Farewell to the director Angelo Longoni, in his latest novel he had written: “It is not always the seriousness of a disease to kill, but fate”

The director and screenwriter Angelo Longoni68 years old, went out today in Rome today, after a long illness. Thirty years of career, prepared for Paolo Grassi where he had formed, who saw him direct films such as Men without women (1996, with the magic couple Gianmarco Tognazzi and Alessandro Gassmann, e Naja (1997), taken from the theatrical piece of the same name written by Longoni himself, the television miniseries Caravaggio (2008), starring the actor Alessio Boni e A love of witch (2009), then Maldamore with Luca Zingaretti.

There are also many theatrical performances. As his artistic and professional journey tells, Longoni has crossed the theater, cinema and television leaving a profound mark in contemporary culture. Sensitive author and lucid observer of infinite human shades, he has been able to bring to the public intimate and complex stories, often inspired by brilliant figures: from Caravaggio to Modigliani. Driven by a great passion and commitment he had founded Cenic, the Contemporary Italian dramaturgy center.

“He left us a gentleman,” the colleagues wrote, among the many messages of condolence. To give the announcement of his death, followed by the diagnosis of a very rare tumor, the pleural mesothelioma, was his wife Eleonora Ivone, with whom Longoni had become the father of three daughters, Margherita, Stella and Beatrice. «The world is full of healthy people who die before a patient who would no longer give any chance of survival. How much could last the life of everyone depends on a snap of life, on a distraction on the highway, on a foot put in a foul, a rainy day, by a lost train, by a built coronary and other fortuitous cases. It is not always the seriousness of a disease that killed, but fate, “he wrote Angelo Longoni in Destinyhis latest novel, which will come out posthumously for Giunti publisher next May 15th. “A thriller who tells how fate makes people cross, casually, in situations totally estimated from each other and makes even those who are predestined to die in fact receiving a gift that did not expect,” said his wife Eleonora Ivone at theHandle. “We had already drawn a script that will be my second work as a director.”

The funeral will take place on Wednesday 23 April at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, in Rome.

Source: Vanity Fair

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