Nanni Candelari
- Actor
He was born in Ancona in 1930 and spent more than 60 years in Rome, the
city that he called "My only Lover". He start very late his career as a
theatrical actor and dubber. Nanni met the young author and director
Luca Guardabascio in 1995 and they decide to work together in some
cabarets, happenings, tea rooms, bars, pubs with non sense parody and
Alfred Jarry's pieces thanks to the roman director Filippo Gabriele.
Nanni Candelari was one of the characters in the first Italian Marron
movies directed by Luca Guardabascio, Inseguito (2002) and from that
moment they worked together in several films. Candelari was 70 years
old when Cinema and Tv discovered him. His masterpiece is considered
the "marron bitter crime comedy": Addio Notte Bianca that talk about an
old actor that discover to have atherosclerosis. The character was so
high, powerful tragic and spontaneous that he won the Film Festival of
Sarajevo and several prices as the Verso Sud Awards in 2005. He spent his
last years on the stage with the director Alessandro Gasmann. In 2014
he started a movie with his best friend and director Luca Guardabascio
"Isacco, where are you?" as a grandfather's role. He died in Ancona,
"the only city that he loved more than Rome.