| Emidio Greco | |
| Birth Date: | 20 October 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Leporano, Italy |
| Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Occupation: | Film director, screenwriter |
| Yearsactive: | 1974-2012 |
Emidio Greco (20 October 1938 - 22 December 2012) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, best known for the 1974 film Morel's Invention.
Born in Leporano, in the province of Taranto, Greco moved in Turin as a child.[1] In 1964 he graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, then, two years later, he started an activity as documentarist for RAI TV.[1] In 1971 he attended Roberto Rossellini accompanying him in Chile for a filmed interview with Salvador Allende.[1] In 1974 Greco made his directorial debut in a feature film with Morel's Invention that, well-received from critics, marked him as a real promise in Italian art cinema.[1] His second film, Ehrengard, filmed in 1982, would be released just in 2002 due to the bankruptcy of the producers;[1] from then he directed six more films, mainly literary works adaptations.[1] In 1991 he was awarded with a Nastro d'Argento award for best screenplay for the film Una storia semplice.[2]
In 2004 Greco, together with Francesco Maselli, founded and organized the "Giornate degli Autori" section at the Venice Film Festival.[1] [3] He died in Rome at 74 after a brief illness.[1] [4]