Valentino Orsini
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Valentino Orsini was an Italian film director.
After his first interests to arts (he had been sculptor, stage designer, cinema critic, cineclub animator) in his hometown, in 1954 Valentino Orsini directed with the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
(born in the near small city of San Miniato
) the documentary San Miniato: luglio 1944. After other documentaries, most with Taviani brothers, he realized his first fiction films in 1962 and in 1963, both with the two brothers. After other documentaries Orsini directed his first fiction film alone, I dannati della terra in 1969. Despite his few fiction films (but he realized a lot of documentaries all around the world) Orsini is highly considered for his role in renewing Italian cinema in 1960s and 70s, facing subjects such as the peasants' fights in Sicily, the divorce, the under-developed countries. More, he was a teacher at Italian Cinema National School. In his last films his civil commitment was less present.
After his first interests to arts (he had been sculptor, stage designer, cinema critic, cineclub animator) in his hometown, in 1954 Valentino Orsini directed with the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters...
(born in the near small city of San Miniato
San Miniato
San Miniato is a town and comune in the province of Pisa, in the region of Tuscany, Italy.San Miniato sits at an historically strategic location atop three small hills where it dominates the lower Arno valley between the valleys of Egola and Elsa...
) the documentary San Miniato: luglio 1944. After other documentaries, most with Taviani brothers, he realized his first fiction films in 1962 and in 1963, both with the two brothers. After other documentaries Orsini directed his first fiction film alone, I dannati della terra in 1969. Despite his few fiction films (but he realized a lot of documentaries all around the world) Orsini is highly considered for his role in renewing Italian cinema in 1960s and 70s, facing subjects such as the peasants' fights in Sicily, the divorce, the under-developed countries. More, he was a teacher at Italian Cinema National School. In his last films his civil commitment was less present.
Filmography
- Un uomo da bruciare (Italy, 1962): in collaboration with Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- I fuori legge del matrimonio (Italy, 1963): in collaboration with Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- I dannati della terra (Italy, 1969)
- Corbari (Italy, 1970)
- L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore (Italy/France/West Germany, 1971)
- Uomini e no (Italy, 1980)
- Figlio mio, infinitamente caro... (Italy, 1985)