Emidio Greco

Emidio Greco (20 October 1938 – 22 December 2012) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, best known for the 1974 film Morel's Invention.

Emidio Greco
Born	(1938-10-20)20 October 1938 Leporano, Italy
Died	22 December 2012(2012-12-22) (aged 74) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1974-2012

Life and career

Born in Leporano, in the province of Taranto, Greco moved in Turin as a child.^[1][2] In 1964 he graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, then, two years later, he started an activity as documentarist for RAI TV.^[1] In 1971 he attended Roberto Rossellini accompanying him in Chile for a filmed interview with Salvador Allende.^[1] In 1974 Greco made his directorial debut in a feature film with Morel's Invention that, well-received from critics, marked him as a real promise in Italian art cinema.^[1] His second film, Ehrengard, filmed in 1982, would be released just in 2002 due to the bankruptcy of the producers;^[1] from then he directed six more films, mainly literary works adaptations.^[1] In 1991 he was awarded with a Nastro d'Argento award for best screenplay for the film A Simple Story.^[3]

In 2004 Greco, together with Francesco Maselli, founded and organized the "Giornate degli Autori" section at the Venice Film Festival.^[1][2] He died in Rome at 74 after a brief illness.^[1][4]

Filmography

• Morel's Invention (L'invenzione di Morel, 1974)
• Ehrengard (1982)
• Un caso d'incoscienza (1984, TV film)
• L'arte e la società (1988, documentary)
• A Simple Story (Una storia semplice, 1991)
• Milonga (1999)
• The Council of Egypt (Il consiglio d'Egitto,2003)
• L'uomo privato (2007)
• News from the Excavations (Notizie dagli scavi, 2011)