Silvano Agosti
Silvano Agosti (born 23 March 1938) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, documentarist and film editor.
Also recorded as Aurelio Mangiarotti
Silvano Agosti

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- Born
- 23 March 1938
- Birthplace
- Brescia, Italy
- Occupation
- Screenwriter
- Nationality
- Italy.
- Fields
- film, belletristic literature and poetry.
- Education
- homeschooling and Experimental Centre of Cinematography.
- Known for
- Sweet War and Farewell.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Silvano Agosti (born 23 March 1938) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, documentarist and film editor.
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Biography
Biography
Silvano Agosti studied at homeschooling and Experimental Centre of Cinematography. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is film, belletristic literature and poetry. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Works named in the authority record are Sweet War, Farewell.

Italian director Silvano Agosti speaking in the "Lavoro, alienazione, umanità" event
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Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 23 March 1938 • Birthplace — Brescia, Italy • Occupation — Screenwriter
Life and career
Life and career
Born in Brescia, Agosti graduated in direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and specialized in editing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. After directing several shorts and serving as film editor in Marco Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket, he made his feature film debut in 1967 with Garden of Delights, which was heavily cut from censorship. In the following years he mostly focused on socio-political documentaries, dealing with themes such as the protests of 1968, of the resistance against the 'Colonels' regime in Greece, and the strategy of tension. In the second half of the 1970s, Agosti founded in Rome the cineclub Azzurro Scipioni, which became a reference point for art cinema filmmakers and film buffs. Known by Italians as a small Louvre of cinema. In 1987, his film Quartiere was entered into the main competition at the 44th Venice International Film Festival. In 1992, he won the Ciak d'Oro for best editing for his film Sweet War, Farewell. In 2019, he received the Nastro d'Argento Lifetime Achievement Award for his career. In addition to his film work, Agosti is also active as a novelist and poet.
Filmography
Filmography
• Garden of Delights (1967) • N.P. - Il segreto (1971) • Matti da slegare (1975, co-directed with Marco Bellocchio, Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli) • Skärseld (1975, co-directed with Michael Meschke and Orhan Oguz) • In the Highest of Skies (1977) • La macchina cinema (1978, co-directed with Marco Bellocchio, Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli) • D'amore si vive (1983) • L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984, co-director) • Quartiere (1987) • Sweet War, Farewell (1992) • L'uomo proiettile (1995) • La seconda ombra (2000) • La ragion pura (2001) • Il fascino dell'impossibile (2016) • Ora e sempre riprendiamoci la vita (2018)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
He also worked under the name Aurelio Mangiarotti. The authorities additionally record the heading Aurelio Mangiarotti. His recorded language was Italian.
Identity
Identity
Silvano Agosti is recorded as screenwriter, film producer, film director, film editor and poet.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1938
Silvano Agosti was born in 1938 at Brescia.
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- 1.Silvano Agosti. Locarno Festival.
- 2.Massimiliano. Silvano Agosti. Formacinema.
- 3.Redazione. Silvano Agosti. Sipario.
- 4.Il giardino delle delizie. Bologna Agenda Cultura.
- 5.Davide. Il giardino delle delizie - Recensione. Nocturno.
- 6.Paolo. '68: Ce n'est qu'un début. storia di un mondo in rivolta. Imprimatur editore. 2017-11-02. 978-88-275-0638-7.
- 7.Alekos Panagoulis - Altri seguiranno - di Silvano Agosti. Magazzini Inesistenti. 2015-07-05.
- 8.Agosti, Silvano in "Enciclopedia del Cinema".
- 9.11 Marzo Cinematografica - Italia - distribuzioni - industry. Filmitalia.
- 10.Enrico Lancia. Ciak d'oro.
- 11.Nino Dolfo. "L'eterno presente" di Agosti. BresciaOggi, Cultura. 17 maggio 2024.
- 12.Nicola Rocchi. Sguardo bambino e utopia nei versi di Silvano Agosti. Giornale di Brescia. 27 luglio 2024.
- 13.Out of Bounds, ecco tutti i premi assegnati.
- 14.Il triste annuncio del cinema Azzurro Scipioni. il manifesto. 2021-03-17.
- 15.Claudio Rinaldi. L’Azzurro Scipioni riapre a settembre Al via i lavori nella storica sala. Corriere della Sera. 2021-04-05.
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