The filmmaker, with a strong character and devastating humor, began her career in the 1960s as an assistant to Federico Fellini.
The Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, “The first female director nominated for an Oscar”, as the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini recalled, He died at the age of 93 in Rome early Thursday morning, official sources reported.
“Italy regrets the disappearance of Lina Wertmüller, a director who with her class and her inimitable style has left a lasting mark on our cinematography and worldwide”, the minister wrote in a statement.
The filmmaker, with a strong character and devastating humor, began her career in the 1960s as an assistant to Federico Fellini in the film 8 1/2.
With Liliana Cavani, another of the few women who shone in Italian cinema in the 1960-70s, went down in history for a series of four films starring Giancarlo Giannini, between them Pasqualino Seven beauties (1976), film nominated for an Oscar in four categories.
With his movie Metallurgical Mimi, wounded in his honor (1972), a satire directed at the mafia and against Sicilian customs and Love and anarchy, confirmed his political view of the world, addressing with originality issues such as feminism, anarchy, rich and communists.
In 1974, always starring Giannini, he released one of his most famous films, An unusual summer adventure, a satirical comedy in which the war of the sexes and the class struggle converge.
In 2019 he received an honorary Oscar for his career.
Born in Rome on August 14, 1928, Lina Wertmüller, whose full name was Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich, began her career in 1963 with the film, “I basilischi”, a neorealist-inspired work awarded at the Swiss festival from Locarno. (I)
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