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Davide Manuli. Director: The Legend of Kaspar Hauser. Davide Manuli is known for The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012), Beket (2008) and Girotondo, giro attorno al mondo (1999).
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Manuli was born in the Italian city of Milan. He moved to New York in 1987 to pursue acting. Davide studied at the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Institute. He later became the personal assistant of acting coach Charlie Laughton for Al Pacino’sChal Productions in New York.
Manuli started his career as an actor in 1991, playing the role of Beppo in the film "The Enchanted April," followed by his leading role as Anton Menescu in the film "The Contenders." The movie went on to win the Best Comedy award at the WorldFest Houston Festival. He produced, wrote, and shot his first feature film "Girotondo, tour around the worl...
Manuli won the VELA d’ORO at the Bellaria Film Festival for the short film "Bombay”. He also won the Premio Solinas for Best Original Italian Screenplay in 1995. In 2006 he was nominated for best Italian documentary film for “Unheard-of!” at the Turin Film festival. Manuli was nominated for the Golden Leopard-Filmmakers of the Present award at the ...
Manuli wrote the book "My inability to be in the world" in 1995, which was published by Kaos Communication. In 2014, Davide was named in the book "10 Directors Outside the Screens", published by the Italian publishing house Uzak Mobile Characters. In 2015 he wrote the comics the book “La Leggenda di Kaspar Hauser” together with cartoonist Gianluca ...
Davide Manuli's channel on YouTubeDavide Manuli studied from 1987 to 1990 at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute with acting coach Penny Allen in New York, and in 1991 became an assistant to Al Pacino and Charlie Laughton for CHAL Productions. He also studied with Stella Adler in 1990 and in Sanford Meisner acting classes.
Oct 4, 2012 · Director Davide Manuli cast the equally maverick Vincent Gallo in both roles for a visually breathtaking re-working of the German fable. Our cinema programmer Jo Blair interviews Manuli about the film:
Davide Manuli. Davide Manuli ( Milano, 11 aprile 1967) è un regista e attore italiano .
Jul 10, 2013 · Davide Manuli (Milan, 1967) might be best known for his last escapade into Rotterdam with “La Leggenda di Gaspar Hauser”, a very particular retake on the classic myth carried to the big screen by Werner Herzog, but this Italian filmmaker has been around since the late eighties’ struggling to find (and finally succeeding) a new narrative ...
Kaspar, a mysterious youth who surfaced in Nuremberg in 1828 with limited speech abilities, remains an enigma with unexplained royal ties. In this surreal rendition by director Davide Manuli, Kaspar, clad in tracksuit and headphones, washes ashore on a nearly deserted island.
