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Marcello Mastroianni - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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September 28, 1924 - December 19, 1996 - Italian actor
Mastroianni spent his childhood and adolescence in Turin and Rome. The performances of those years were sustained in a purely neorealistic tone, as well as the first films with the participation of the young actor.
Having played with Visconti in White Nights (1957) and with Mario Monicelli in the crime comedy Intruders Unknown (1958), Mastroianni was noticed by the great Fellini, who invited him to the lead role in his grandiose fresco La Dolce Vita (1960). This film instantly made him famous and in demand throughout Europe in an unusual acting incarnation of an intellectual and cosmopolitan for him.
In 1961, there were equally enthusiastic reviews from film critics about Mastroianni's work in Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Night", where his detached manner of performance exactly corresponded to the director's task of conveying the alienation prevailing in modern society. The next two films with his participation - "Divorce in Italian" with Stefania Sandrelli (directed by Pietro Germi) and "Private Life" with Brigitte Bardot (directed by Louis Malle) - were aimed at a wider audience.
Having won two awards in a row at the British Academy of Film, Mastroianni starred in Fellini's new masterpiece Eight and a Half (1963), after which producer Carlo Ponti recruited him to a number of projects with his wife, Sophia Loren. Under the direction of director Vittorio de Sica, Mastroianni and Lauren played the couple in Marriage in Italian and Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. This is how one of the most famous duets in world cinema was born.
Having crossed the forty-year mark, Mastroianni again works with Visconti ("The Stranger", 1967), Fellini ("Rome", 1970) and Roman Polanski ("What?", 1973). Another project with Vittorio de Sica and Sophia Loren - "Sunflowers" (1970) - was carried out not without Soviet participation.
In the second half of the 1970s - 1980s, the actor starred even more than before. Every year several films with his participation were released, and although they did not have much popularity with the viewer, critics still favored him. In 1986 he received the Cannes Film Festival prize and was nominated for an Oscar for the third time, this time for his role in Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Black Eyes" .
In one of his last films - "Pret-a-Porter" by Robert Altman (1994) - Mastroianni played an Italian who returned from Russia, who is in love with the heroine Sophia Loren.
Mastroianni died two years later of pancreatic cancer. On the days before the funeral, the Trevi Fountain in Rome, associated with his role in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, was symbolically disabled and draped in black in respect of the departed actor.
