Alberto Moravia
Also Known As: Alberto Pincherle
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alberto Moravia (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto moˈraːvja]; November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris (Contempt 1963); La Noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio de Sica as Two Women (1960). Cedric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La Noia.
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Birthday: November 28, 1907
Deathday: September 26, 1990
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Gender: Male
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Cinéma et Réalité
Overview: In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Savage Man Savage Beast
Overview: A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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Suffocating Heat
Overview: On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-08-26
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Io sono nata viaggiando
Overview: A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thirty years ago.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-11
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Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
Overview: Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-28
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Overview: A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-08
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Monastero di Santa Chiara
Overview: Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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The Olympian
Overview: Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Love Meetings
Overview: Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-05
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Umano non umano
Overview: Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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Second Look: Fellini
Overview: A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films; Episode 3: His Films with Giulietta Masina; Episode 4: "La dolce vita" and Neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
Overview: Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-01
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Alcune Afriche
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-01
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