Roberto Faenza

7 titles·Since 1993

February 21, 1943 · Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Roberto Faenza (born 21 February 1943 in Turin) is an Italian film director. He received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Faenza made his directing debut in 1968 with the international success, Escalation, a film that describes the different sides of power through the relationship between a middle-class father and his hippie son. Immediately after that he directed H2S, an angry apology of the 1968 movement, seized two days after its release and not distributed since. Upon this sequestration he travelled to the United States to teach at the Federal City College of Washington DC.

Filmography (7)

La verità sta in cielo

2016 · Director

Anita B.

2014 · Director

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2012 · Director

Come Into the Light

2005 · Director

The Soul Keeper

2003 · Director

Pereira Declares

1995 · Director

Look to the Sky

1993 · Director

February 21, 1943 · Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Roberto Faenza (born 21 February 1943 in Turin) is an Italian film director. He received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Faenza made his directing debut in 1968 with the international success, Escalation, a film that describes the different sides of power through the relationship between a middle-class father and his hippie son. Immediately after that he directed H2S, an angry apology of the 1968 movement, seized two days after its release and not distributed since. Upon this sequestration he travelled to the United States to teach at the Federal City College of Washington DC.