Cult coomedy screenwriter, producer
and director Enrico Vanzina is to get a special David di
Donatello award for his career achievement at the 68th edition
of the Italian Oscars on May 10, Italian Cinema Academy
President and Artistic Director Piera Detassis announced
Tuesday.
Vanzina, 74, brother of the late director Carlo and son of the
great Commedia all'italians director Steno, "is a screenwriter,
producer, director and writer of successful novels, a liberal
cinephile, cultivated and lightning fast in lampooning the vices
and manias of Italian life," said Detassis.
"Enrico Vanzina with his father Steno wrote the cult film Febbre
da cavallo (Horse Fever, 1976), with his brother Carlo, director
and accomplice of a whole professional life, and sealed exactly
40 years ago the explosive success of two seminal films, Vacanze
di Natale and Sapore di Mare", she added.
"The author of more than 100 screenplays, in tandem with Carlo
he contributed to films ((Yuppies, Le finte bionde,
Eccezzziunale…veramente) that indelibly fix the sense of an era
without fearing pop. The award to Enrico Vanzina wants to be a
celebration of the multi-facetted author as well as an
affectionate tribute to an artistic family of great weavers of
Italian comedy, inventors of genres that have become part of our
DNA as spectators".
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