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Paolo Sorrentino (Italian: [ˈpaːolo sorrenˈtiːno]; born 31 May 1970; Naples) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today. He is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards. In Italy he was honoured with eight David di Donatello and six Nastro d'Argento. Sorrentino made his directorial film debut with the Italian comedy-drama One Man Up (2001) for which he received the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director followed by The Consequences of Love (2004), The Family Friend (2006), and This Must Be the Place (2011). The biographical drama Il Divo (2009) was awarded the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize. He received critical acclaim with the art drama The Great Beauty (2013) which won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He followed with Youth (2015), Loro (2018), and The Hand of God (2021) the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He is also known for his work on television creating and directing the HBO drama series The Young Pope (2016), and The New Pope (2019). He worked with songwriters Antonello Venditti, Paloma Faith and Mark Kozelek and written three books published in Italian. He works with authors and producers including Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano, Toni Servillo and Luca Bigazzi. Actors in his films have included Sabrina Ferilli, Michael Caine, Fanny Ardant, Harvey Keitel, Isabella Ferrari, Elena Sofia Ricci, Sean Penn, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jude Law, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Nanni Moretti, Filippo Scotti, Carlo Verdone, Antonio Albanese, Frank Langella and Jane Fonda.
Paolo Sorrentino
Director
for Director in Flight into the Abyss: The Life of Joseph Roth
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Flight into the Abyss is a gripping six-part biopic miniseries that explores the tumultuous life and work of Joseph Roth, one of the most enigmatic and insightful writers of the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of war-torn Europe and the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, the series delves into Roth's experiences as a soldier, journalist, and novelist- capturing both the spirit of his literary genius and the personal demons that shaped his tragic journey. The miniseries follows Roth from the early years in Galicia, a region fraught with ethnic tensions, through his rise as a celebrated writer in Vienna and Berlin. As Roth navigates the disillusionment of post-World War I Europe, his work- marked by a haunting nostalgia for a lost empire- becomes a lens through which the complexities of exile, displacement, and identity are explored. Audiences will witness Roth's descent into alcoholism, his volatile relationships, and his fierce critique of rising fascism, which culminates in his exile from Nazi Germany. The miniseries will poignantly portray Roth's internal struggle as an intellectual deeply aware of the world's impending collapse, yet powerless to stop it.
