Black Cat'' (1972) * '' The Return of White Fang'' (1974) * ''Allonsanfàn ''Allonsanfàn'' () is a 1974 Italian historical drama film written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The title of the film, which is also the name of a character, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Bosetti
Giulio Bosetti (26 December 1930 – 24 December 2009) was an Italian actor and director. Career Giulio Bosetti appeared in film, on television and on stage over 30 times. In 1972, he narrated the television special ''La vita di Leonardo da Vinci''. The biography succeeded in winning a Golden Globe for Best TV Special, and Bosetti was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Continued performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. One of his last works was ''Il Divo'', in which he portrayed the journalist Eugenio Scalfari. The film deals with the life of Italy's Giulio Andreotti, a man elected Prime Minister by Parliament seven times since it was established in 1946. Death Giulio Bosetti died two days short of his 79th birthday in Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Bonucci
Alberto Bonucci (; 19 May 1918 – 5 April 1969) was an Italian film actor and director. He appeared in 53 films between 1950 and 1967. He was born in Campobasso, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Partial filmography * ''Variety Lights'' (1950) - Night Club Comic * ''Fugitive in Trieste'' (1951) * ''Toto in Color'' (1952) - Il regista russo * ''It Happened in the Park'' (1953) - Il presentatore del concorso di bellezza (segment: Concorso di bellezza) * ''Neapolitan Carousel'' (1954) - Lyricist #1 * ''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) - Castiglione * ''La moglie è uguale per tutti'' (1955) - Leopoldo Rossi * ''Les Hussards'' (1955) - Raphaël * '' The Best Part'' (1955) - Antoine * ''Lo svitato'' (1956) - Un vigile urbano * ''Susanna tutta panna'' (1957) - Massimo * ''Femmine tre volte'' (1957) - Santucci * ''Ladro lui, ladra lei'' (1958) - Dottor Valletti * ''Promesse di marinaio'' (1958) - Giulio * ''Il terrore dell'Oklahoma'' (1959) - Benny * ''Roulotte e roulette'' (1959) - Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessio Boni
Alessio Boni (born 4 July 1966) is an Italian actor. Life Boni was born in Sarnico in 1966. He studied theatre at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. The second of three children, Marco is the eldest and Andrea is the youngest brother. In 1998, he had his television breakthrough in ''La Donna del Treno''. Other roles: * Quincy Moritz in ''Dracula'' (2002) * Matteo Carati in ''The Best of Youth'' (''La meglio gioventù'') (2003) * ''The Beast in the Heart'' (''La bestia nel cuore / Don't Tell'') (2005) * ''Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide'' (2005) * '' The Goodbye Kiss'' (2006) * Andrey Nikolayevich Bolkonsky in ''War and Peace'' (2007 - RAI-television series) * Caravaggio in '' Caravaggio '' (2007 - RAI-television series) * Giacomo Puccini in '' Puccini'' (2008 - RAI-television series) * Sgt. Cerato in '' The Tourist'' (2010) * ''Somewhere Amazing'' (2015) * ''The Girl in the Fog'' (2017) * Fra Dolcino in ''The Name of the Rose ''The Name of the Rose'' ( it, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuliana Berlinguer
Giuliana Berlinguer (; 23 November 1933 – 15 September 2014) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and novelist. Life and career Born in Mantua, Berlinguer studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she graduated in stage direction.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . She later focused on television, directing several RAI TV-movies and series, notably a successful 1969 ''Nero Wolfe'' miniseries starring Tino Buazzelli in the title role. In 1983 she directed the war-drama film ''Il disertore'', which was screened at the Venice Film Festival. She was the wife of Giovanni Berlinguer, the brother of Enrico Berlinguer Enrico Berlinguer (; 25 May 1922 – 11 June 1984) was an Italian politician, considered the most popular leader of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which he led as the national secretary from 1972 until his death during a tense period in Ital .... References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Van Den Berg
Dirk van den Berg (born May 10, 1966, in Düsseldorf) is a German film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ... and producer with international experience, known for creative documentaries about urgent issues in the Middle East and Africa. Biography A director / writer / producer with vast international experience, DIRK VAN DEN BERG specializes in complex subjects from difficult territories that have an impact on the world. For almost 25 years, Dirk lived in Rome, Italy where he graduated at the National Academy of Film and Drama, and at Rome University in Media Sciences. Connecting music and drama, he worked as an opera director, started directing and writing feature films, television and documentaries. At the same time, he participated in a growing number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002), was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian experimental theatre, avant-garde theatre and cinema. He died of a heart ailment in 2002. Works Literature In 1979 he wrote, in collaboration with French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the essay "Superpositions". In 1984 his play ''Adelchi'' was published. In 1970 he wrote the screenplay ''A boccaperta, A Boccaperta''. * ''I Appeared to the Madonna'', translated with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico (Contra Mundum Press: 2020) Partial filmography * ''Oedipus Rex (1967 film), Oedipus Rex'' (1967, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini) - Creonte * ''Nostra Signora dei Turchi - Our Lady of the Turks'' (1968, director, Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize) - The Man / Narrator * ''Catch as Catch Can (1967 film), Catch as Catch Can'' (1968) - Priest * ''Capricci'' (1969, director) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
