Marcello Mastroianni
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USAMarcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionett- Csak tiéd szívem (1939), then started working for the Italian department of "Eagle Lion Films" in Rome and joined a drama club, where he was discovered by director Luchino Visconti. In 1957 Visconti gave him the starring part in his Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation Fehér éjszakák (1957) and in 1958 he was fine as a little thief in Mario Monicelli's comedy Ismerős ismeretlenek (1958). But his real breakthrough came in 1960, when Federico Fellini cast him as an attractive, weary-eyed journalist of the Rome jet-set in Az édes élet (1960); that film was the genesis of his "Latin lover" persona, which Mastroianni himself often denied by accepting parts of passive and sensitive men. He would again work with Fellini in several major films, like the exquisite 8 és 1/2 (1963) (as a movie director who finds himself at a point of crisis) and the touching Ginger és Fred (1986) (as an old entertainer who appears in a TV show). He also appeared as a tired novelist with marital problems in Michelangelo Antonioni's Az éjszaka (1961), as an impotent young man in Mauro Bolognini's A szép Antonio (1960) , as an exiled prince in John Boorman's Az utolsó Leó (1970), as a traitor in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Allonsanfan (1974) and as a sensitive homosexual in love with a housewife in Ettore Scola's Egy különleges nap (1977). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Válás olasz módra (1961), Egy különleges nap (1977), and Fekete szemek (1987). During the last decade of his life he worked with directors, like Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bertrand Blier and Raoul Ruiz, who gave him three excellent parts in Három élet, egy halál (1996). He died of pancreatic cancer in 1996.
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