Gianfrancesco Lazotti is an Italian

Italian people

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 film

Film

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  screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and director

Film director

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Born in Rome

Rome

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, Lazotti studied at DAMS

DAMS

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 in Bologna

Bologna

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 and apprenticed as assistant director to many well-known Italian directors, including Ettore Scola and Dino Risi. Meanwhile he launched his own career directing commercials and hosting a show on RAI

RAI

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 radio. In 1987 he made his feature directorial debut with Il mitico Gianluca for Italian TV. Among his subsequent credits: Schiaffi d'amore, Saremo felici, Lo sbaglio, for the omnibus feature Corsica, the TV series Chiara e gli altri

Chiara e gli altri

Chiara e gli altri is an Italian television series....

 (1990), I ragazzi del muretto

I ragazzi del muretto

I ragazzi del muretto is an Italian television series....

, Linda e il brigadiare and the documentary The great Carnival of Venice.

Filmography

• Piazza Navona
  Piazza Navona
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  (1988)
• Chiara e gli altri
  Chiara e gli altri
  Chiara e gli altri is an Italian television series....
  
  (1989)
• Saremo felici (1989)
• Senator (1990)
• Andy e Norman (1991)
• I ragazzi del muretto
  I ragazzi del muretto
  I ragazzi del muretto is an Italian television series....
  
  (1991)
• Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno (1995)
• Linda e il Brigadiere
  Linda e il brigadiere
  Linda e il brigadiere is an Italian television series....
  
  (1997)
• Misteri di Cascina Vienello (1997)
• Linda e il brigadiere 2 (1998)
• Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (1998)
• Valeria medico legale
  Valeria medico legale
  Valeria medico legale is an Italian television series....
  
  (2000)
• Angelo il custode
  Angelo il custode
  Angelo il custode is an Italian television series....
  
  (2001)
• Diritto di difesa (2005)
• Finalmente a casa (2008)
• The great Carnival of Venice (2008)
• From the waist on (2010)