Celebrity Biographies
Vincent Cerami
Vincenzo Cerami was a Goya candidate when he signed the script for “Life is beautiful” with Roberto Benigni. The writer and librettist died in Rome at the age of 72, on July 17, 2013. He had been ill for a long time, so he could not go for the David di Donatello prize for his career, which he collected in his name Benigni.
Born on November 2, 1940, in Rome, he studied film there, becoming a student of Pier Paolo Pasolini . He soon made his debut as a novelist with A Little, Very Little Bourgeois, about a man who takes the law into his own hands when his son is murdered. It gave rise to the homonymous film directed by Mario Monicelli , with Alberto Sordi .
Vincenzo Cerami began writing for the big screen with The Desperate , forgotten spaghetti-western. It is followed by titles such as Desiderio , by Anna Maria Tatò , Beat the Heart , by Gianni Amelio , Segreti, segreti , by Giuseppe Bertolucci , The Voyage of Captain Fracassa , by Ettore Scola , or Leap into the Void , by Marco Bellocchio . He also wrote the series Young Mussolini , where Antonio Banderas played the Italian dictator.
He began his association with Roberto Benigni with I am the little devil , where the comedian formed a couple with Walter Matthau . Since then, he became a regular contributor to his compatriot, co-writing with him Johnny Toothpick , The Monster , and his best work, Life is Beautiful . After the enormous international repercussion of the latter, both came together again in Pinocchio and El tigre y la nieve . In recent years, Cerami has also triumphed outside of Benigni’s cinema with Manuale d’amore .
Cerami was divorced from the American actress Mimsy Farmer , who after meeting him settled in Europe and decided not to return to her country, also because she disagreed with the intervention in Vietnam. He became a giallo star, with titles like Four Flies on Gray Velvet . They both had a daughter, Aisha Cerami, also an actress.