Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Nino Rota is a Actor, Director of Photography, Sound and Compositor Italien born on 3 december 1911 at Milan (Italie)

Nino Rota

Nino Rota
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name Giovanni Rota
Nationality Italie
Birth 3 december 1911 at Milan (Italie)
Death 10 april 1979 (at 67 years) at Rome (Italie)

Giovanni "Nino" Rota (December 3, 1911 – April 10, 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974).

During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.

Biography

Nino Rota est né le 3 décembre 1911 à Milan, dans une famille de musiciens. Il étudia, dès son enfance, au conservatoire de Milan, sous la direction d'Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Il acquit une certaine renommée en tant que compositeur et chef d'orchestre dès son enfance, son premier oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, ayant été par exemple représenté à Milan et à Paris en 1923, alors qu'il n'avait que douze ans.

En 1929, il intégra le conservatoire Sainte-Cécile, à Rome, où il étudia sous la direction d'Alfredo Casella.

Le chef d'orchestre Arturo Toscanini lui conseilla alors d'aller se perfectionner à Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie). Rota y obtint une bourse d'études au Curtis Institute, où il étudia, de 1930 à 1932, sous la direction de Fritz Reiner (direction d'orchestre) et de Rosario Scalero (composition).

De retour à Milan, il poursuivit ses études en étudiant la littérature à l'université de Milan. Il écrivit également une thèse consacrée à Gioseffo Zarlino, compositeur de la Renaissance.

Il s'orienta ensuite vers une carrière d'enseignement de la musique, à partir de 1937, qu'il mena de front avec son œuvre de compositeur, et qui le conduisit à prendre la direction, en 1950, du conservatoire de Bari, qu'il conserva jusqu'à sa mort en 1979.

Rota écrivit ses premières partitions pour le cinéma dès 1933 pour Treno popolare de Raffaelo Matarazzo, puis pour Zazà (1944), film réalisé par Renato Castellani. Il travailla aussi pour Edgar G. Ulmer, Alberto Lattuada, Henry Cass, Luigi Comencini, Terence Young et Henri Verneuil. Il fit la connaissance du réalisateur Federico Fellini, alors que celui-ci travaillait sur son premier film, Le Cheik blanc (Lo sceicco bianco, 1952). Ce fut le début de nombreuses collaborations entre le réalisateur et le compositeur, comme pour Les Vitelloni, La strada, La dolce vita. La bande sonore du film Huit et demi est par exemple souvent citée comme un des éléments les plus marquants du film, qui lui donne une certaine « cohérence ». Il est aussi l'auteur de la musique du Satyricon, d'Amarcord, du Casanova de Fellini et de deux des quatre sketches de Boccace 70 dont l'un fut tourné par le « maître ». Son dernier travail avec Fellini est Répétition d'orchestre (Prova d'orchestra) en 1978, un de ses chefs-d'œuvre. La relation Rota - Fellini a été si importante qu'aux funérailles d'État à Rome auxquelles Fellini a eu droit, le célèbre trompettiste italien Mauro Maur joua devant une foule immense l'œuvre « l'Improvviso dell'Angelo » de Nino Rota.

Parmi les partitions les plus célèbres de Nino Rota, citons également celles du Parrain (qui comprend un motif musical proche du thème de La Force du Destin de Verdi) et du Parrain II, réalisés par Francis Ford Coppola, et de Roméo et Juliette, réalisé par Franco Zeffirelli ou celles du Guépard ou de Rocco et ses frères de Luchino Visconti.

En dehors de ses travaux pour le septième art, Nino Rota a également composé dix opéras, cinq ballets et beaucoup d'autres œuvres instrumentales, dont le Concerto Soirée (pour piano et orchestre) (1962).

Il meurt le 10 avril 1979 à Rome, d'une thrombose coronaire.

Best films

The Godfather (1972)
(Original Music Composer)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
(Original Music Composer)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
(Original Music Composer)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
(Original Music Composer)
Death on the Nile (1978)
(Original Music Composer)
War and Peace (1956)
(Original Music Composer)

Usually with

Piero Gherardi
Piero Gherardi
(21 films)
Carlo Ponti
Carlo Ponti
(23 films)
Mario Monicelli
Mario Monicelli
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nino Rota (144 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

Ciao, Federico!, 1h
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Nino Rota, Giuseppe Rotunno, Dante Ferretti, Martin Potter
Roles lui-même
Rating64% 3.2382753.2382753.2382753.2382753.238275
Reportage, en 1968, sur le tournage du film Satyricon. Interviews de Federico Fellini, commentaires de quelques-uns de ses acteurs, ainsi que des membres de son entourage.
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, 1h
Directed by Federico Fellini
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary
Actors Giulietta Masina, Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Caterina Boratto, Pasqualino De Santis, Bernardino Zapponi
Roles Self
Rating65% 3.2945253.2945253.2945253.2945253.294525
Commissioned by NBC television producer Peter Goldfarb in 1968 to do an hour-long program on his work, Fellini filmed a "sort of semihumourous introduction" to past and future plans: the recently abandoned project, The Voyage of G. Mastorna, and his latest work-in-progress, Fellini Satyricon.
8½
(1963)
, 2h18
Directed by Giulio Paradisi, Federico Fellini, Lina Wertmüller
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about films, Les fantasmes, Films about sexuality, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele
Rating80% 4.0007254.0007254.0007254.0007254.000725
Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a famous Italian film director, is suffering from "director's block". Stalled on his new science fiction film that includes veiled autobiographical references, he has lost interest amid artistic and marital difficulties. As Guido struggles half-heartedly to work on the film, a series of flashbacks and dreams delve into his memories and fantasies; they are frequently interwoven with reality.

Cameraman

The Most Wonderful Moment, 1h32
Directed by Luciano Emmer
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Giovanna Ralli, Marisa Merlini, Emilio Cigoli, Memmo Carotenuto, Bice Valori
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.045333.045333.045333.045333.04533
Pietro est un jeune médecin adepte de l'accouchement sans douleur. Il entretient une relation discrète avec une jeune infirmière, qu'il ne peut plus cacher lorsque celle-ci tombe enceinte. Leur projet de mariage est contrarié.

Sound

Love Story
Love Story (2011)
, 1h31
Rating65% 3.264833.264833.264833.264833.26483
A Cock and Bull Story, 1h34
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about films
Actors Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Stephen Fry
Rating66% 3.3472653.3472653.3472653.3472653.347265
A Cock and Bull Story depicts Steve Coogan playing himself as an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life. Coogan is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's, calling himself the "co-lead".
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, 1h42
Directed by Damian Pettigrew
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Terence Stamp, Donald Sutherland, Dante Ferretti, Tullio Pinelli
Rating69% 3.485993.485993.485993.485993.48599
A camera tracks crosswise alongside a wide, brightly appointed beach, in what appears to be the dead of winter. No bathers are in sight, only a rolling parade of empty cabanas, with a tranquil blue seascape in the distance beyond. The wistful, melancholy music of Nino Rota lends these vistas a dreamy familiarity. We then jump from color to luminous black & white, and a quick glimpse of Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece, 8½, in which the monumentally buxom harlot, La Saraghina, is preparing to perform her rumba on the beach for a flock of fugitive schoolboys. It's the very same beach we were just staring at, but magically denuded of 40 years of succeeding development, and made mythic through the eyes of a master. From this point of departure, Pettigrew juxtaposes archival footage and fresh interviews with Fellini's collaborators, interspersed with classic clips and the fruits of his own present-day visits to the haunting locales where I Vitelloni (1953), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), Fellini Satyricon (1969) and other cinematic wonders first came to life. The goal is to fuse these ingredients thematically, to a degree that may better illuminate Fellini's conscience and philosophies.
The Godfather Part III, 2h43
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Al Pacino, Andy García, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Sofia Coppola, Eli Wallach
Rating75% 3.7986953.7986953.7986953.7986953.798695
In 1979, as Michael Corleone is approaching 60, he regrets his ruthless rise to power, and is especially guilt-ridden for having his brother, Fredo, murdered. He has semi-retired from the Mafia, leaving the Corleone family's criminal interests under enforcer Joey Zasa's control. Michael uses his tremendous wealth and power in an attempt to rehabilitate his reputation via numerous charitable acts. Michael and Kay divorced in 1960, and Kay was given custody of their children, Anthony and Mary.
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later, 1h39
Genres Comedy
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Tiberio Murgia, Ennio Fantastichini, Alessandro Gassmann, Franca Scagnetti
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating55% 2.7663552.7663552.7663552.7663552.766355
After several years in prison because of a hit gone wrong, Tiberius released from prison and finds a Rome changed dramatically, appearance and soul. Back home to his wife Teresa and found that, in the meantime, his wife rents the house and "lives" in exchange for money for the rent with another man, by the way very quickly, and also to pay his lawyer has sold all photographic equipment with which Tiberius had plans to build a new life. Out of the house and the man refused the attempt at conciliation with Teresa, Tiberius adapts to sleep inside the carcasses of cars in the junkyard front of the house.
Hurricane
Hurricane (1979)
, 2h
Directed by Jan Troell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Timothy Bottoms, Mia Farrow, Jason Robards, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, James Keach
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating47% 2.3650152.3650152.3650152.3650152.365015
Set in the 1920s in Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa, Charlotte, an American painter, arrives from Boston on the island of Alaya to visit her father, U. S. Navy Captain Bruckner, whom she hasn't seen in quite some time. Bruckner is the U.S. Congress-sanctioned Governor of the island, and he rules it with a stern, patrician, and thoroughly patronizing attitude towards the natives. Charlotte is somewhat taken aback by her father's rigid adherence to the law, particularly when she tries to intervene on behalf of Bruckner's charge/houseboy Matangi, who has involved Charlotte in a scheme to get Bruckner to toss out a harsh penalty issued to a native man who stole a boat "for love." Bruckner refuses, pish-poshing all this talk of love over the law, and severely reprimands Matangi, much to Charlotte's dismay.
Orchestra Rehearsal, 1h10
Directed by Federico Fellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Federico Fellini
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70% 3.543943.543943.543943.543943.54394
Dans un oratoire du XIII siècle, un orchestre symphonique (formation d'une quarantaine de musiciens) répète une œuvre de Nino Rota (même si le nom du compositeur n'est jamais mentionné). Le représentant syndical de l'orchestre vient prévenir les musiciens qu'une équipe de télévision va venir filmer la répétition, et interviewer les musiciens qui le souhaiteront.
Contact
Contact (1978)
, 9minutes
Directed by Vladimir Tarasov
Genres Science fiction, Animation
Roles Music
Rating69% 3.4880353.4880353.4880353.4880353.488035
A painter leaves the town and walks around countryside. While he is resting on the grass, humming the melody of Speak Softly Love, a large spaceship lands near him. An alien exits the spaceship, photographs the environment and tries to contact the painter by changing his appearance to resemble nearby animals and objects and by touching him. The painter is frightened and tries to run away, but becomes tired, falls from a cliff and lies on the ground, imagining that the alien is going to lock him in a cage and torture him. The alien approaches the painter and tries to hum the same melody that the painter hummed earlier, but makes some mistakes. The painter understands that the alien is friendly, teaches him the correct melody, and they walk away together hand in hand.
Death on the Nile, 2h20
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Peter Ustinov, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis, George Kennedy
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating72% 3.6483453.6483453.6483453.6483453.648345
The film begins with a meeting between wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles) and her close friend Jacqueline de Bellefort (Mia Farrow). Jacquie wants her fiancé, Simon Doyle (Simon MacCorkindale), to work for Linnet, but he and Linnet have a whirlwind affair and end up marrying. While honeymooning in Egypt, they are continually hounded by the jilted Jacquie. In an attempt to get away, the Doyles pretend to go to the Cairo Railway Station before backtracking to board their booked cruise on a Nile paddle steamer, the S.S. Karnak.
Dear Michele, 1h48
Directed by Mario Monicelli, Carlo Vanzina
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément, Lou Castel, Fabio Carpi, Marcella Michelangeli
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.132383.132383.132383.132383.13238
Après les émeutes étudiantes de 68, Michele quitte sa famille bourgeoise pour Londres, mais reste en contact avec sa mère et ses sœurs, dans une correspondance où il fait la lumière sur les différents personnages qui ont marqué sa vie, notamment Mara, qui prétend avoir eu un enfant de lui. Un jour, elles apprennent la mort de Michele.
Fellini's Casanova, 2h35
Directed by Federico Fellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Donald Sutherland, Daniel Emilfork, Tina Aumont, Carmen Scarpitta, Dan van Husen, Mary Marquet
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69% 3.4990053.4990053.4990053.4990053.499005
The film opens with a carnival in Venice as a prelude to a series of erotic encounters that follow Giacomo Casanova through the cities of 18th century Europe. It is during this festival that a gigantic bust fails to rise from the water, which is taken as a bad omen. Casanova is then introduced as he defiles a fake nun for the pleasure of a rich voyeur; Casanova succeeds in entertaining him, but he is frustrated that the man finds no interest in his alchemical research and further scheming. As he rows back to mainland, Casanova is arrested, judged and imprisoned by the High Court over his famed debauchery.