Lina Wertmuller, 92 years between Oscar and fight for the environment

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 13 - "I have always had a strong character, since I was a child - says Lina Wertmueller about herself -. I was even thrown out of eleven schools and I have always been in charge of the set". No wonder if, on the stroke of 92 / o birthday (August 14), Lina the Fighter still makes her voice heard to fight a new battle: her crusade in Sardinia alongside Legambientec against the concession for a oyster and mussel farming in the Golfo degli Aranci. A place very dear to her, discovered after one of the greatest successes ("Overwhelmed by an unusual destiny ...") and where she also spends these weeks.
    Lina, born in Rome in 1928, is not new to taking positions on political and social issues and has never hidden her ideas, whether it was joining the Socialist Party or claiming women's rights in the world of cinema. At the awarding of the honorary Oscar a few months ago he made the audience stand out by suggesting that from now on Mr. Oscar could be re-baptized as female. More generally, however, she took distances from the extremist positions of feminism, reiterating: "You cannot do this job because you are a man or because you are a woman. You do it because you have talent. This is the only thing that matters to me and it should be the only parameter with which to evaluate who to direct a film. Like everyone else, I had my problems getting accepted but I didn't give a damn. I went straight on my way, always choosing to do what I liked. "
    And she succeeded, as evidenced by a career full of successes. She was the first woman to win a nomination as best director at the time of "Pasqualino settebellezze" (1976) which totaled four; she was the first woman to have succeeded on TV at the time of the "screenplays" with the triumphal welcome of "Giornalino di Giamburrasca" (1964-65) and shared with Iaia Fiastri the privilege of having had space in the award-winning company Garinei & Giovannini. (HANDLE).