Farewell to Lina Wertmüller, the extraordinary director of unforgettable films like Overwhelmed by an unusual fate in the blue August sea e Pasqualino Settebellezze, passed away at 93.
The director, born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmuller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich, died in her Roman home. A friend of the family broke the news via social media. She was born in the capital on August 14, 1928.
The first woman to be nominated as a director for an Oscar in 1977 with the film starring Giancarlo Giannini, in 2019 she obtained the honorary Oscar. «I dedicate the Oscar to my husband Enrico, to my daughter Maria Zulina, who came to me very well», he had said on receiving it, from the hands of Sophia Loren, «And I thank America. America is a serious thing, we are a little boot, this is a continent, there is no proportion… so I thank America, all those who loved my films, who are all like my children. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of passion … and now I salute you, but you have to shout all together “We want an Oscar named Anna” “.
The cinema in her life had arrived only after a long period of theater and then television in which she had been the author of the first edition of Canzonissima and the drama Gian Burrasca’s newspaper, with Rita Pavone protagonist in the role of the little plague.
Then the help role of Federico Fellini. His first film as a director arrives in 1963: The basilisks, winner of an award at the Locarno Film Festival. From there the partnership with Giancarlo Giannini: Metallurgical Mimì wounded in honor , Love and anarchy film – Or “This morning at 10 in via dei Fiori in the well-known brothel …” , Overwhelmed by an unusual fate in the blue August sea (1974), Pasqualino Settebellezze, The end of the world in our usual bed on a rainy night (1978) e Made of blood between two men for the sake of a widow.
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