Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni , born the October 27th 1952 with Castiglion Fiorentino, is an actor and realizer of cinema and television Italian of world famous.

Its childhood

Fourth wire of Luigi Benigni (1918-2004) and Isolina Papini (1918-2004), Roberto Benigni was born in a modest Tuscan family. Only sons after three sisters with a enjoué and expansive character, he moves with all his family with Vergaio where all its family of origin saw. Registered in a Florentin seminar which it gives up after the invasion of November 4th, 1966, it follows his studies in the technical-commercial institute Datini di Prato. But its greater passion is the spectacle. After being itself made known in Italy as singer and musician, thanks to a bawdy song which he interpreted in the sulfurous Televacca emission, he went up on scene for the first time in 1972, and hardly twenty years afterwards, he is with the theater Mitastasio di Prato with the spectacle the naked king of Eugenij Schwarz, directed by Paolo Magelli. He makes the knowledge with Florence de Donato Sannini and of Carlo Monni, which urge it to interpret the shape of spectacles of street. In autumn 1972, it leaves for Rome and is devoted during three years to the experimental theater while collaborating mainly with Lucia Poli in the company Beat' 72 in the theater of the satires, and while taking part in various spectacles.

Cinematographic career

In 1975, it makes the meeting, fundamental for its career, of Giuseppe Bertolucci which writes a monolog Cioni Mario to him di Gaspare was Giulia: it obtains a great success, initially with the Alberico theater of Rome then on all the Italian scenes. This character of a peasant Tuscan, mainly autobiographical, contains already the ambivalence which will characterize its interpretations thereafter: on a side irresistible a exubérance gestural and especially verbal, other an almost infantile ingenuous frankness which often lets show through a vein of surrealist and melancholic person poetry. The image of first Benigni is thus formed on a not very convenient character and rebel, fears on a side but liked other, unforeseeable and able permanently to surprise and even sometimes to shock. Appeared with a manifestation of the Italian Communist party, it took in its arms the general secretary Enrico Berlinguer, gesture at one time when the Italian politicians were famous for their serious and their formality. He will collaborate once again with Bertolucci in 1986 with an anthology of spectacles held with comic in the streets and the theaters, Tuttobenigni. It is via Bertolucci that Benigni comes into contact with the director Vincenzo Cerami with whom it will continue his career. He continues his career with supporting roles as in Chiedo asilo of Marco Ferreri in 1978 when he incarnates a strange professor of the schools. Benigni is illustrated in several comic films, like Night one Earth of Jim Jarmusch (1991) in which his character driver of Taxi confession with a customer, catholic priest, his sexual experiments. In 1983, it begins its career of cinematographic realizer with You semi turbi film in four episodes. The film was appreciated by the public and the critics. It is on this film that it meets Nicoletta Braschi which will become his wife on December 26th, 1991. As from this moment, it will be present in almost all films of her husband. Then there obtain a success with Non Ci remained che piangere in 1984 when many gags are found. In 1997, it joined the international dedication with the life is beautiful , which tells the tragedy of the Holocauste. This film tells the history of an Italian Jewish family separated by the Nazis. Once in the Concentration camp, the character of Benigni manages to save his son while making him believe that they play play, and to gain, the son must comply with all the rules of them. Benigni, wire of a ex-deportee will defend his choice for this so delicate topic but with a different approach: the tragi-comic one anything else makes only accentuate the dramatic intensity and the emotion of certain scenes. The film is named seven times at the Oscars 1999 and gains three Oscars: that of the best band its for Nicola Piovani, that of best foreign film and that of the best main actor. Benigni is the first not Anglo-Saxon to be gained in this category and he is the only actor to have gained such a price while being realizer of this one. The moment when Benigni received its price remained memorable, from the explosion of its joy, which, to the advertisement of its name jumped on the seats before going up on scene. This impromptu gag as its speech of thanks in English particularly returned it sympathetic nerve to the eyes of American. In addition to the Oscars, the film attracted itself praises: five money ribbons, nine David de Donatello and the prestigious Grand Prix of the Jury of the Cannes festival where unchained Benigni prosterna with the feet of the president of the ceremony Martin Scorsese. Immediately after this colossal success, one found it in Astérix and Obélix against César of Claude Zidi, in the role of Refuse the adviser of César, at the side of Gerard Depardieu and Laeticia Casta amongst other things. In 2001, it began the realization of Pinocchio left the following year. It is about the most expensive film of all the history of the Italian cinema. In 2004, it produces, written and directs its eighth film the tiger and snow left in 2005. They are here still topics which one finds in the life is beautiful (a man unspecified, jovial which falls in love with a woman), but this time, the history occurs during the Guerre from Iraq after the fall from the mode from Saddam Hussein. This film is once more an anthem with the life and the love of life.

It is necessary to quote the book: Roberto Benigni, portrait writes by Rene Marx and published with the Editions Henri Berger, it is the only existing French work on this artist.

Catalog of films

Quotation

  • “Jesus invented the not involved love. You will say to me that the love existed already. It is true. The waves of radio and television they also always existed, but if somebody had not discovered them, we would never have known it” (February 17th, 2006)
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