Pietro Marcello | |
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Born | |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 2004–present |
Known for | Martin Eden |
Pietro Marcello (born 2 July 1976) is an Italian film director. [1] He has directed more than ten documentary and feature films since 2004. Several of his films have been presented at international film festivals and have received various awards and nominations.
In 2009, Marcello's docudrama The Mouth of the Wolf (La bocca del lupo) follows Vincenzo Motta, who served a long sentence in a Genoa prison, and his love history with a trans woman named Mary Monaco in prison, Mary promised to wait for Enzo once she gets out of prison, but shortly after they find a home to share, she became addicted to heroin. The film had its world premiere at the 2009 Torino Film Festival winning the FIPRESCI Prize for best film. And was also selected for the 60th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Caligari Film Award and the Teddy Award for best documentary. [2]
Martin Eden , based on Jack London's classic novel, sets the classic book themes and characters against a post-war Naples-set background. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 76th Venice International Film Festival, Marcello received nominations at the 33rd European Film Awards, 65th David di Donatello (winning Best Adapted Screenplay) [3] , Gotham Independent Film Awards 2020, and won the Platform Prize at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). [4]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | English title | Original title | Notes |
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2007 | Crossing the Line | Il passaggio della linea | Documentary |
2009 | The Mouth of the Wolf | La bocca del lupo | |
2011 | The Silence of Pelesjan | Il silenzio di Pelesjan | |
2015 | Lost and Beautiful | Bella e perduta | |
2019 | Martin Eden | Based on Martin Eden by Jack London | |
2021 | For Lucio | Per Lucio | Documentary |
Futura | Documentary; Co-directed with Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher | ||
2022 | Scarlet | L’envol | |
2024 | Duse † | Post-production [5] |
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