- Gabriele Salvatores
Gabriele Salvatores (born
July 30 ,1950 ), is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.Biography
Born in
Naples , Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in1972 , founding inMilan the Teatro dell'Elfo ("Elf's Theatre"), for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his first feature film, "
Marrakech Express ", which was followed in 1990 by "Turné ". Both films shared a group of actor-friends, includingDiego Abatantuono andFabrizio Bentivoglio , who will be present in many of his later movies.In
1991 , Salvatores received great international praise for "Mediterraneo ", which won an Academy Award as best foreign film. It also won threeDavid di Donatello , the most important award for Italian cinema, and aSilver Ribbon .In
1992 , he released "Puerto Escondido", from the eponymous novel byPino Cacucci , in which Abatantuono and Bentivoglio were joined by another standard actor for Salvatores,Claudio Bisio . The following year he directed "Sud ", featuringSilvio Orlando , an attempt to denounce the political and social situation of theMezzogiorno of Italy seen from the point of view of the unemployed and those at the margins of society.The main themes of Salvatores' screenplays are escape from a reality that cannot be accepted or understood, nostalgia for friends, and voyages that never end. A new experimental period, however, started in 1997 with "Nirvana", a science fiction/
cyberpunk attempt which received mixed reviews. This was followed by the surreal "Denti " ("Teeth",2000 ), and "Amnèsia " (2002 ). Both featuredSergio Rubini .A good success was "
Io non ho paura " of2003 , from theNiccolò Ammaniti novel. In 2005 he directed thenoir "Quo vadis, baby? ".Filmography
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Sogno di una notte d'estate " (1983 )
*"Kamikazen ultima notte a Milano " (1987 )
*"Marrakech Express " (1989 )
*"Turné " (1990 )
*"Mediterraneo" (1991 )
*"Puerto Escondido" (1992 )
*"Sud " (1993 )
*"Nirvana" (1997 )
*"Denti " (2000 )
*"Amnèsia " (2002 )
*"Io non ho paura " (2003 )
*"Quo vadis, baby? " (2005 )
*"Come Dio comanda " (2008 )
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