Armand Gatti
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| Born | 26 January 1924 |
| Died | 6 April 2017 (aged 93) |
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| Years active | 1960–2012 |
Armand Gatti (French: [aʁmɑ̃ ɡati]; 26 January 1924 – 6 April 2017) was a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter.[1] His debut film Enclosure was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver Prize for Best Director.[2] Two years later, his film El Otro Cristóbal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Personal life
According to his 1989 biographer, Dorothy Knowles, Gatti was born in 1924 in a shantytown in Monaco to Auguste Rainier an Italian anarchist from Piedmont, who escaped murder in a Chicago slaughterhouse because of his political activities and fled Benito Mussolini's regime and to Letizia Lusona a maid.[4]
He died on 6 April 2017.[5]
Gatti, like his father, was an anarchist. His works included themes of prisons and escape.[6]
Theatrical works
- 1957 Le Poisson noir (awarded Fénéon Prize)
- 1962 La vie imaginaire de l'éboueur Auguste G
- 1966 Chant public devant deux chaises électriques
- 1975 Die Hälfte des Himmels und wir (La Moitié du ciel et nous) - Forum Theater Berlin[7]
Filmography
- 1960 Moranbong, une aventure coréenne (writer only)
- 1961 Enclosure
- 1963 El Otro Cristóbal
- 1968 Das imaginäre Leben des Straßenkehrers Auguste G. (writer only)
- 1970 Der Übergang über den Ebro
- 1983 Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres
References
- ^ Banham (1998, 413).
- ^ "2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: El Otro Cristóbal". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
- ^ Lafosse, Philippe (February 2001). "Eloge de la révolution". monde-diplomatique.fr. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
- ^ "Armand Gatti, miroir éclaté des utopies". Le Monde.fr (in French). 6 April 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ^ Cohn, Jesse (2015). Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011. AK Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-84935-201-7.
- ^ Reznikoff, Jorinde (22 January 2024), "Armand Gatti", Der Graue Blog (in German), Germany, archived from the original on 16 September 2022, retrieved 22 January 2024
Sources
- Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-521-43437-8.