Le italiane e l'amore

Lorenza Mazzetti

Lorenza Mazzetti moved to London right after WWII and studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts. Between 1952 and 1953, she stole some school equipment and film and secretly made her first short, K, which introduced her to London’s movie world. In a certain sense, the movie anticipated the Free Cinema manifesto, which Mazzetti herself signed in 1956 with Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz. Thanks to the support of Denis Forman, the director of the British Film Institute, and with the help of people such as Anderson himself, she shot the medium-length Together (1956), with which she participated at the first Free Cinema screenings and at the Cannes Film Festival, where she received a Mention au film de recherche. After returning to Italy, she next dedicated herself to writing and published the autobiographical novel The Sky Falls, with which she won the 1962 Viareggio Prize, and which was followed by Rage (1963) and Uccidi il padre e la madre (1969). At the same time, she also dedicated herself to journalism, collaborating with the journal “Vie Nuove;” to theater, founding and directing the Puppet Theatre in Rome; and to painting. In 2014, she published Diario londinese.

FILMOGRAFIA

K (cm, 1954), Together (mm, 1956).

Gian Vittorio Baldi

FILMOGRAFIA

1961: La prova d'amore (episodio di Le italiane e l'amore). 1963: Luciano, una vita bruciata oppure Madre ignota (uscita sugli schermi 1967). 1968: Fuoco! 1972: La notte dei fiori. 1975: L'ultimo giorno di scuola prima delle vacanze di Natale. 1977: Anni duri (per la TV).

Giulio Questi

Giulio Questi (Bergamo, 1924), after his experience as a partisan, began to write short stories for various literary journals (including Vittorini’s “Il Politecnico); in the mid-1950s, he began working in cinema, as a documentary filmmaker (Giocare, 1957), an assistant director for Zurlini and Rosi, and an actor for Fellini in La dolce vita (1960). In 1961, he shot his first fiction film, Viaggio di nozze, an episode of Latin Lovers, and the next year he collaborated on the “mondo film” (a movie made with archival material that is deliberately shocking and offensive) Universo di notte. In 1963, he directed an episode of another collective move, Nudi per vivere, which he made with Elio Petri and Giuliano Montaldo under the pseudonym Elio Montesti; the movie was seized by the censors and was never distributed. In 1964, he directed Il passo, an episode for the film Amori pericolosi, and finally, in 1967, his first feature film: the western Django, Kill (If You Live, Shoot!), which was also seized because of explicit violence and was extensively re-edited (in 1975 it was re-released with the title Oro Hondo, in a longer but still incomplete version). In 1968, he directed A Curious Way to Love, an unsuccessful murder mystery starring Gina Lollobrigida and Jean-Louis Trintignant, and in 1972, Arcana, a surrealistic masterpiece which once again had distribution problems. He left cinema and in the 1970s and 1980s worked in television, directing works that include L’uomo della sabbia (1975), Vampirismus (1982) and Il segno del comando (1989), a remake of the tv film of the same title from 1971. Between 2003 and 2007, completely on his own, he made a series of seven experimental shorts (which were brought together in 2008 in the collection By Giulio Questi) in which he was the sole protagonist, as well as the director, screenwriter and editor. 2014 marked his debut as an author, when Einaudi published his collection of short stories Uomini e comandanti, for which he recently won the Piero Chiara literary award.

FILMOGRAFIA

Le italiane e l’amore (ep. La prima notte, coregia Marco Ferreri, Gian Vittorio Baldi, cm, 1961), Universo di notte (non accr./uncred., doc., 1962), Nudi per vivere (coregia Elio Petri, Giuliano Montaldo [Elio Montesti], 1963), Amori pericolosi (ep. Il passo, coregia Carlo Lizzani, Alfredo Giannetti, mm, 1964), Se sei vivo spara (conosciuto anche come/also known as Oro Hondo o/or Django Kill, 1967), La morte ha fatto l’uovo (1968), Arcana (1972), L’uomo della sabbia (tv, 1975), Vampirismus (tv, 1982), Quando arriva il giudice (tv, 1985), Il segno del comando (tv, 1989), Non aprire all’uomo nero (tv, 1994), Il commissario Sarti (tv, 1994), By Giulio Questi (serie di cortometraggi/short films series: Doctor schizo e Mister Phrenic, Lettera da Salamanca, Tatatatango, Mysterium Noctis, Vacanze con alice, Repressione in città, Vacanze con Alice, Visitors).

Marco Ferreri

(Milan, 1928 - Paris, 1997) worked as a producer in the 1950s and moved to Spain,  where he created the films inspired by Buñuel El Pisito (1958), Los Chicos (1959) and The Wheelchair (1960). After returning to Italy, Ferreri kept the same tone with The Conjugal Bed (1963) and The Ape Woman (1964), which sparked the censors’ wrath. With Dillinger Is Dead (1969) and La Grand bouffe (1973) he filmed two great cinematographic allegories on the late capitalist society. His last film was Nitrate Base (1996).

FILMOGRAFIA

El pisito (id., 1958), Los chicos (I ragazzi, 1959), El cochecito (id., 1960), Le italiane e l’amore (ep. Gli adulteri, doc., 1961), Una storia moderna: l’ape regina (1963), La donna scimmia (1964), Controsesso (ep. Il professore, 1964), Break up: l’uomo dei palloni (1965), Oggi, domani, dopodomani (ep. L’uomo dei cinque palloni, 1965), Marcia nuziale (1966), L’harem (1967), Dillinger è morto (1969), Il seme dell’uomo (1969), Perché pagare per essere felici! (TV, doc., 1970), L’udienza (1971), La cagna (1972), La Grand bouffe (La grande abbuffata, 1973), Non toccare la donna bianca (1974), L’ultima donna (1976), Ciao Maschio (1978), Chiedo asilo (1979), Storie di ordinaria follia (1981), Storia di Piera (1983), Il futuro è donna (1984), I Love You (1986), Come sono buoni i bianchi! (1988), La casa del sorriso (1991), La carne (1991), Diario di un vizio (1993), Nitrato d’argento (1996).

Gianfranco Mingozzi

Gianfranco Mingozzi was born in Bologna on the 5th of April 1932. After his graduation in Law, he attended a course to be a director at Centro Sperimentale in Rome and he worked with Fellini as his assistant director. In 1964 he worked in Canada at the Office National du Film (N.F.B.). Screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author of investigative reports for the TV. His debut documentary as a director was La Taranta.
Documentaries. 1962: La Taranta. 1965: Con il cuore fermo, Sicilia. 1966: Michelangelo Antonioni, storia di un autore.
TV works. 1970: Pantere nere. 1970-72: C’è musica e musica. 1980: Sud e magia: Il treno per Istanbul (TV film). 1982: L’ultima diva: Francesca Bertini.
Films. 1967: Trio. 1968: Sequestro di persona. 1973: La vita in gioco (Morire a Roma). 1974: Flavia, la monaca musulmana. 1977: Gli ultimi tre giorni. 1982: La vela incantata.

Traduzione in inglese Francesca Sala

FILMOGRAFIA

Documentari. 1962: La Taranta. 1965: Con il cuore fermo, Sicilia. 1966: Michelangelo Antonioni, storia di un autore.
Lavori televisivi. 1970: Pantere nere. 197072: C'è musica e musica. 1980: Sud e magia; Il treno per Istanbul (film televisivo). 1982: L'ultima diva: Francesca Bertini.
Film a soggetto. 1967: Trio. 1968: Sequestro di persona. 1973: La vita in gioco (Morire a Roma) . 1974: Flavia, la monaca musulmana. 1977: Gli ultimi tre giorni. 1982: La vela incantata.

Florestano Vancini

(Ferrara, Italy, 1926) began his film career in the early 1950s as a documentary maker. He then worked as assistant director for Mario Soldati and Valerio Zurlini, before debuting as a director in 1960 with It Happened in ’43. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he alternated politically-involved works like La banda Casaroli (1962) and The Assassination of Matteotti (1973), with more intimist films like Seasons of Our Love (1966), and he also directed spaghetti westerns like Days of Vengeance (1967). During the 1980s and 1990s he dedicated himself to television (“La piovra 2” and “Piazza di Spagna”), and returned to films in 2005 with E ridendo l’uccise.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/
essential filmography
La lunga notte del ’43 (1960), Le italiane e l’amore (ep. La separazione legale, 1961), La banda Casaroli (1962), La calda vita (1964), Le stagioni del nostro amore (1966), I lunghi giorni della vendetta - Faccia d’angelo (1967), Violenza al sole (1969), Violenza: quinto potere (1972), Bronte - Cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno mai raccontato (1972), Il delitto Matteotti (1973), Amore amaro (1974), Un dramma borghese (1979), La baraonda - Passioni popolari (1980), «La piovra 2 » (TV, 1985), Imago urbis (doc., 1987), «Piazza di Spagna» (TV, 1993), E ridendo l’uccise (2005).

Piero Nelli

Francesco "Citto" Maselli

Giulio Macchi

Nelo Risi

FILMOGRAFIA

1961: Le ragazze madri (episodio di Le italiane e l'amore). 1966: Andremo in città. 1969: Diario di una schizofrenica. 1970: Ondata di calore; Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli oppure Dedicato a Pinelli (episodio). 1971: Una stagione all'inferno. 1973: La colonna infame. 1975: Le città del mondo (per la TV). 1976: La traversata (per la TV), Nossignore (per la TV). 1978: Idillio. L'infinito di Giacomo Leopardi (per la TV).

Carlo Musso