Angelo Longoni, director of « Men without women » and « Maldamore » who died

«The world is full of healthy people who die before a patient who would no longer give any chance of survival. How much can everyone last depends on a snap of life, on a distraction in
A highway, from one foot put in a foul, from a rainy day, by a lost train, from a blocked coronary and other fortuitous cases. It is not always the seriousness of a disease that killed, but fate».

So wrote Angelo Longoni in « Destiny »his latest novel, who will come out Postumo for Giunti Editore next May 15th. The director and writer of many successes between theater, cinema and TV, such as «Men without women » And « Naja »died this morning in Rome, after a long illness.

The news was the news, his wife, The actress Eleonora Ivone. The funeral will be held Wednesday 23 April at 12 to the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome.

Born in 1956, Milanese but Roman by adoption68 years old, father of three daughters – Margherita, Stella and Beatrice -, Longoni had grown to Paolo Grassi and founded Cenic, the Contemporary Italian dramaturgy center.

After some actor tests, starting from the eighties in the theater he gave new light to the contemporary dramaturgybringing stories on stage
always closely linked to one reflection on thisoften in comedy, they were the new males, the class struggle, the imperfection to which the mothers, the new relationships or the sense of honesty, between titles such as « hostages », « witnesses », « the wall », « life », « guests », « Xanax », « Modigliani », « we do » do Fiesta « .

Among the creators, at the time, of the Gianmarco Tognazzi Gianmarco couple – Alessandro Gassmann who made a fury in « men without women », as few knew how to « translate » their stories from the page of a book to the set and the stage, and vice versa, directing a lot also for the small and big screen where he also signed the Miniseries on Caravaggio with Alessio Boni, the portrait of « Tiberius Mitri – The champion and the Miss » with Luca Argentero or « Maldamore » with Luca Zingaretti.

Rigorous, with an never redundant, essential, but always direct and effective writing, Longoni worked until the last, struck down, said his wife, « from a very rare tumorthe pleural mesothelioma », caused
fromExposure to asbestos.

In March he was on tour « Who is me » With Francesco Pannofino and Emanuela Rossi and from 14 to 19 May his « we Judas » will return to Parioli Costanzo in Rome with Massimo Ghini, « Which is a bit of his will »Ivone underlined.

On the other hand, his latest novel, « destinies », « a thriller who tells how it will be released Destiny makes people crossaccidentally, in situations totally estimated from each other and ensures that even who is predestined to die It actually receives a gift that did not expect. We already had it stretch a script – anticipates the actress – who will be mine Second work by director».