Antonio Pietrangeli
- Film director
- screenwriter
Antonio Pietrangeli (19 January 1919 – 12 July 1968) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was a major practitioner of the commedia all'italiana genre.
Biography
Pietrangeli was born in Rome.[1] He started in the film industry by writing movie reviews for Italian cinema magazines such as Bianco e Nero and Cinema.
As a screenwriter, his works include Ossessione and La terra trema directed by Luchino Visconti, Fabiola directed by Alessandro Blasetti, and Europa '51 directed by Roberto Rossellini.
Pietrangeli's own directing debut was Il sole negli occhi, a 1953 film starring Gabriele Ferzetti. This was followed by the Alberto Sordi comedies Lo scapolo (1956) and Souvenir d'Italie (1957).
The director's career highlights include Adua e le compagne (1960), a drama with Marcello Mastroianni and Simone Signoret, the supernatural comedy Fantasmi a Roma (1961), again with Mastroianni, Il magnifico cornuto (1964), a comedy of adultery starring Claudia Cardinale and Ugo Tognazzi, and the comedy-drama Io la conoscevo bene (1965) with Stefania Sandrelli.
He won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director for Io la conoscevo bene.
Pietrangeli died from drowning by accident in the Gulf of Gaeta in 1968, while working on the film Come, quando, perché. The movie was completed by his friend, director Valerio Zurlini.[2][3]
Filmography
- Prelude to Madness (1948)
- Empty Eyes (Il sole negli occhi) (1953)
- Girandola 1910 – Episode of Mid-Century Loves (Amori di mezzo secolo) (1953)
- The Bachelor (Lo scapolo) (1955)
- Souvenirs d'Italie (Souvenir d'Italie) (1957)
- March's Child (Nata di marzo) (1958)
- Adua and Her Friends (Adua e le compagne) (1960)
- Ghosts of Rome (Fantasmi a Roma) (1961)
- The Girl from Parma (La parmigiana) (1963)
- La visita (1963)
- The Magnificent Cuckold (Il magnifico cornuto) (1964)
- I Knew Her Well (Io la conoscevo bene) (1965)
- Fata Marta – Episode of Sex Quartet (Le fate) (1966)
- How, When and with Whom (Come, quando, perché) (1969)
References
Further reading
- Pinkerton, Nick (3 December 2015). "A Kind of Loving". ARTFORUM. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
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External links
- Antonio Pietrangeli at IMDb
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- Alessandro Blasetti / Vittorio De Sica (1946)
- Roberto Rossellini (1947)
- Alberto Lattuada / Giuseppe De Santis (1948)
- Vittorio De Sica (1949)
- Augusto Genina (1950)
- Alessandro Blasetti (1951)
- Renato Castellani (1952)
- Luigi Zampa (1953)
- Federico Fellini (1954)
- Federico Fellini (1955)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1956)
- Pietro Germi (1957)
- Federico Fellini (1958)
- Pietro Germi (1959)
- Roberto Rossellini (1960)
- Luchino Visconti (1961)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
- Nanni Loy / Francesco Rosi (1963)
- Federico Fellini (1964)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1965)
- Antonio Pietrangeli (1966)
- Gillo Pontecorvo (1967)
- Elio Petri (1968)
- Franco Zeffirelli (1969)
- Luchino Visconti (1970)
- Elio Petri (1971)
- Luchino Visconti (1972)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (1973)
- Federico Fellini (1974)
- Luchino Visconti (1975)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1976)
- Valerio Zurlini (1977)
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1978)
- Ermanno Olmi (1979)
- Federico Fellini (1980)
- Francesco Rosi (1981)
- Marco Ferreri (1982)
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1983)
- Pupi Avati / Federico Fellini (1984)
- Sergio Leone (1985)
- Mario Monicelli (1986)
- Ettore Scola (1987)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (1988)
- Ermanno Olmi (1989)
- Pupi Avati (1990)
- Gianni Amelio (1991)
- Gabriele Salvatores (1992)
- Gianni Amelio (1993)
- Nanni Moretti (1994)
- Gianni Amelio (1995)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (1996)
- Maurizio Nichetti (1997)
- Roberto Benigni (1998)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (1999)
- Silvio Soldini (2000)
- Nanni Moretti (2001)
- Marco Bellocchio (2002)
- Gabriele Salvatores (2003)
- Marco Tullio Giordana (2004)
- Gianni Amelio (2005)
- Michele Placido (2006)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (2007)
- Paolo Virzì (2008)
- Paolo Sorrentino (2009)
- Paolo Virzì (2010)
- Nanni Moretti (2011)
- Paolo Sorrentino (2012)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (2013)
- Paolo Virzì (2014)
- Paolo Sorrentino (2015)
- Paolo Virzì (2016)
- Gianni Amelio (2017)
- Matteo Garrone (2018)
- Marco Bellocchio (2019)
- Matteo Garrone (2020)
- Emma Dante (2021)
- Mario Martone (2022)
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