Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈnanni moˈretti]; born 19 August 1953; Brunico) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. The Palme d'Or winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for "The Son's Room", a Silver Bear at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival for "The Mass is Ended" and a Silver Lion at the 1981 Venice Film Festival for "Sweet Dreams", in addition to the David di Donatello Award for Best Film on three occasions (for "Caro diario" in 1994, "The Son's Room" in 2001 and "Il caimano" in 2006). Moretti was born in Bruneck, Italy to Roman parents who were both teachers. His father was the late epigraphist Luigi Moretti, a Greek teacher at Sapienza University of Rome. His brother is literary scholar Franco Moretti. While growing up Moretti discovered his two passions, the cinema and water polo. Having finished his studies he pursued a career as a producer, and in 1973 directed his first two short films: Pâté de bourgeois and The Defeat (La sconfitta). In 1976, Nanni Moretti's first feature film Io sono un autarchico (I Am Self-Sufficient) was released. In 1978, he wrote, directed and starred in the movie Ecce Bombo, which tells the story of a student having problems with his entourage. It was screened at the Cannes Festival. Sogni d'oro won the Silver Lion at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. La messa è finita won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. He may be best known for his films Caro diario (Dear Diary, 1993; followed in 1998 by a sequel, Aprile) and La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room, 2001), the latter of which won the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Moretti has used certain actors several times in his films, generally playing minor roles. His father Luigi appears in 6 films, Dario Cantarelli and Mauro Fabretti in 5, Antonio Petrocelli in 4. More notable Italian actors he has employed frequently in his films include Silvio Orlando, who appears in 5 films (including the role of protagonist in Il caimano) and Laura Morante, who was featured in Sogni d'oro, Bianca and The Son's Room.[citation needed]. Having played waterpolo in the B division of the Italian championship, his experience later inspired his film Palombella Rossa ("palombella," which literally means "little pigeon," refers to a type of lob shot). His other work has not been widely seen outside Europe, but within his country Moretti is known as a maker of wryly humorous and eccentric films, usually starring himself. His most recent role was in the film Mia Madre (My Mother, 2015) Moretti is also an outspoken political leftist. In 2002, he organized street protests against the government of Silvio Berlusconi. Il caimano (2006) is in part about Berlusconi's controversies: in one of the three portraits of the Italian prime minister Moretti himself plays Berlusconi. Aprile also deals with Italy's political situation and Moretti's views on it. His 2011 film We Have a Pope screened In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
To Each His Own Cinema
as Nanni Moretti (segment "Diario di uno spettatore")Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema"...
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A Brighter Tomorrow
as GiovanniAn old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in...
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The Son's Room
as GiovanniA psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a...
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The Caiman
as Nanni Moretti / Silvio BerlusconiBruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a...
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Bianca
as Michele ApicellaEccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as...
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Santiago, Italia
as SelfAfter the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago...
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Caro diario
as Nanni MorettiNanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic...
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Palombella Rossa
as Michele ApicellaMichele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice....
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We Have a Pope
as Dott. BrezziThe newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have...
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The Mass Is Ended
as Don GiulioThe young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don...
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Padre Padrone
as CesareThe true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed...
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Sweet Dreams
as Michele ApicellaMichele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a...
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The Hummingbird
as Daniele CarradoriEveryone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married...
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Three Floors
as VittorioFollows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
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Mia madre
as GiovanniMargherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable...
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Ecce Bombo
as Michele ApicellaMichele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the...
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Quiet Chaos
as Pietro PaladiniPietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save...
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Aprile
as SelfNanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a...
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We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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Three Lives and Only One Death
as uncreditedFour intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by...
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I Am Self-Sufficient
as Michele ApicellaMichele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife...
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his...
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A Special Day
as SelfAt the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.
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Girlfriend in a Coma
as HimselfGirlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and...
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The Yes Man
as Cesare BoteroCesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite...
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or
as SelfFrom Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the...
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It's Happening Tomorrow
as Matteo, il carbonaio1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their...
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I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto
as SelfVarious generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.
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Opening Day of Close-Up
as HimselfAt his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the...
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Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
as SelfA documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).
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The Second Time
as Alberto SajevoA convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without...
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Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
as SelfA selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".
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Evviva Giuseppe
as HimselfThe life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.
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Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
as uncreditedDocumentary by Marco Spagnoli.
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Las Leonas
as Sé stessoThe story of a group of women immigrants in Rome, the majority from South America, working as...
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as SelfA documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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How Do You Speak, Brother?
as Don RodrigoA parody of Manzoni's canonical 19th-century novel "I promessi sposi" (The Bethroded) from the...
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Dalla quercia alla palma - 40 anni di Padre Padrone
as HimselfMemories and anecdotes of the making of "Padre Padrone"
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Venanzio Revolt: I miei primi 80 anni di cinema
as NarratorThe producer and writer from Turin, Lorenzo Ventavoli, talks to his friend, the critic Steve...
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An Autarchic at 'Palazzo'
as HimselfA short about the film "I Am Self-Sufficient"
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Film Quiz
as HimselfNanni Moretti speaks of the forty films that have inspired him.
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Defeat
as uncreditedDemonstrations of metalworkers, students, and their allies on the left, seen from the point of...
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Riso in bianco – Nanni Moretti atleta di se stesso
as SelfPart interview, part monologue, part documentary with Nanni Moretti talking about his work.
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The Last Championship
as SelfDocumentary by Moretti (later to become “Palombella rossa”) about his last competitive waterpolo...
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