Alfredo Giannetti

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Alfredo Giannetti (born April 16, 1924 in Rome ; † July 30, 1995 there ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who won the Oscar for the best original screenplay for divorce in Italian at the 1963 Academy Awards, together with Ennio De Concini and Pietro Germi .

Life

Giannetti started as a screenwriter in film productions in the mid-1950s and wrote the plot for the film drama Curse of Beauty by Giuseppe De Santis for the first time in 1953 . In the following years he wrote the scripts for more than 30 other film and television productions. One of the first collaborations with director Pietro Germi was The Red Signal (1956).

For the screenplay for Unter smooth Haut (Un maledetto imbroglio, 1959), he and Ennio De Concini and director Pietro Germi received the first Nastro d'Argento for the best screenplay by the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI) in 1960 .

The screenplay for divorce in Italian (Divorzio all'italiana, 1961), also written jointly by De Concini and director Germi , won not only another Nastro d'Argento for best screenplay in 1962, but also an Oscar in 1963 for the best original screenplay excellent.

At the beginning of the 1960s he was also active as a film director and, after his debut film Day by Day Despair (Giorno per giorno disperatamente, 1961) , he staged over a dozen other films such as Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 (1971) and worked with actors like Mario Brega ( Despair Day after Day ), Tony Anthony and Annie Girardot ( The Borrowed Girl , 1966), Dalila Di Lazzaro and Franco Nero ( The Bandit With Blue Eyes , 1982) together.

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Director

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 206
personal data
SURNAME Giannetti, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1995
Place of death Rome