Italian film director and screenwriter
Antonio Pietrangeli
Pietrangeli in 1953
Born (1919-01-19 ) 19 January 1919Died 12 July 1968(1968-07-12) (aged 49) Occupations
Film director
screenwriter
Years active 1941–1968
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 Europe '51 directed by Roberto Rossellini .
Pietrangeli's own directing debut was Empty Eyes , a 1953 film starring Gabriele Ferzetti . This was followed by the Alberto Sordi comedies The Bachelor (1956) and Souvenirs d'Italie (1957).
The director's career highlights include Adua and Her Friends (1960), a drama with Marcello Mastroianni and Simone Signoret , the supernatural comedy Ghosts of Rome (1961), again with Mastroianni, The Magnificent Cuckold (1964), a comedy of adultery starring Claudia Cardinale and Ugo Tognazzi , and the comedy-drama I Knew Her Well (1965) with Stefania Sandrelli .
He won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Director for I Knew Her Well .
Pietrangeli died from drowning by accident in the Gulf of Gaeta in 1968, while working on the film How, When and with Whom . The film was completed by his friend, director Valerio Zurlini .[ 2] [ 3]
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