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Roberto Faenza - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Roberto Faenza - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Director, Writer.
Born February 21, 1943, Turin, Italy - Italian film director and screenwriter.
Studied cinema at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, where in 1965 he received his diploma and Ph.D. as a director. The first time working as a documentary filmmaker, he gained fame after shooting the tape "Escalation" (1968), for which he also wrote the script. The film brought the director international fame, but for some reason in his native Italy it was censored.
In the late 1960s, he went to Washington to teach at a film school. And from 1978 to 2004 he taught social communications in Pisa. After that, by invitation, he teaches at one of the Roman universities of the Basics of Cinematography. In parallel with his teaching activities, he continues to make films according to his own scripts, and also writes essays and publishes several books. The basis of his written works is the theme of the relationship between Italians and Americans, for example, the interaction of these two nations with the variant of residence of one on the territory of the other. Several works eventually did not make it into any print media through some of the classified materials that were used there.
The 1978 film Forward, Italy! was never released, being frozen - censorship again rejected the director's film. This attitude of the state and the censorship committee to his work forces the director to shoot films with the assistance of other countries. In 1983, he directed the film, where he recruited Harvey Keitel and Johnny Rotten, The Cop Killer. As with many films, including the ones listed above, the famous film composer Ennio Morikone wrote quickly for the film. Ten years later, his film “Jonah Who Lived in the Belly of a Whale” was released on the world screens, which took place at many festivals and received several prestigious nominations and awards, including the prize of the International Moscow Film Festival.
Teaching at various film schools, the director and screenwriter continues to make films up to this day, often involving the United States and France in cooperation. In 2011, he recalls where he started and releases the documentary “Silvio Forever”, the main character of which was Silvio Berlusconi.
