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Mario Martone
Italian film director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959) is an Italian filmmaker. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His films have been shown in prestigious international film festivals over the world.
His films Nasty Love (1995) and Nostalgia (2022) were selected competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.[1] While Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992), The Vesuvians (1997), We Believed (2010), Leopardi (2014), Capri-Revolution (2018), The Mayor of Rione Sanità (2019) and The King of Laughter (2021) were selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
For Nostalgia, Martone won his first Nastro d'Argento for Best Director in 2022.[2]
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He is also a noted stage director for operas. He staged the premiere performance of Lorenzo Ferrero's opera Charlotte Corday, which opened at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on 21 February 1989.
Martone has since also staged three new productions of Gioachino Rossini's operas in the Rossini Opera Festival: Matilde di Shabran (2004, 2012), Torvaldo e Dorliska (2006, 2017), Aureliano in Palmira (2014, 2023).[3][4][5]
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