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| Director, he was born on June 1° th 1910 in Florence, he dead in Rome in May 1960. He began in cinema in the Thirties in France as assistant-director. Reentered in Italy in 1939, he directed some films of good skill, among which it must be remembered Fari nella nebbia (1942), in which the influence of the realistic French cinema was evident, but that revealed a sincere and original personality of artist. In the postwar period he was approached to the Neorealist movement, seen in ironic and light key, with a pair of films full of comic ideas, of fine taste for the savory and bright story, that unfortunately didn't have popular success: The Bride can't wait (1949) and Hello Elephant (1952), both on subjects of Cesare Zavattini. In the following years, up to the premature death happened in 1960, he alternated work of pure skill, melodramatic and cheap, to artistically more elaborated work, as Racconti Romani (1955) and Girls for the Summer (1958), two film in episodes not deprived of succeeded pages, drawn from the stories of Alberto Moravia. FILMOGRAPHY 1946 - Notte di tempesta From Dizionario del Cinema Italiano 1945/1969 Author Gianni Rondolino Publisher Einaudi 1969 |
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