Enzo Monteleone (born 13 April 1954 in

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, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Career

Enzo Monteleone made his professional debut as a screenwriter with the screenplay of ''Hotel Colonial'', an Italian-American co-production directed by Cinzia TH Torrini, and starring

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, John Savage,

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and Massimo Troisi. He has written four screenplays for director

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: ''Kamikazen'', ''

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'', '' Mediterraneo'', which won an Oscar in 1992 for Best Foreign Film, and ''Puerto Escondido,'' as well as films for such directors as

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, Alessandro D'Alatri, Maurizio Sciarra and

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('' ¡Dispara!'', starring Antonio Banderas and

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.) Monteleone's first film as a director was a biopic of the actor Alessandro Haber, ''La Vera Vita di Antonio H.'', which was shown at the

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and which won the Italian

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award for Best Actor. The next film he directed was '' Ormai è fatta!'' (1999), which starred Stefano Accorsi and which was presented in competition at the

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, received an award at the Annecy film festival in France, and was nominated for a 2000 Italian David di Donatello award. In 2002 he directed the

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drama ''El Alamein - La Linea del Fuoco,'' which won three David di Donatello Awards ( Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound), and one

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for Canale 5 starring

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, based on the true story of two Italian students who dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in 1962 and helped thirty

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citizens escape to the

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. In 2007 he shot another project for Canale 5, the six part TV miniseries ''

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''. In 2009, he directed a comedy, ''Due Partite,'' written by

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and starring

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and

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and, in 2011, he directed a two-part TV series -- ''Walter Chiari - Fino all'Ultima Risata'' -- for Rai Uno, starring

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and based on the adventurous life of the well-known Italian actor

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Awards

Locarno Film Festival

*2001: Pardo d'Oro for best film - ''Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli''

Fice Award

*1994: Award for best direction - ''La vera vita di Antonio H.''

De Sica Award

*2002: Award for best direction - ''El Alamein - La linea del fuoco''

Filmography

Screenwriter

*''Hotel Colonial'', directed by

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(1986) *''Kamikazen'', directed by

(1987) *''

'', directed by Gabriele Salvatores (1988) *''Il prete bello'', directed by

(1989) *''La cattedra'', directed by Michele Sordillo (1990) *'' Mediterraneo'', directed by Gabriele Salvatores (1991) *''Chiedi la luna'', directed by Giuseppe Piccioni (1991) *''Americano rosso'', directed by Alessandro D'Alatri (1991) *''Puerto Escondido'', directed by Gabriele Salvatores (1992) *'' Bonus malus'', directed by

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(1993) *'' ¡Dispara!'', directed by

(1994) *''Liberate i pesci'', directed by Cristina Comencini (1999) *''Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli'', directed by Maurizio Sciarra (2001)

Director

*''

La vera vita di Antonio H. ''La vera vita di Antonio H.'' (internationally released as ''The True Life of Antonio H.'') is a 1994 Italian mockumentary film directed by Enzo Monteleone and loosely inspired to real life events of Alessandro Haber. For this film Haber won the ...

'' (1994) *''Interviste d'autore: Ettore Scola'' (1996) *''Beer & cigarettes'', short film (1997) *''Wine & cigarettes'', short film (1997) *'' Ormai è fatta!'' (1999) *''Piazza Vittorio'', documentary (2000) *''Sono solo un artigiano - Intervista a Suso Cecchi d'Amico'', documentary (2001) *''I ragazzi di El Alamein'', documentary (2001) *''El Alamein - La linea del fuoco'' (2002) *''Tunnel della libertà'', TV movie (2004) *''

'', 6 TV episodes (2007) *''Due partite'' (2009) *''Walter Chiari - Fino all'ultima risata'', TV miniseries (2012) *''Io Non Mi Arrendo'' (2016)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Monteleone, Enzo 1954 births Living people Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters