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Ennio Flaiano is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer Italien born on 5 march 1910 at Pescara (Italie)

Ennio Flaiano

Ennio Flaiano
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Nationality Italie
Birth 5 march 1910 at Pescara (Italie)
Death 20 november 1972 (at 62 years) at Rome (Italie)

Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 in Pescara – 20 November 1972 in Rome), was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½.

Biography

Flaiano wrote for Cineillustrato, Oggi, Il Mondo, Il Corriere della Sera and other prominent Italian newspapers and magazines.

In 1947, he won the Strega Prize for his novel, Tempo di uccidere (The Short Cut). Set in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion (1935–36), the novel tells the story of an Italian officer who accidentally kills an Ethiopian woman and is ravaged by the awareness of his act. The barren landscape around the protagonist hints at an interior emptiness and meaninglessness. This is one of the few Italian literary works dealing with the misdeeds of Italian colonialism in Eastern Africa. The novel has been constantly in print for sixty years. A movie adaptation with the same title, directed by Giuliano Montaldo and starred by Nicolas Cage, was released in 1989.

In 1971 Flaiano suffered a first heart-attack. "All will have to change", he wrote in his notes. He put his many papers in order and published them, although the major part of his memoirs were published posthumously. In November 1972 he began writing various autobiographical pieces for Corriere della Sera.

On November 20 of the same year, while at a clinic for a check-up, he suffered a second cardiac arrest and died. His daughter Lelè, after a long illness, died at age 40 in 1992. His wife Rosetta Rota, sister of composer Nino Rota, and aunt of the mathematician Giancarlo Rota, died at the end of 2003. The entire family is buried together at the Maccarese Cemetery, near Rome.


Flaiano's Rome
Flaiano's name is indissolubly tied to Rome, a city he loved and hated, as he was a caustic witness to its urban evolutions and debacles, its vices and its virtues. In La Solitudine del Satiro, Flaiano left numerous passages relating to his Rome.

In the Montesacro quarter of Rome, the LABit theatre company placed a commemorative plaque on the facade of his house where he lived from 1952.

Critic Richard Eder wrote in Newsday: "To read the late Ennio Flaiano is to imagine a bust of Ovid or Martial, placed in a piazza in Rome and smiling above a traffic jam. In his antic, melancholy irony, Flaiano wrote as if he were time itself, satirizing the present moment.

Best films

La Dolce Vita (1960)
(Story)
8½ (1963)
(Story)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
(Story)
La Strada (1954)
(Co-Writer)
Woman of the River (1954)
(Story)

Usually with

Nino Rota
Nino Rota
(18 films)
Tullio Pinelli
Tullio Pinelli
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ennio Flaiano (60 films)

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Actor

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, 1h42
Directed by Damian Pettigrew
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Terence Stamp, Donald Sutherland, Dante Ferretti, Tullio Pinelli
Roles Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.4858253.4858253.4858253.4858253.485825
A camera tracks crosswise alongside a wide, brightly appointed beach, in what appears to be the dead of winter. No bathers are in sight, only a rolling parade of empty cabanas, with a tranquil blue seascape in the distance beyond. The wistful, melancholy music of Nino Rota lends these vistas a dreamy familiarity. We then jump from color to luminous black & white, and a quick glimpse of Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece, 8½, in which the monumentally buxom harlot, La Saraghina, is preparing to perform her rumba on the beach for a flock of fugitive schoolboys. It's the very same beach we were just staring at, but magically denuded of 40 years of succeeding development, and made mythic through the eyes of a master. From this point of departure, Pettigrew juxtaposes archival footage and fresh interviews with Fellini's collaborators, interspersed with classic clips and the fruits of his own present-day visits to the haunting locales where I Vitelloni (1953), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), Fellini Satyricon (1969) and other cinematic wonders first came to life. The goal is to fuse these ingredients thematically, to a degree that may better illuminate Fellini's conscience and philosophies.
Romeo and Juliet, 2h18
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Théâtre, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Laurence Harvey, Flora Robson, John Gielgud, Norman Wooland, Bill Travers, Mervyn Johns
Roles Prince of Verona
Rating59% 2.9957752.9957752.9957752.9957752.995775
Vérone. Lors d’un bal masqué, les jeunes Roméo et Juliette tombent éperdument amoureux l’un de l’autre, au mépris de la haine que se vouent leurs familles, les Capulet et les Montaigu. Le père de Juliette, afin de s’opposer à cette idylle, organise l’union de sa fille avec le Comte de Paris. Dans le même temps, Roméo tue un Capulet, Tyhald, pour venger Mercutio, son meilleur ami mort lors un duel. Alors que les noces de sa bien-aimée sont arrangées en toute hâte, il est poussé à l’exil loin de Vérone.
Professor, My Son
Directed by Renato Castellani
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Pisu, Giorgio De Lullo, Nando Bruno, Mario Soldati, Gino Cavalieri
Roles Un insegnante
Rating74% 3.7270053.7270053.7270053.7270053.727005
A janitor (Aldo Fabrizi) seeks the social redemption allowing the child, to the sound of sacrifices, to study until becaming a teacher right in the school where he works.
Rome: Free City, 1h21
Directed by Marcello Pagliero
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Vittorio De Sica, Valentina Cortese, Nando Bruno, Andrea Checchi, Marisa Merlini, Ave Ninchi
Roles Il questorino (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2291153.2291153.2291153.2291153.229115
1944, Rome. La ville est libérée par les alliés. Un ancien soldat revient de la guerre mais il constate qu'il a tout perdu. Abandonné par la femme qu'il aimait et ruiné, il décide de mettre fin à ses jours. Alors qu'il tente de se suicider, il est sauvé à temps par son voisin, un petit voleur qui le prend sous son aile. En errant dans la ville traumatisée par les ravages de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les deux hommes rencontrent une dactylographe paumée qui, pour payer son loyer, est sur le point de se prostituer.

Scriptwriter

The Final Inquiry
Directed by Giulio Base
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Mónica Cruz, Dolph Lundgren, Max von Sydow, Hristo Chopov, Ornella Muti, Enrico Lo Verso
Roles Original Story
Rating52% 2.6475152.6475152.6475152.6475152.647515
The story follows a fictional Roman tribune named Titus Valerius Taurus, a veteran of campaigns in Germania, who is sent to Judaea by the emperor Tiberius to investigate the possibility of the divinity of the recently crucified Jesus. Although sceptical early on, Taurus is eventually convinced by a Christian girl he meets there named Tabitha, and chooses to abandon the army and remain there with her.
Time to Kill, 1h50
Directed by Giuliano Montaldo
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Nicolas Cage, Ricky Tognazzi, Georges Claisse, Giancarlo Giannini, Robert Liensol, Patrice-Flora Praxo
Roles Novel
Rating51% 2.5583052.5583052.5583052.5583052.558305
Lieutenant Silvestri suffers a toothache and decides to reach the nearest camp hospital earlier. En route to the camp his vehicle has an accident, and stops near a rock. Silvestri continues by walking, but at the construction site is no physician present. He is directed by a young man on a allegedly shorter route to the main camp, and on his way through the jungle he meets and rapes a young Ethiopian woman. Curiously she stays with him afterwards and he gives her his watch as a present. While taking refuge in a cave Silvestri shoots at a hyena, but the bullet ricochets and hits the woman. He buries her, trying to hide all traces, observing some ethopian people arrving nearby. Silvestri continues to the dentist at the main camp, where he tells the story to his superior, which decides to do nothing.
Liza
Liza (1972)
, 1h40
Directed by Marco Ferreri
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, BDSM in films
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Corinne Marchand, Claudine Berg, Dominique Marcas
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.237183.237183.237183.237183.23718
The painter Giorgio lives on an island alone with his dog. He is visited by the beautiful Liza, who has an affair with him.
Red Hot Shot
Genres Crime
Actors Helen Mirren, Barbara Bouchet, Carmelo Bene, David Groh, Isa Miranda, Eduardo Ciannelli
Rating57% 2.8611552.8611552.8611552.8611552.861155
Un riche industriel est retrouvé mort dans les rues de New York. L'homme était lié à une organisation criminelle qui est impliquée dans le trafic de drogue. L'enquête est remise au capitaine de police Frank Berin qui prend l'identité d'un violent biker afin de s'introduire dans le monde des trafiquants de drogue.
Sweet Charity, 2h29
Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Ricardo Montalbán, Sammy Davis Jr., John McMartin, Barbara Bouchet, Chita Rivera
Roles Original Story
Rating68% 3.447983.447983.447983.447983.44798
Charity Hope Valentine (Shirley MacLaine) works as a taxi dancer along with her friends, Nickie (Chita Rivera) and Helene (Paula Kelly). She longs for love, but has bad luck with men, being robbed and pushed off a bridge in Central Park by one ex-boyfriend. She has another humiliating encounter with Vittorio Vitale (Ricardo Montalban), a movie star.
Alive or Preferably Dead, 1h43
Directed by Duccio Tessari
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Actors Giuliano Gemma, Sydne Rome, George Rigaud, Antonio Casas, Víctor Israel, Dan van Husen
Roles Story
Rating53% 2.6640852.6640852.6640852.6640852.664085
Two estranged brothers, city gambler Monty (Gemma) and Wild West farmer Ted Mulligan (Benvenuti) inherit $300,000 from their late uncle, on condition that they endure to live together for six months. The two start fighting about everything, and trouble begins as soon as Monty arrives in Ted's hometown.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians, 1h55
Directed by Pietro Germi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Beba Loncar, Olga Villi, Franco Fabrizi
Rating75% 3.7846353.7846353.7846353.7846353.784635
Dans une petite ville non nommée de Vénétie, un groupe d'amis qui constitue la bourgeoisie locale navigue entre sauteries et coucheries.