Michelangelo Antonioni (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Born September 29, 1912 in the provincial Ferrara (Italy), in a family of average means. In Bologna, he graduated from the Higher School of Economics and Commerce, at the same time drawing, and wrote critical articles for local newspapers. In 1939 Antoninoni arrived in Rome, has collaborated with the magazines "Cinema" and "Bianco e nero", he studied directing schools film school in. In 1942 he was a director, an intern at the Marcel Carnц? while filming "Evening Visitor. He soon made friends with the young directors of the emerging Italian neorealism, participated in the creation of movie script, Giuseppe De Santis' Tragic Hunt (1947), was one of the authors of realist painting of Federico Fellini's "The White Sheik" (1952). Antonioni's directorial debut was the documentary film "People of the Po River" (begun in 1943, completed in 1947), his first feature film - "Chronicle of a Love", released in 1950. Then he took a few pictures, which brought him fame - "Lady without Camelias," "Girlfriends," "Scream". The recognition of the wide popularity and came to the director in 1960, after the movie "Adventure", "Night", "Eclipse", "Red Desert". On the crest of this success Antonioni set in 1966 in the UK film "Blow-Up" ( "Blow-Up"), was awarded the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The interest of viewers and critics called his paintings "Zabriskie Point" (1970) and "Profession: Reporter" (1975). One of the last works of Michelangelo Antonioni, the French critics called a "poet of alienation and uncommunicativeness", was tape "Beyond the Clouds" - four dramatic stories, directed by his book. In working on this film also participated Wim Wenders.