Antonio Pietrangeli was an Italian

Italy

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 film director

Film director

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. Pietrangeli was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana

Commedia all'italiana

Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti in 1958 and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana .-Stars:Vittorio Gassman, Ugo...

 genre.

Biography

He started writing film reviews for famous Italian cinema magazines such as Bianco e nero and Cinema. As a screenwriter, Pietrangeli's work included Ossessione

Ossessione

Ossessione is a 1943 film based on the novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain. Luchino Visconti’s first feature film, it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate.- Historical context...

directed by Visconti

Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...

, Fabiola

Fabiola

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by Blasetti

Alessandro Blasetti

Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole...

, Europa '51

Europa '51

Europa '51 is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and Alexander Knox.-Background:...

by Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini

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, and La lupa

La lupa

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by Lattuada

Alberto Lattuada

Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...

.

His directing debut was Il sole negli occhi

Il sole negli occhi

Il sole negli occhi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....

(1953). Career highlights include Io la conoscevo bene

Io la conoscevo bene

Io la conoscevo bene or I Knew Her Well is a 1965 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli and starring Stefania Sandrelli.-Awards:...

(1965) and Adua e le compagne

Adua e le compagne

Adua and Friends is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola and Tullio Pinelli...

(1960).

He died in a car accident in 1969 while working on Come, quando, perché, which was completed by Valerio Zurlini

Valerio Zurlini

Valerio Zurlini was an Italian film director, stage director and screenwriter.-Biography:During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party...

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Filmography

• 1953: Il sole negli occhi
  Il sole negli occhi
  Il sole negli occhi is a 1953 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  
• 1953: Girandola 1910 – Episode of Amori di mezzosecolo
• 1955: Lo scapolo
• 1957: Nata di marzo
  Nata di marzo
  Nata di marzo is a 1957 Italian film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti....
  
  
• 1957: It Happened in Rome (Souvenir d’Italie)
• 1960: Adua e le compagne
  Adua e le compagne
  Adua and Friends is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola and Tullio Pinelli...
  
  
• 1961: Ghosts of Rome
  Ghosts of Rome
  -Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Reginaldo / Federico di Roviano / Gino* Vittorio Gassman - Caparra, pittore del '600, rivale del Caravaggio* Belinda Lee - Eileen* Sandra Milo - Donna Flora* Eduardo De Filippo - Don Annibale, Principe di Roviano...
  
  (Fantasmi a Roma)
• 1963: La parmigiana
• 1963: La visita
  La visita
  La visita is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Sandra Milo - Pina* François Périer - Adolfo Di Palma * Mario Adorf - Cucaracha...
  
  
• 1964: The Magnificent Cuckold
  The Magnificent Cuckold
  The Magnificent Cuckold or Il magnifico cornuto is a 1965 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli and based on the Belgian play Le Cocu magnifique.-Plot:...
  
  (Il magnifico cornuto)
• 1965: Io la conoscevo bene
  Io la conoscevo bene
  Io la conoscevo bene or I Knew Her Well is a 1965 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli and starring Stefania Sandrelli.-Awards:...
  
  
• 1966: Fata Marta – Episodio de Le fate
• 1969: How, When and with Whom (Come, quando, perché)

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