16 | ARTICLE
ICFF 2022
ALESSANDRO GASSMANN WORTHY OF HIS NAME!
by Tonia Serrao Soppelsa
Alessandro Gassmann is one of the most appreciated and soughtafter contemporary Italian actors in the world of cinema — an actor, who owes his success to his great talent and participation in some of the most important films made in recent years. Recently, Alessandro Gassmann was the protagonist in a couple of the best loved Italian fiction series, such as the Bastardi di Pizzofalcone and just lately, in the title role of Il Professore broadcast on Rai television. It was the illustrious Vittorio Gassmann who initially pushed his son to become an actor like himself. “I didn't want to do anything“, says the younger Gassmann, “ I played basketball, … I worked as a bouncer at the Piper…“. Forced by his father however, he found himself at the age of 17 making his debut in 1982 with the film From Father To Son, written and directed and starring Gassmann Sr. In 1985 he appeared in the sequel to “I soliti ignoti“ (“I soliti ignoti, Twenty Years Later“), again with his father, and actors Marcello Mastroianni and Tiberio Murgia. In 1995 he worked in an American production, “A Month at the Lake“ by John Irvin with Uma Thurman. The big break comes in 1997 when the young man finally comes to terms with his desire to act. With Ferzan Ozpetek's directorial debut film, The Turkish Bath - Hamam, thanks to Gassmann’s interpretation of Francesco, an interior
