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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

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 side di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel The cemetery of 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 Environmental 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.

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Movies Starring Umberto Eco (14)

All Men Become Brothers (2023)

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 (2023)

A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016). ...

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Why Are We Creative?: The Centipede's Dilemma (2018)

A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative? ...

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Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore (2014)

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 hi ...

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We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism (2013)

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 ...

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La Maison de la Radio (2013)

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? Nicol ...

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Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco (2012)

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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Life Is Bearable at Times... (2010)

Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska. ...

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A Beautiful Vacation (2006)

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 h ...

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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (1986)

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 internation ...

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La Notte (1961)

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan. ...

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Movies Made By Umberto Eco (1)

The Name of the Rose (1986)

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight ...

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