Fulvio Wetzl (born March 12, 1953, in
Padua
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) is an Italian
filmmaker
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.
Filmography
* "Rorret" starring
Lou Castel
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Anna Galiena
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Massimo Venturiello, Enrica Rosso, Patrizia Punzo (1987 – Forum
Berlin International Film Festival
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1988 – distributed in U.S. by Dan Talbot
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– first release on February 8, 1989, at Forum 1 in New York)
* "Quattro Figli Unici" (Four only children) with Valentina Holtkamp,
Roberto Citran
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Born in Padua, Citran graduated in psychology and founded the university film club "CINEMAUNO" in his hometown. After some sporadic stage works he founded a small theate ...
,
Mariella Valentini,
Ivano Marescotti
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(1992 – Italian Film Panorama –
Venice Film Festival
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1992)
* "Prima la musica, poi le parole" (First Music, then the Words) with Andrei Chalimon(
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),
Anna Bonaiuto
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Jacques Perrin
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Amanda Sandrelli
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Gigio Alberti
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, Barbara Enrichi (1998 –
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in competition 1999)
* "Un mondo diverso è possibile" (Another World is Possible) (codirected with 32 Italian directors – among others
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Maselli graduated at the National Film School in 1949 and began his career as assista ...
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Gillo Pontecorvo
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– documentary, 2001)
* "Faces-Facce" (codirected with Francesco Tanzi – documentary, 2001)
* "La primavera del 2002" (codirected with 44 Italian directors – among others Francesco Maselli, Mario Monicelli, Gillo Pontecorvo – documentary, 2002)
* "Fame di diritti" (codirected with Francesco Tanzi – documentary, 2002)
* "Lettere dalla Palestina" (Letters from Palestine) (codirected with Franco Angeli,
Giuliana Berlinguer
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Born in Mantua, Berlinguer studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she graduated in sta ...
, Maurizio Carrassi, Giuliana Gamba, Roberto Giannarelli,
Wilma Labate
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, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti,
Francesco Maselli
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Maselli graduated at the National Film School in 1949 and began his career as assista ...
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Mario Monicelli
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Ettore Scola
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– feature film – Forum
Berlin International Film Festival
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2002)
* "Aida delle marionette" (documentary, 2003)
* "Firenze, il nostro domani" (Florence, our Tomorrow) (codirected with Franco Angeli,
Franco Bernini,
Francesca Comencini, Nicholas Ferrari, Gianfranco Fiore,
Franco Giraldi
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Francesco Maselli
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Maselli graduated at the National Film School in 1949 and began his career as assista ...
,
Mario Monicelli
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Gillo Pontecorvo
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– documentary, 2003)
* "Darsi alla macchia" ( medium-length film, 2003)
* "1806, dalla terra alla città" (1806, from Land to Town) (medium-length film, 2005)
* "Scolari" (medium-length film, 2006)
* "Non voltarmi le spalle" (Don't Turn Your Back) with Valeria Vaiano, Stefania Pedrotti (2006)
* "Mineurs-minatori & minori" (Mineurs – Miners and Children) with
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, Valeria Vaiano, Antonino Iuorio, Ulderico Pesce,
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, Dre Steemans, Walter Golia, Tiziano Murano (
Giffoni Film Festival
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Panorama 2007 – Los Angeles, Italy, Film, Fashion and Art Festival 2007)
* "...Il catalogo è questo" (documentary, 2008)
* "Vultour, le tracce del sacro – territorio ed identità" (Vultour, Traces of the Sacred – Territory, and Identity) (documentary, 2008)
* "Libera nos a malo" (documentary, 2008)
* "Stella e strisce – Star and Stripes" (film in preparation, 2010–2014)
* "Prima la trama, poi il fondo" (documentary, codirector Laura Bagnoli, 2013) starring the artist Renata Pfeiffer
* "Rubando Bellezza" (codirectors Danny Biancardi and Laura Bagnoli – longfeature documentary, 2015) with
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, Lucilla Albano Bertolucci,
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, Morando Morandini
Critique
The film ''Rorret'', which Wetzl co-wrote and directed, was described as having "turn
da thriller into a yawner" by the Boston Globe, but was considered "a cinematic shrine to the creepy classics" by the Buffalo News
Vincent Canby on New York Times about the film wrote: "The movie can be best appreciated as the work of an obsessed, talented, ultimately very practical film student."
The film "First the Music Then the Word" was shown in several U.S. film festivals. Among others San Diego Film Festival, 2000, Italian Film Festival of Marin County, 1999, N.I.C.E. (New Italian Cinema Events) in 1998 in New York (Quad Cinema) and San Francisco (Kabuki Theater). "First the Music Then the Word" was also the Opening Night Gala film at the 2nd Toronto Italian Film Festival on June 16, 2000
References
External links
*
/ at the New York Times Cinema Database
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Living people
Italian film directors
1953 births