Armand Gatti (French: [gati]; 26 January 1924 – 6 April 2017) was a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter.[1] His debut film Enclosure was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver Prize for Best Director.[2] Two years later, his film El Otro Cristóbal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Armand Gatti
Born(1924-01-26)26 January 1924
Died6 April 2017(2017-04-06) (aged 93)
Occupations
  • Playwright
  • poet
  • journalist
  • screenwriter
  • filmmaker
Years active1960–2012

Personal life

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According to his 1989 biographer, Dorothy Knowles, Gatti was born in 1924 in a shantytown in Monaco to Auguste Rainier an Italian anarchist from Piedmont, who escaped murder in a Chicago slaughterhouse because of his political activities and fled Benito Mussolini's regime and to Letizia Lusona a maid.[4]

He died on 6 April 2017.[5]

Gatti, like his father, was an anarchist. His works included themes of prisons and escape.[6]

Theatrical works

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Filmography

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  • 1960 Moranbong, une aventure coréenne (writer only)
  • 1961 Enclosure
  • 1963 El Otro Cristóbal
  • 1968 Das imaginäre Leben des Straßenkehrers Auguste G. (writer only)
  • 1970 Der Übergang über den Ebro
  • 1983 Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres

References

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  1. ^ Banham (1998, 413).
  2. ^ "2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-11-11.
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: El Otro Cristóbal". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  4. ^ Lafosse, Philippe (February 2001). "Eloge de la révolution". monde-diplomatique.fr. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Armand Gatti, miroir éclaté des utopies". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  6. ^ Cohn, Jesse (2015). Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011. AK Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-84935-201-7.
  7. ^ Reznikoff, Jorinde (2024-01-22), "Armand Gatti", Der Graue Blog (in German), Germany, archived from the original on 2022-09-16, retrieved 2024-01-22

Sources

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  • Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. ISBN 0-521-43437-8.
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