Tornatore’s movies screened at National Theatre

Tornatore said he had been intrigued to create a movie based on some Albanian stories he had read
TIRANA, May 2 – Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore was introduced to the Albania public from April 30 to May 2, with some of his movie masterpieces at an event held in the National Theatre in Tirana.
The event organized by the Italian embassy in Tirana was held in the frame of “Italy, Albania, Two Peoples, One Sea, One Friendship” great season of cultural events.
The activity dedicated to Tornatore included movies, documentaries by the renowned director and his hometown of Sicily. A retrospective exhibition of his movies was also featured at the event.
Speaking after his first visit to Albania this week, Tornatore said he had been intrigued to create a movie based on some Albanian stories he had read.
Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore earned international acclaim in 1988 with his second film, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso/Cinema Paradiso. A nostalgic and unabashedly sentimental tribute to the influence of movies on a young boy’s life, the film earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Grand Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Tornatore was born in Bagheria, Italy. Before becoming a filmmaker, he was an award-winning still photographer and then a television director who specialized in making documentaries. Tornatore made his feature-film debut in 1985 with Il Camorrista/The Professor.