Marco Ferreri
Gender: Male
Born: 11th May 1928
Died: 9th May 1997
Nationality: Italy
Movies: Break Up, Bye Bye Monkey, Diario di un vizio, Diary of a Maniac, Dillinger Is Dead, Don't Touch The White Woman!, El cochecito, El pisito, House Of Smiles, How Good the Whites Are, I Love You, Il seme dell'uomo, L'udienza, La Dernière femme, La Grande Bouffe, Liza, Marcia nuziale, Seeking Asylum, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Ape Woman, The Conjugal Bed, The Flesh, The Future Is Woman, The Man, the Woman and the Money, The Seed of Man, The Story of Piera
Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema has lost one of its most original artists, one of its most personal authors (...) No one was more demanding nor more allegorical than he in showing the state of crisis of contemporary man. His best known film is La Grande Bouffe, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi.
His 1979 film Chiedo asilo won him the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1991, his film La casa del sorriso won the Golden Bear at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Two years later, his film Diario di un vizio was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
He was an atheist.
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