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Alfonso Santagata
Foggia, 1 September 1947
He graduated from the drama school in Milan, after some experience as an actor with Luca Ronconi, Dario Fo and Carlo Cecchi, interprets, the man the beast and the virtue, the bourgeois gentleman and Don Giovanni. Together with Claudio Morganti founded the theatre company Katzenmacher, making the show, raw and touching story of marginalization of immigrants in Germany and together work on memory and language. Since then, true to a kind of poetry of marginality and delinquency, have created numerous shows, often by rewriting literary texts from various authors. Dissolved the partnership with Morganti, remained artistic director of the company, continuing with young actors the work of modern reinterpretation of farce and tragedy.
Filmography
Red Palombella by Nanni Moretti
Hotel Fear by Renato De Maria
Lunch on August by Gianni Di Gregorio
Gianni and women by Gianni Di Gregorio
Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone
Henry of Alessandro Piva
We believed by Mario Martone
The ideal city of Luigi Lo Cascio