Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli ( born December 9, 1930 in Rome ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life
Maselli, son of an art critic, was active on the side of the Resistance at a young age and enrolled at seventeen at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia one, which he left two years later with a diploma. He was assistant director Luigi Chiarini, and worked with Michelangelo Antonioni; next he made his first documentary (which he held until the late 1960s did again and again), which were received with great interest. In 1953 he made his debut as a feature film director with his contribution to the omnibus film Amore in città, and laid two years later with Gli Sbandati a brilliant job before, in which he reflected the political turmoil surrounding the armistice of Cassibile. After socially critical La donna del giorno and I delfini where in 1960 he described the hopelessness of the province of youth, he filmed the first novel Alberto Moravia's Gli indifferenti, 1963. According to two genre films followed in 1969 again politically engaged Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera. Il sospetto from 1974 tells the tale of an Italian communist worker in France in the year 1934 His later works were notable works. ; Storia d' amore, a modern neo-realist film, won the Special Jury Prize in Venice in 1986.
In 1996 he again excited more attention with his film Cronache dal Terzo millenio an anti-capitalist call; at the G8 meeting in Genoa, he was responsible for the overall management of the documentary Un mondo è possibile diverso.
Maselli was for many years chairman of the " Associazione Nazionale degli Cinematografici authoritarianism " and a founder of the " National Alliance Mondiale del Cinema".