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

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]

In 2013 he was awarded the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française.

Gatti, like his father, was an anarchist. His works included themes of prisons and escape.[4]

Biography

One of the most acclaimed theater writer/directors of the 20th century, Gatti was originally a member of the informal Left Bank group of filmmakers that included Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Jean Cayrol, but because none of his films have been released on video in the US, he remains an elusive figure for many cinephiles. He appears in Resnais' Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and in Marker's Immemory CD-Rom; he wrote China (1956) for Marker's Petite Planète collection and traveled with Marker in the making of Letter from Siberia (1957), which inspired his book Siberia — Zero + Infinity the following year.

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.[5] During World War II, Gatti joined a small French Resistance maquis. Captured, tortured, and sentenced to a concentration camp in Hamburg where he was forced to work in a diving bell at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, Gatti eventually escaped and joined a British Special Air Service special forces team. After the war, he worked as an award-winning journalist for many years until he traveled with Marker, published his first plays, and directed his first film, Enclosure (L'Enclos, 1961).

L'Enclos was screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival but it was hailed by Truffaut, Resnais, Cocteau and others.

He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1999, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2004 and the Grand prix du théâtre from the Académie française in 2013.

He died on 6 April 2017.[6]

Theatrical works

Filmography

References

  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. ^ Cohn, Jesse (2015). Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011. AK Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-84935-201-7.
  5. ^ Lafosse, Philippe (February 2001). "Eloge de la révolution". monde-diplomatique.fr. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Armand Gatti, miroir éclaté des utopies". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  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

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