Umberto Eco

Acting

Umberto Eco

Born — Died

1932-01-05 — 2016-02-19

Place of birth

Alessandria, Piemonte, Italia

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

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'…

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Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 8 titles

Why Are We Creative? poster
7.5

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?"

Why Are We Creative?

2018

La Maison de la Radio poster
6.4

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.

La Maison de la Radio

2013

Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra poster
NR

A voyage, from the Po river to Sicily, in search of the sense of culture for the italian population

Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra

2010

Quiproquo poster
NR

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Quiproquo

2011

Life Is Bearable at Times... poster
NR

Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.

Life Is Bearable at Times...

2010

Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore poster
6.8

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.

Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore

2014

Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco poster
8.0

Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets behind his undertakings and novels.

Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco

2012

We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism poster
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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.

We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism

2013

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