Nelo Risi
Nelo Risi | |
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 Risi in 1991 | |
| Born | 21 April 1920 |
| Died | 17 September 2015(aged 95) Rome,Italy |
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| Spouse | Edith Bruck |
Nelo Risi(21 April 1920 – 17 September 2015) was an Italian poet, film director, translator and screenwriter, nephew of cinematographerFernando Risiand younger brother of directorDino Risi.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born inMilan,Risi graduated in medicine, as did his brotherDino,then with the outbreak of theSecond World Warhe fought on the Russian front and was interned inSwitzerland.[2]He started his poetical production in 1941, with the collectionLe opere e i giorni.[2]With the end of the war he moved toPariswhere he joined a group of filmmakers, led by the AmericansRichard LeacockandJohn Ferno,engaged in documenting the disaster of the war in Europe through a series of human-geography documentary films.[3]During this time Risi also published his second collection of poems (L'esperienza,1948) and worked as a translator of poetry works byPierre Jean Jouve,Constantine P. Cavafy,Sophocles,Jules Laforgueand others.[2]
Back in Italy in 1954, he directed a dozen documentary films on popular figures and moments in the history of the twentieth century.[3]He made his feature film debut in 1961, with a segment of the filmLe italiane e l'amore;the same year he started his long collaboration withRAI.[4]During his film career Risi won twoNastro d'Argento,in 1960 for the direction of the short filmThe Brothers Rosselli(1959) and in 1970 for the screenplay ofDiary of a Schizophrenic Girl.[5]In 1970 he also won theViareggio Prizefor his poetry collectionDi certe cose che dette in versi suonano meglio che in prosa.[6]His poetry style is referred as "poetics of the usual" (poetica dell'usuale), in reference of the attempt of grasping the contradictions and the mystifications of everyday life through a basic, simple language, close to a diaristic style.[4][7]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Andremo in città(1966)
- Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl(1968)
- Dead of Summer(1970)
- A Season in Hell(1971)
- The Infamous Column(1973)
References
[edit]- ^"Esplora il significato del termine: Morto a 95 anni il poeta e regista Nelo Risi: era il fratello di DinoMorto a 95 anni il poeta e regista Nelo Risi: era il fratello di Dino"(in Italian). Corriere. 18 September 2015.Retrieved18 September2015.
- ^abcJohn Picchione, Lawrence R. Smith (January 1993).Twentieth-century Italian poetry: an anthology.University of Toronto Press, 1993.ISBN0802073689.
- ^abMarco Bertozzi (2008).Storia del documentario italiano.Marsilio, 2008.ISBN978-8831795531.
- ^ab"Risi, Nelo".Enciclopedia Italiana.Retrieved16 August2013.
- ^Enrico Lancia (1998).I premi del cinema.Gremese Editore, 1998.ISBN8877422211.
- ^AA. VV.Tutto - Poesia italiana del Novecento.De Agostini, 2011.ISBN8841869216.
- ^Giuseppe Zagarrio (1983).Febbre, furore e fiele.Mursia, 1983.ISBN8842590843.
