Umberto Eco
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Umberto Eco OMRI (Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko]; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known internationally for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller. Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays. He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino, president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alessandria, Piemonte, Italia
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Birthday: January 05, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 19, 2016
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Andate a lavorare
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-04-11
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Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Overview: A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-03-02
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All Men Become Brothers
Overview: A film about the phenomenon of Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak politician, one of the most prominent personalities of the Prague Spring of 1968, author of the concept of “socialism with a human face”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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La Maison de la Radio
Overview: Making a film about a radio station doesn’t sound like the most visually compelling of projects. How many takes do you need before the acoustic transition from the opening to the closing of a door is perfect or the reader's voice correctly modulated? Nicolas Philibert has accepted the challenge to portray that which cannot be seen. Shouldering his camera, he spent half a year wandering the endless corridors of Radio France’s ‘round house’ on the banks of the Seine where he filmed people who dedicate themselves utterly and meticulously to their work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-04-03
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Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
Overview: No other country in the world has the same kind of affection and admiration toward Walt Disney and his art and characters as Italy. His movies are legendary and his stories belong to the collective imagination of generations of Italians who grew up with his world of dreams and hopes. This documentary explores this love story.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-02-10
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Quiproquo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-03
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Life Is Bearable at Times...
Overview: Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-02-28
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We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Overview: This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this veritable cultural revolution rapidly became a boundless source of inspiration for movie-makers throughout the entire world. Even today it influences those wanting to produce quality movies characterized and identified as Italian products able to be exported as well. It is precisely one of the masters of this unique current rich in different personalities who introduces the story - Carlo Lizzani - whose 'lesson' reconstructs the birth and development of Neorealism in Italy. It combined innovative movie techniques with a new view based on a 'true' interpretation of reality. Due to its high cultural value, this short film was given the highest reknown of the Presidency of the Republic of Italy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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A Beautiful Vacation
Overview: This 2006 documentary was filmed on the occasion of director Dino Risi's ninetieth birthday. It features interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family, as well as Risi himself, who talks candidly about his personal successes and the obstacles he has faced.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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La Notte
Overview: A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-24
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Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco
Overview: Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets behind his undertakings and novels.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-10
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Overview: A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-10-11
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La rosa dei nomi
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Why Are We Creative?
Overview: A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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