Akademik

(1948-)

   Screenwriter. After being one of the animators and writers of the notorious satirical journal Il Male, Pasquini began working in films as a cowriter for Daniele Luchetti's Domani accadra (It's Happening Tomorrow, 1988). He collaborated again with Luchetti on La settimana della sfinge (The Week of the Sphinx, 1990) and on Il portaborse (The Yes Man, 1991), for which he supplied the story. He subsequently worked with Gabriele Salvatores on Sud (South, 1993), with Michele Placido on Le amiche del cuore (Close Friends, 1992) and Un eroe borghese (Ordinary Hero, 1995), with Mario Brenta on Barnabb delle montagne (Barnabo of the Mountains, 1994), and with Sergio Rubini on Prestazione straordinaria (Working Overtime, 1994). In the late 1990s, after writing and directing his first feature film, Santo Stefano (1997), he also worked extensively for Italian television, writing, among other things, one of the popular Inspector Montalbano series, Il commissario Montalbano: la voce del violino (Inspector Montalbano: The Sound of the Violin, 1999). He has most recently collaborated on the screenplay of Rubini's La terra (The Land, 2006), sharing a nomination for the David di Donatello for Best Screenplay.

   Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema by Alberto Mira