Ettore Scola: the master of the Italian comedy – El Universal (Venezuela)

Italy .- The Italian film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola, director of films like Una giornata particolare and La famiglia , has died in hospital Polyclinic of Rome, 84 years old, local media reported.

The director was one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, he said his death “leaves a huge void in the Italian culture.”

Scola, winner of the Best Screenplay at Cannes in 1980 for La Terrazza , worked with some of the most prominent representatives of the Alpine country cinema, like Marcello Mastroianni Vittorio Gassman and Sophia Loren, was recognized as one of the creators of modern Italian comedy.

Ettore Scola began writing screenplays in the fifties, before moving on the other side of the camera in 1964 with his first film If you allow it, let’s talk about women , with the participation of Gassman, Mastroianni and Manfredi.

But it was with The sheriff Pepe (1969) and Dramma della gelosia – Tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970) Scola enters the period important of his career. In 1974 he directs the film We had loved so much , with reviewing the Italian history from 1945-1975 through the story of three friends, played by Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi and Stefano Satta Flores, the three love with Luciana (Stefania Sandrelli). A film that establishes him as one of the greats of Italian cinema, and the following titles like Gross, ugly and bad (1976), with which participates in Cannes, and A special day (1977) with Sophia Loren and Mastroianni, definitely his most acclaimed film.

With the film Unfair Competition , 2001, and set during the time of fascism, Ettore Scola said he had thus concluded its activity as a director. Only a short time later presented two documentaries he had made before: one devoted to Roma, People of Rome , and one dedicated to one of his great friends, with whom he had worked, Strange Federico called .

Ettore Scola was married to the set designer and scriptwriter Gigliola Scola, who had two daughters, Paola and Silvia, and those presented in November, the Feast of Rome a documentary that recounts his life and career on camera. Ridendo and scherzando

On that occasion he said: “Film is hard work, but through it can, laughing and joking, send a message that, like a postcard and can also carry a worldview. The film is like a beacon that illuminates the great things in life. “