AND’ dead Ettore Scola, the last great master of Italian comedy. Had 84 years. The great Director has gone off of the Department of cardiac surgery of Polyclinic in Rome.
With its cinema told the Italy that is rescued by fascism and tried to forget the war, with a deep but mild language has been able to draw all kinds of Italians, leftist intellectuals to merchants that compete. Protagonist, first as a writer and then as a Director, some of the finest pages of Italian cinema, Ettore Scola was born in Trevico (Avellino) the 10 may 1931.
His career began in the field of journalism with the humorous magazine collaboration Marc'aurelio and with those that then he will call “scribbles, which had devoted himself at an early age, at the same time as the course of law in Rome. Then in the mid-' 50 began writing screenplays, working with Age and Scarpelli, for films like UN americano a Roma (1954), The great war (1959) and Crimen (1960). The directorial debut is in 1964 with the movie If we are talking about women with Vittorio Gassman, that together with Nino Manfredi and Marcello Mastroianni, It will be one of the favorite actors from Scola.
With Il commissario Pepe (1969) and Dramma della gelosia – All details in Chronicle(1970) Scola enters the most important decade in her career. In 1974 directs C'eravamo tanto amati, movie spanning thirty years of Italian history from 1945 Al 1975 through the story of three friends played by Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi and Stefano Satta Flores, all in love with Luciana (Stefania Sandrelli). The film is a masterpiece that definitively among the great Italian cinema giving him also the internationally. Other essential titles such as Ugly, sporchi e cattivi (1976), winning the award for Best Director in Cannes, and UNA giornata particolare (1977) with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, Perhaps the most acclaimed film of Scola abroad. In 1980 the filmmaker spins The terrace, bitter budget of a group of left-wing intellectuals in crisis. Emblem of the years ' 80 of Scola's movie The family (1987), comedy that traces 80 years of history (1906-1986) with Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli and Fanny Ardant.
With the movie Unfair competition, set during fascism, and the documentary dedicated to Rome, Ettore Scola said he ended his activities as Director. Actually in recent years had made two documentaries, one dedicated to Rome,Gente di Roma, and another on his great friend with whom he had worked since the days of Marc'aurelio, What a strange name was Federico.
Ettore Scola was married to the screenwriter and Director Gigliola Scola. Together with her two daughters angelene had presented in November at Rome the documentary chronicling his life and career, Laughing and joking. On that occasion he said: “Cinema is a tough job but can you laughing and joking send some messaggetto, some postcard with your observation about the world. The cinema is like a spotlight that illuminates the things of life”.
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