Marco Ferreri

• Name — Marco Ferreri • Born — 11 May 1928 • Birthplace — Milan, Lombardy, Italy • Died — 9 May 1997 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — * Director • screenwriter • actor • Spouse — Jacqueline Lamothe • Illustration — Ferreri in 1953

He was born in Milan. His best known film is La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast, 1973) about four successful men who meet in a villa with the purpose to eat themselves to death. It starred Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi. He was a socialist and an atheist. He died in Paris of a heart attack. 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."

• El pisito (1958) • Los chicos (1959) • El cochecito (1960) • Una storia moderna: l’ape regina (The Conjugal Bed, 1963) • La donna scimmia (The Ape Woman, 1964) • L'uomo dei cinque palloni (1965) • L'Harem (1967) • The Seed of Man (1969) • Dillinger è morto (Dillinger Is Dead, 1969) • The Audience (1972) • Liza (in French; Italian version title La cagna, 1972) • La Grande Bouffe (in French and Italian; Italian dubbed version title La grande abbuffata, 1973) • Touche pas à la femme blanche (in French; Italian dubbed version title Non toccare la donna bianca, released in English as Don't Touch The White Woman!, 1974) • La Dernière femme (in French; Italian dubbed version title L'ultima donna, international version title The Last Woman, 1976) • Ciao maschio (in Italian and French, French dubbed version title Rêve du singe, English version title Bye Bye Monkey, 1978) • Chiedo asilo (1979) (English dubbed version title Seeking Asylum, 1980) • Tales of Ordinary Madness (in English; Italian dubbed version title Storie di ordinaria follia, 1981) • Storia di Piera (The Story of Piera, 1983) • Il futuro è donna (The Future Is Woman, 1984) • I Love You (1986) • Ya bon les blancs (Italian dubbed version title Come sono buoni i bianchi!, 1988) • La banquette (Italian title: Il banchetto di Platone, 1989) • La casa del sorriso (The House of Smiles, 1991) • La carne (also screenwriter) (1991) • Diario di un vizio (Diary of a Maniac, 1993) • Faictz ce que vouldras (1994) • Nitrato d'argento (1996)

• The Beach (1954) • Women and Soldiers (1954) • Casanova 70 (1967) • The Seventh Floor (1967) • Pigsty (1969) • So Long Gulliver (1970) • Non toccare la donna bianca (1973) • An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) (uncredited)