Sig. Claudio G. Fava PhD

 Star film critic and film selector at RAI TV 2

  I met Claudio G Fava in Rai 2 in November 1977. I was an aspiring journalist at 27 years old from Oslo, Norway. I was in Rome to make a reportage of Italian film and Television. I sat in the office of Claudio at RAI2 with him behind his desk. He was my mentor and teacher and with him I started to grow as a person in journalism and film. I had written for the largest newspaper in Norway, "Aftenposten" (The Evening Post) for some years, and it was my idea to go to Rome and to see what they did there. Claudio had a remarkable intellect, very sharp and always with a humoristic twist to it. Claudio was -  and will always remain a great, intelligent journalist and a humanistic person.

Aftenposten - The Eveing Post - is the largest daily circulating newspaper in Norway

 Article by Harald Dahle. Fava: "The danger of color film in Cinema is that it gives a pseudo-realistic impression of reality."

     A great critic, a talking exception       and an extraordinary friend. It is a great pain to have to remember, but there is also the pleasure of having met such an extraordinary person.

Sig. Claudio G. Fava PhD

OBITUARY

Genoa. A crowd of friends brought their last farewells to Claudio G. Fava, who died suddenly on Sunday at the age of 83, to the church of San Francesco di Albaro this morning. Among them Mimmo Angeli, the director of Corriere mercantile, the newspaper where Fava began his long career as a journalist and then as a film critic.

"We started together, the desks side by side" he says moved. “With him, he never lacked the joke, thanks to his English humor, but also the desire to help you, a feature that is increasingly difficult to find today. I remember his smile and his great culture, which, however, he never made a difference ”.

“A great critic, a talking exception and an extraordinary friend. This is how the theater and film critic Aldo Viganò remembers him. "It is a great pain to have to remember, but there is also the pleasure of having met such an extraordinary person".

For Oreste De Fornari, critic and television author

“Claudio was a funny and intelligent person, who talked about everything. Any pretext was enough to have a digression from him, a historical anecdote, something that enriched us ”.

At the funeral also Franco Bampi, president of A Compagna, a friend above all of Claudio's wife, the painter and Elena Pongiglione, vice president of A Compagna:

“We were organizing for May 30 the presentation of his latest book that collected the writings of the merchant courier. A polite and kind person, with a very fine humor ".

Fava: Brilliant.