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Nino Rota, Who Wrote Music for ‘The Godfather’ and Most Federico Fellini Films, Being Portrayed in High Profile Doc Directed by Walter Fasano (EXCLUSIVE)
Nino Rota, who wrote the score for 'The Godfather' and most Fellini films is to be portrayed in a high-profile doc directed by Walter Fasano.
Rota wrote the score for 16 films directed by Federico Fellini, including “La Strada,” “8 1/2,” “Juliet of the Spirits” and “Amarcord,” besides “La Dolce Vita.” He also composed music for Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” and the Sicilian-inspired theme for “The Godfather,” whose “Part II” score won him his only Oscar. Shooting is underway in Italy’s Apulia region – where Rota lived part of his life in the port city of Bari – on Fasano’s film that will interweave archive materials and interviews with big names who worked with the maestro or were deeply influenced by him, including director Park Chan-Wook, Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat, and seven-time Grammy Award winning conductor and arranger Vince Mendoza. “You just have to make room for the music: this wonderful creative and expressive mystery is then embodied in the art and biographical story of a man who from a young age shows that he knows its deepest secrets,” he added.
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