Elio Petri
Elio Petri ( born January 29, 1929 in Rome, † November 10, 1982 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life
Petri was first film critic and late 1940s organizer of cultural activities of the Communist Party of Italy. In the early 1950s he began to write screenplays, was active as a documentary filmmaker and worked as assistant director for Giuseppe De Santis. In 1961 he got the chance for his directorial debut. With Dare Alfredo to a murder? He was also invited to the same competition at the Berlinale 1961. After some contract work, including the interesting after Robert Sheckley created The tenth victim, he took in 1967 with his film Two coffins to order at the Film Festival of Cannes 1967 part and received the award for best screenplay. At the International Film Festival of Cannes 1970, he was awarded the Special Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize for his film investigation of a citizen above suspicion. In 1972, he won the main prize of the festival in Cannes, the Grand Prix, with the path of the working class into paradise. The film investigation of a citizen above suspicion of the left filmmaker won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His films are often " determined by an incurable pessimism which enriched with metaphysical thought and shown with expressionist style means " is.
Elio Petri died in 1982 from cancer.
Work
Filmography
- Elio Petri Edition, 3 movies, 4 DVD German, Italian, English, 303 minutes Koch Media 2013
- Roma ore 11 (Rome & Milan: Editore Sellerio Palermo, 1956; 2004).
- L' assassino (Milan: Zibetti, 1962). With Tonino Guerra.
- Indagine su un di sopra ogni cittadino al sospetto (Rome: Tindalo, 1970). With Ugo Pirro.
- La proprietà non è più un furto (Milan: Bompiani, 1973). With Ugo Pirro.
- Scritti di cinema e di vita, by Jean A. Gili ed (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007).
- Writings on Cinema & Life, ed by Jean A. Gili (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2013).