Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri ( born May 11, 1928 in Milan, † 9 May 1997 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known to a wider audience Ferreri was The great feast in 1973 mainly due to the satire. With many of his films such as La carne with, in which a man eats his mistress, Ferreri provoked aware of his audience.
Life
Initially he earned his living as spirits representatives, Ferreri collected 1949/1950 first experiences in the film business by the taken with Sergio Spina turning of advertising films. After moving to Rome, he devoted himself to the production of Documento mensile, a newsreel and worked the coat for the first time for the film as a production inspector with Alberto Lattuada. Other tasks for projects of Cesare Zavattini followed.
Mid-1950s Ferreri went to Spain, where he met the humorist Rafael Azcona, with whom he began a year-long collaboration; first fruit of this work was his feature film debut El pisito, which appeared in 1958. Two other produced in Spain and realized films, she also sarcastic and ironic, followed before Ferreri returned to his home country. There he turned nonconformist, often controversial and rezipierte films such as The Queen Bee, La donna scimmia and Marcia nuziale. Consistent themes of his works were pessimistic views on the confrontation of individual fates with social norms, which he analyzed in other films, in part, an extreme way.
The great feast 1973 was a resounding success; to repeat it did not succeed. Many of his later films were included as attempted exercises in grotesque and polemical provocation. Ferreri is designated as unclassifiable and brilliant filmmaker.