Alessandro Di Robilant
Alessandro Di Robilant ( born October 23, 1953 in Pully, Switzerland ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life
Di Robilant grew up in Milan and began his career by directing commercials and short films. In feature films, he was first active as an assistant editor and author and debuted in 1984 with Ancha lei fumava il sigaro, an unconventional contribution amid the prevailing very translated to mainstream film industry, which caught the attention of critics. The 1991 Il nodo alla resulting cravatta tells of the conflict between two worlds of adolescent youths and showed Di Robilants cinematic trend towards on social issues.
With Il giudice ragazzino the director succeeded in 1994, the breakthrough; the at the Film Festival of Berlin spilled in the contest and award-winning film is a biography of the assassinated by the Mafia Rosario Livatino. After a documentary De Robilant turned with the resulting for RAI Vite blindate 1997 was also a mafia story; the two-parter La voce del sangue plays in Calabria.
In the new millennium, the main theme of De Robilants, now filmed biographical and intimate topics changed. The resulting 2003 Per semper with Giancarlo Giannini split critics and audiences; again while watching television was formed in 2006 L' uomo della carità about Luigi De Liegro, the founder of Caritas Diocesana di Roma. Marpiccolo from the year 2009 is fast approaching the difficult youth a growing boy in Taranto with the di Robilant " own style perfect storytelling, especially on multi-dimensional characters that illuminates especially the emotional depths. Failure, love, boys and girls adds to the film. "