The filmmaker Cecilia Mangini, a pioneer of documentary in Italy, handed away right now at the age of 93, after a profession that made her a benchmark in non-fiction cinema and that saved her energetic till 2020.
Mangini was honored final September at the Seville European Movie Competition, through which her newest work, Due scatole dimenticate (2020), premiered.
Born in 1927 in Mola di Bari (Apulia, southern Italy), Mangini grew up in fascist Italy, however developed an anarchist ideology and infused her work with libertarian concepts towards social inequality and conservatism in her nation.
With All’armi siam fascisti! (1962), a declared anti-fascist movie, reached the Venice Movie Competition, sparking controversy for its denunciation of the collusion between fascism and the Church.
Two years later he printed Essere donne, the first documentary movie that recounted the scenario of girls in Italy in these years.
She collaborated with nice voices from the Italian documentary world, similar to her husband Lino del Fra, and amongst others with the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose novel Ragazzi di vita (1955) about the boys of the harsh Roman periphery she tailored in the quick documentary Ignoti alla città (1958), her directorial debut.
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