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Ferzan Ozpetek
Ad occhi aperti
[English & Italian Text]



Edited By Laura Delli Colli
January 2009
Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9788837068301
80 Pages, 80 Illustrations

$57.50 Hardcover


Born in Istanbul in 1959 by manufacturer father and a mother who loves art, he moved to Rome to join the university, go to the cinema and discover the world of shows and attended the Academy of dramatic art, and after four years of Rome finally arrives on a real set. It is the beginning of a rich career. In all these years he has worked with personalities like Tognazzi, Petri, Nuti, Risi, players such as Alessandro Gasman, Margherita Buy, Raul Bova, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Isabella Ferrari. His last film, presented in competition at Venice 65esima the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica of 2008, is "One day a perfect one," with Stefania Sandrelli, from the novel by Melania Mazzucco. "Ferzan Ozpetek is a man without age. Has the availability, the wonder, the enthusiasm of a child and at the same depth, the instinct, seriousness of an essay. He look sharp, intelligent, sensitive, aware as aa apologize to look because he understood everything about you. A look safe. Pure, powerful, and together, sweet. Looking fatal, disarmingly, that when the meetings that you'll need to know delivered to him. " (Stefania Sandrelli)


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