Hugo Pratt, trait pour trait
Overview
Several key words emerge from Hugo Pratt's work, inseparable from his life: travel, adventure, erudition, esotericism, mystery, poetry, melancholy... and of course, Corto Maltese, his hero and alter ego, who established him as one of the greatest names in comic books. Born in Italy in 1927 and dying in Switzerland sixty-eight years later, Hugo Pratt, born without an H and with only one T, grew up in the shadow of a fascist father who took him at a very young age to Ethiopia, which was occupied by Mussolini's forces. The teenager developed a fascination for the wide-open spaces of Africa, soon followed by an irresistible attraction to the Indian world. This was the starting point for a life of travel, success, conquests, rare failures, and marked by his veneration for the American cartoonist Milton Caniff, his absolute master.
Release date
23/03/2016
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Original Soundtrack
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Ankara, Hauptstadt in der Steppe
Kinder zwischen zwei Sprachen
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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Men Counting Their Beads
A Portrait of Us
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Fragments
Against the Tide
Rocky Jumped a Park Bench
Cases of NO
I Am or How Jack Became Black
Kurosawa's Way
Wavelengths
Land Without Bread
Salvador Dalí at Work
Um Cinema Quase Paradiso
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Mama Rosa