Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Born: January 5, 1932
Died: February 19, 2016
in Alessandria, Piemonte, Italia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Umberto Eco OMRI (Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko]; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known internationally for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.

Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays. He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino, president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Movies for Umberto Eco...

All Men Become Brothers
Title: All Men Become Brothers
Released: September 21, 2023
Type: Movie
A film about the phenomenon of Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak politician, one of the most prominent personalities of the Prague Spring of 1968, author of the concept of “socialism with a human face”.
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Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Title: Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Character: Self - Writer (archive footage)
Released: March 2, 2023
Type: Movie
A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016).
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Andate a lavorare
Title: Andate a lavorare
Character: Se stesso
Released: April 11, 2022
Type: Movie
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Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
Title: Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore
Released: February 10, 2014
Type: Movie
No other country in the world has the same kind of affection and admiration toward Walt Disney and his art and characters as Italy. His movies are legendary and his stories belong to the collective imagination of generations of Italians who grew up with his world of dreams and hopes. This documentary explores this love story.
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We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Title: We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2013
Type: Movie
This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this veritable cultural revolution rapidly became a boundless source of inspiration for movie-makers throughout the entire world. Even today it influences those wanting to produce quality movies characterized and identified as Italian products able to be exported as well. It is precisely one of the masters of this unique current rich in different personalities who introduces the story - Carlo Lizzani - whose 'lesson' reconstructs the birth and development of Neorealism in Italy. It combined innovative movie techniques with a new view based on a 'true' interpretation of reality. Due to its high cultural value, this short film was given the highest reknown of the Presidency of the Republic of Italy.
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La Maison de la Radio
Title: La Maison de la Radio
Character: Self
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Making a film about a radio station doesn’t sound like the most visually compelling of projects. How many takes do you need before the acoustic transition from the opening to the closing of a door is perfect or the reader's voice correctly modulated? Nicolas Philibert has accepted the challenge to portray that which cannot be seen. Shouldering his camera, he spent half a year wandering the endless corridors of Radio France’s ‘round house’ on the banks of the Seine where he filmed people who dedicate themselves utterly and meticulously to their work.
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Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco
Title: Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco
Character: Himself
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets behind his undertakings and novels.
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Quiproquo
Title: Quiproquo
Released: September 3, 2011
Type: Movie
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Life Is Bearable at Times...
Title: Life Is Bearable at Times...
Released: February 28, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.
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A Beautiful Vacation
Title: A Beautiful Vacation
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2006
Type: Movie
This 2006 documentary was filmed on the occasion of director Dino Risi's ninetieth birthday. It features interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family, as well as Risi himself, who talks candidly about his personal successes and the obstacles he has faced.
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Title: Sabine Christiansen
Character: Self
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: TV
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La rosa dei nomi
Title: La rosa dei nomi
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Title: The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 1986
Type: Movie
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
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Title: Babau
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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La Notte
Title: La Notte
Character: Man at the Party (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.