Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian

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and

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.È morto Giuseppe Ferrara, regista dell'impegno civile

Biography

Born in

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, 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'') (in acronym UNIFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The f ...

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 () 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 the International Jury from the films i ...

for Gian Maria Volonté at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1995 film '' State Secret'' was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He taught "Science and Technologies of Artistic Productions" at the

University of Perugia The University of Perugia ( Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public university 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. The offi ...

. 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 * Ugo Bologna as Salvador Allende *Adalberto Maria Merli as Captain Felix Ramos *Mariangela Melato a ...

'' (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