Raffaele Andreassi
Directing
Biography
Raffaele Andreassi (L'Aquila, 2 August 1924 - 20 November 2008) was an Italian film director most known for his movie Flashback from 1969. The movie is about a soldier in World War II and received many awards. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Golden Palm. Andreassi also did many documentaries during his director career. Andreassi began his career as a journalist in the late 1940s. He wrote in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the morning paper Giornale di Sicilia. Andreassi also published several collections of poems. He then devoted himself to writing screenplays for film, especially documentaries. His directorial debut was in 1955 with a comedy "Face rogue" in collaboration with Lance Comfort. In 1960 Andreassi received the Silver Berlin Bear for his short film "I vecchi". In 1968 he directed "Flashback", a war movie that has received the following awards: Golden Globe's Foreign Press, Grolla Silver premium (St. Vincent), Award of Tourism and Entertainment, Silverstar Festival San Francisco. The film was shown at Cannes where it was nominated for the Golden Palm and received standing ovations. After Flashback Andreassi collaborated with the most important sections of the RAI. From 1971 to 1975 he was artistic director of the Audiovisual Mondadori. From 1982 to 1983 he taught "techniques of documentary film" at DAMS in Bologna. In 1999 he wrote and directed the documentary "The wolves inside" with non-professional actors, a journey of the author himself in space and time. Andreassi died on 20 November 2008.
Known For
Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a human being into a sadistic murderer and rapist.
Flashback
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
The Knight is Here
We are in the Gargano, where the Sunday dish is the “maccaruni” seasoned with pieces of meat, and for the rest of the week you have to settle for the pancotto made from stale bread with chicory, fava beans and potatoes (a poor dish that today sometimes passes for refined delicacy).
I Maccheroni
Mondo documentary.
I piaceri proibiti
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Capitali a confronto: Il ventre della città
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Capitali a confronto: Il fiume e la città
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Epilogo
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Documenti di storia e di cronaca n. 3: La battaglia d'Inghilterra
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Incontri 1969 - Massimo Campigli nel labirinto dell'anima
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Self portrait
A documentary without a narrator on certain episodes of superstition and magical rituals in Rome.
Gli stregoni
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Capitali a confronto: Le periferie
A Silver Bear winning short animation.
I vecchi
Fog, Raffaele Andreassi, 1962
Nebbia
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La Napoli di Marotta
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De Chirico metafisico
Simone Martini, from Siena, is the painter who took the school in his city to the maximum in terms of musicality and colorful charm. A friend of Petrarch and other greats of his time, he left the mark of his genius in Tuscany, Umbria and Naples.
Simone Martini
A girl walks into a house, in order to pose nude for a portrait.
Agnese
The sea, with its storms, which break and break the waves against the sharp rocks, is the fulcrum of the life of the people of Gallura in Sardinia, where nature exerts an indisputable predominance and penetrates human activities.
Racconto del mare
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