RIP Mario Morra

 

Mario Morra, the editor of Giuseppe Tornatore's 'Nuovo Cinema Paradiso', has died

la Republica

October 11, 2024

 

Mario Morra, editor of many films by directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Gillo Pontecorvo, has died. In his long career, the editing of Nuovo cinema Paradiso, the film by Giuseppe Tornatore, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film in 1989, stands out, but also that of the Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo in 1966. He died in Castelnuovo di Porto, the town in the province of Rome where he lived. He was born in Rome in 1935 and was 89 years old.

Also a director and screenwriter, he was above all an editor for cinema and television. He began in the early 1950s and has edited over 80 films, among others, by Anonimo veneziano by Enrico Maria Salerno, Queimada by Gillo Pontecorvo, Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia ssposarebbe compaesana illibata by Luigi Zampa with Alberto Sordi and Claudia Cardinale, L'emigrante and Rugantino by Pasquale Festa Campanile, with whom he had a long collaboration, the series of films on Piedone lo sbirro di Steno starring Bud Spencer. The collaboration with Giuseppe Tornatore began in 1986 with Il camorrista and continued with Nuovo Cinema Paradiso and Sono tutti bene.

MORRA, Mario

Born: 1935, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 10/11/2024, Castelnuovo di Porto, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Mario Morra’s westerns – film editor:

7 Guns for the MacGregors – 1966

The Long Days of Vengeance - 1967

Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid – 1969

A Man Called Amen - 1972

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears - 1973

Zorro – 1975

Apache Woman – 1976

Mexico in Flames - 1982