Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.È morto Giuseppe Ferrara, regista dell'impegno civile

Biography

Born in Castelfiorentino, near

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, he founded at the high school an innovative film club, which proposes and critically analyzes neorealism movies; since then he showed a character of "novelty", often considered as "subversive". He graduated from the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

with a thesis on the "New Italian Cinema", Ferrara then moved to Rome to attend the directing course at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography and degreed in 1959, but hardly managed to find interesting opportunities, also because of his rather transparent political opinions. He continued, despite many difficulties and impediments, especially related to finance and production, his activities as a documentary and short filmmaker. After shooting several documentaries in the 1960s, he began making fictional films in the mid 1970s. His most famous film is '' The Moro Affair'' (1986), which was awarded with the

Silver Bear for Best Actor The Silver Bear for Best Actor (german: Silberner Bär/Bester Darsteller) was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020. It was given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance and was chosen by ...

for Gian Maria Volonté at the

37th Berlin International Film Festival The 37th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 20 February to 3 March 1987. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Soviet Union film ''Tema'' directed by Gleb Panfilov. The retrospective was in honour of Armenian-American film and ...

. His 1995 film '' State Secret'' was entered into the

19th Moscow International Film Festival The 19th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 July 1995. The Golden St. George was not awarded. Jury * Richard Gere (United States – President of the Jury) * Friedrich Gorenstein (Germany) * Aurelio De Laurentiis (Italy) ...

. He taught "Science and Technologies of Artistic Productions" at the

University of Perugia University of Perugia (Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public-owned university based in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale. Th ...

. Ferrara died of cardiac arrest on 25 June 2016, a few days before his 84th birthday.

Selected filmography

* ''

Faccia di spia ''Faccia di spia'' (also known as ''C.I.A. Secret Story'') is a 1975 Italian political drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferrara. Cast * Adalberto Maria Merli as captain Felix Ramos * Mariangela Melato as Tania *Francisco Rabal as Mehd ...

'' (1975) * '' Cento giorni a Palermo'' (1984) * '' The Moro Affair'' (1986) * ''

Giovanni Falcone Giovanni Falcone (; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian ...

'' (1993) * '' State Secret'' (1995) * '' The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair'' (2002)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrara, Giuseppe 1932 births 2016 deaths People from Castelfiorentino Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters