Enzo Monteleone
Enzo Monteleone ( born April 13, 1954 in Padua ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life
Monteleone already dealt during periods of study with the movie; he was the director of the university cinema clubs and headed with his friends Roberto Citran and Carlo Mazzacurati the Cinema Club " CinemaUno " city of his birth. Early on, he wrote as part of his work for the " Circuito Cinema del Comune di Venezia " work on Blake Edwards, Ken Russell and Werner Herzog as well as the retrospective to mark the 50th anniversary of the Biennale cinemas. In 1980 he was geteiligt to the realization of the shot on 16mm Vagabondi by Carlo Mazzacurati, the Festival "Film Makers" in Milan.
In 1982 he moved to Rome, where he took a variety of tasks: he wrote press books for the production company Gaumont and Artisti Associati, was responsible for a cinema broadcast on Italian television, worked as a dialogue writer and as an assistant director. First time in 1986 a screenplay Monte Leone was filmed: Hotel Colonial, an Italian- American co-production with Robert Duvall, John Savage, Rachel Ward and Massimo Troisi directed by Cinzia TH Torrini.
There was a first of many collaborations with Gabriele Salvatores, for the Monteleone wrote a total of four films: Kamikazes, which among other Paolo Rossi, Silvio Orlando and Claudio Bisio played, Marrakech Express, Mediterraneo, who won in 1992 with the Oscar for best foreign language film, as well as Puerto Escondido, the Italian box office success of the movie season 1992-1993.
As a screenwriter, he wrote for several other directors of the new generation: For Mazzacurati Il prete bello; Giuseppe Piccioni for Chiedi la luna; Alessandro D' Alatri The Red Americans and for Maurizio Sciarra Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli, the winner of the Locarno Festival 2001. Shortly before his directorial debut, he was Carlos Saura's for Dispara! operates, the staffed with Antonio Banderas and Francesca Neri, at the Film Festival in Venice in 1993 ran in the competition.
In 1994 appeared Monte Leone 's directorial debut, La vera vita di Antonio H. - also presented in Venice - a tragicomic biography, and actor Alessandro Haber ( for his performance a Silver Ribbon for Best Actor won ). Monteleone was honored for his debut with the Premio Felice.
A documentary and two short films followed with Ormai è fatta! 1999, his second feature film. In the Moscow Film Festival unveiled competition, work and lead actor Stefano Accorsi has won several awards and received four nominations for the David di Donatello in 2000.
The 2002 turned El Alamein 1942 - The hell of the desert war ( the year before he had the subject edited documentary ), tells the desperate struggle of a company Italian soldiers in one of the bloodiest battles desert. Again Monte Leone's work has been honored: Three times a David di Donatello ( for Best Photography, Best Editing and Best Music ), twice a Globo D' Oro, a Silver Ribbon as well as several awards for himself as the director of the film.
2004 was followed by a TV movie; for Canale 5, the two-piece Il tunnel della libertà was with Kim Rossi Stuart. In a true story based, the film tells the story of two Italian students who flee after the construction of the Berlin Wall along with other through a tunnel from East Berlin. Three years later, for the same station the mini-series The boss of bosses; Episodes from the life of Totò Riina criminal and the clan of Corleonesi. Even with this new format Monteleone was the audience as well as with the critics enormously successful.
In 2009 he adapted Cristina Comencini comedy Due partite for the screen and occupied Margherita Buy, Isabella Ferrari, Paola Cortellesi and Marina Massironi in supporting roles. In the summer of 2011 was for Rai 1, the two-part TV movie Walter Chiari - Fino all'ultima risata in which the adventurous life of the famous actor Walter Chiari is told, the film does not knock out its darker sides. Alessio Boni played the title role.