Biography
Roberto Benigny is a modern actor, producer, director and screenwriter, who is often called Italian Pierre Richarom because of the similarities in appearance and an amplua.
He makes the whole world laugh, and even about the fate of the prisoners of fascist concentration camps managed to tell with humor. Benigny's biography is a story of a complex and thorny way to success: from the poor Tuscan village - on the stage of the best theaters and the removal platforms of the great directories.
Childhood and youth
Roberto Remijio Benigny was born in the village of Manchano La Miserikhondi under Castillon Fiorentino on October 27, 1952. His mother was a bitter's mother, and Luigi's father worked in a handyman, running around around the district in search of temporary earnings. In addition to Roberto, they had another 3 daughters - Bruna, Anna and Albertin.
Over 9 years before the birth of the son of Luigi, I was pleased with Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (during the Mussolini regime, the tramps often fell there on espionage charges) and returned home exhausted and crippled. The family was so poor that junteled in the barrack without amenities.
"I would like to thank my parents, because they presented me a good gift - poverty," Gorky jumped Roberto in an interview.However, at the same time, Benigni had a cheerful temper and knew how to treat difficulties with humor: for example, about life in the Luigi concentration camp, he told so that the children laughed to tears, not even suspect which tragic reality lies behind the father's bikes.
Roberto grew proud and painful, but allocated among the peers in realness. At 13, the boy was sent to study in Florence, to the seminary of Jesuit. It was an honor for a leaving from such a poor family, but after 2 months Roberto decided to escape, because his soul did not lie at all to the sciences and religion.
It was partly to escape the famous flood in Florence - then due to the strong spill of the Arno River in the region, this disaster broke out, and the monks were not before searching for a runaway pupil. Benigny joined the local circus and got a job as an assistant illusionist.
By the age of 16, he was cooled and still engaged in education, enrolling in the Technical Commercial Institute in Prato, where there was an accounting case and stenograph in the company of almost some girls. There Roberto discovered the theater and soon in search of a better life went to Milan.
Theater
The first stage work of Benigni was the role in the play "Naked King". The debut was successful, and the young man went to the capital, where he began to participate in experimental productions as an actor and director. Colleagues first looked at the rural guy, but later saw his giftedness and willingly accepted into their circle.
In 1975, Roberto first tastes in reading comic monologues from the stage. The text Cioni Mario Di Gaspare Fu Giulia wrote Giuseppe Bertolucci for him, Brother of the famous director, and the success of a young artist turned out to be impressive. After that, Benigni continued to act in the role of a political comedian comedian. Its monologues were ironic, witty, and sometimes provocative.
Films
In 1977, a career of the Italian artist in the cinema began. The first role was the ambiguous character-lumpen in the film "Berlinguer, I love you." On the shooting sites, Roberto had a chance to work with Marco Frereri ("Wild Bed"), Bernardo Bertolucci ("Summer").
The shock for the actor was acquainted and subsequent cooperation with Federico Fellini:
"When I first saw his film, I got out of the cinema and decided to become ... a lawyer. I thought that it was impossible to create something as beautiful, "Roberto told.The actor Benigni became a real find for Jim Jarmushe, playing in 3 films, later became the key in his director's career. He was shot in the TV shows - "Free Wave", "Life of Jony", TV show "Other Sunday".
The director's work of Benigni begins in the 1990s. His paintings "Johnny Toothpick", "Chetten", "You are bothering me" in my native Italy turned out to be commercially successful.
International recognition came to him in 1997 with the film "Life is beautiful", where Roberto also acted as a screenwriter and the executor of the leading role. The young director managed to accommodate into his picture, it would seem that the incomparable things: the plot based on the events of the Holocaust, and the features of the modern comedy - a fun hero-plow and an optimistic name. The basis of the scenario was the very stories about the concentration camp, who in childhood told the little Roberto Father.
Soon an unusual picture conquered the whole world. The film gathered 3 Oscar awards, including the acting game, the Cannes Festival Grand Prix, the Premium of the British Academy and the Cesear award. Messenchak and Benigni bazen met the glory with all Italian passion: when he was declared the best actor, he rushed to the scene on the backs of his chairs, barely not advancing on the movie star sitting in front, fell to his knees of one of the ladies and made Salto Morthala in the aisle, and at the ceremony In Cannes, the boots of the director Martin Scorsese kissed.
In the following filmography, Roberto has not yet happened to other masterpieces. The following films, according to critics, differed a much smaller artistic value: "Tiger and snow" (2005) failed at the box office, and "Pinocchio" turned into a nomination for cinematographic anti-drug "Golden Malina".
In 2002, at the meeting of the Nobel Prize of the Benigni Prize, the "Man of the World" premium was presented. 4 years later, a new project was started - "All Dante" (Tuttodante), during which the Italian artist acted across Italy with artistic readings of the Divine Comedy. Later this work was shown on television and released on DVD in the form of monospectacle. In honor of the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Benigni spoke with a passage of the play in the Senate Hall.
In 2005, the actor became the Kavaler of the Big Cross of the Order "For Merit to the Italian Republic".
Personal life
The artist is married to the actress Nicolletta Braska, from whom he met in 1983 on the set of paintings "You are bothering me." In 1991, they played a secret wedding in the Kapuchin Monastery in Cesen. There are no children from the pair.
An actor's growth is 168 See the pages in "Instagram" and other social networks, it does not lead, preferring other methods of communication with fans. I don't like to tell my personal life.
Roberto Benigni now
One of the last acting works, Roberto became a role in the Roman adventures of Woody Allen, filmed in 2012. In 2018, he together with his wife took part in the opening of the 71st Cannes Film Festival - then the photo of the couple appeared in the media for the first time over the past few years.
After the celebration of the 65-year-old anniversary, he rarely appears in the public, but fans do not doubt that Benigni and now full of creative plans and will not surprise.
Filmography
- 1977 - "Berlinguer, I love you"
- 1979 - "Wild beds, or tigers in lipstick"
- 1979 - "Women's Light"
- 1981 - "Soup"
- 1983 - "Personal Things"
- 1983 - "You are bothering me"
- 1985 - "It remains only to cry"
- 1986 - "Out of Law"
- 1990 - "Moon's voice"
- 1991 - "Johnny Toothpick"
- 1991 - "Johnny Toothpick"
- 1997 - "Life is beautiful"
- 1999 - "Asterix and Obelix against Caesar"
- 2002 - "Pinocchio"
- 2005 - "Tiger and Snow"
- 2012 - "Roman Adventures"