Roberto Faenza
Roberto Faenza ( born February 21, 1943 in Turin ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Career
Faenza attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and graduated in directing. After a few short films, he did immediately afterwards, in 1968, two films as a director in the theaters. Escalation was an anti- capitalist society fable and their constraints over individual freedom. H2S followed a similar theme, but was located in a bizarre sci-fi world. It was not until 1971 he entered the cinema.
After studying political science at the University of Pisa put Faenza with the mounting film Forza Italia! a critique of the Christian Democrats and their representatives before. In 1979, the grotesque comedy Si salvi che vuole. With Harvey Keitel Faenza next film, which was shot in the United States Copkiller arose.
After a few years break Faenza brought in 1989 with Mio caro dottor Graesler a movie in the cinemas, which indicated its desire now to tell more linear stories, notable personalities were dedicated: it created works based on novels by Jonah Oberski and Antonio Tabucchi, the Biography Marianna Ucria Dacia Maraini and 1999, according to L' amante perduto, a confrontation with the palästinenisch -Israeli problem. All films were mostly praised and also achieved public interest.
In the new millennium followed by films, continued the Faenza successes: Prendimi l'anima was taken for his screenplay in the election to the Italian film award Nastro d'Argento Alla luce del sole, which is considered his masterpiece, tells the story of Mafia victim Don Pino Puglisi and was awarded a David di Donatello. After two more films in 2005 and 2007 appeared two years later with Il caso dell'infedele Klara a comedy by Michael Viewegh.
2011 appeared with Silvio forever an unauthorized biography of Silvio Berlusconi, said Faenza resorted again to the technique of mounting film.
Faenza is also the author of numerous essays and books on film and current events.
Private life
In the late 1960s learned Faenza former model Benedetta Barzini know. The couple married in 1969. Faenza Barzini left two years later on the day of birth of the common twin children.