Nanni Moretti

Giovanni Nanni Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. The Palme dOr winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol, Italy, to Roman parents who were both teachers. His father was the late epigraphist Luigi Moretti, an influential Greek teacher at Sapienza University of Rome. While growing up he discovered his two passions, the cinema and water polo. Having finished his studies he pursued a career as a producer, and in 1973 directed his first two short films Pt de bourgeois and The Defeat . His brother is the renowned literary scholar Franco Moretti.

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