Armand Gatti
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- Playwright
- poet
- journalist
- screenwriter
- filmmaker
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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]
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
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