Amleto Palermi
Amleto Palermi (also Amleto Palèrmi ; born July 11, 1889 in Rome , † April 20, 1941 ibid) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Life
Palermi grew up in Palermo from the age of six months , where his father was the editor of the Giornale di Sicilia , and when he was almost twenty he wrote plays in the Sicilian dialect such as U lupu , Amuri foddi or Il tesoro d'isacco . In 1913 he moved to Rome, but after a short period as a journalist he was hired by the Turin- based production company "Gloria Film", for which he worked primarily as a director, but also as a screenwriter for other game directors. Within a short time he developed into an esteemed and distinguished filmmaker who worked with all the great actors of the silent film era such as Mario Bonnard , Lyda Borelli , Livio Pavanelli , Pina Menichelli and Ruggero Ruggeri . He was certified as a competent actor, constant search for unfamiliar solutions, creative handling of narrative structures and (later) also the skilful use of music and late vengeance (including dialect). During the crisis in Italian cinema in 1926, he found employment in Germany and Austria. With the emergence of talkies, he went back to Rome, where he directed around 35 more films up to the beginning of the Second World War, initially a few Italian-language versions of foreign productions, then - from around 1932 - with great artistic freedom, works based on his own script, in which he was now also responsible for the editing. His work with comedians such as Totò and Angelo Musco became particularly well known . He died relatively young at the age of 51.
In 1940 Palermi was voted best Italian director by Cinema magazine. He had three children with his wife Ida Molinato; his son Filippo (who was a child actor in his father's Il paradiso as "Mimmo" ) died at a very young age in 1925.
Filmography (selection)
- 1914: L'orrendo blasone
- 1926: The escape into the night
- 1936: Il corsaro nero
- 1941: L'elisir d'amore
Web links
- Amleto Palermi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography at mymovies
- ↑ Amleto Palermi at Treccani.it
- ^ Dizionario del cinema italiano. Testi e strumenti per la scuola e l'università. Volume 1: Roberto Poppi: I registi. Dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Nuova edizione. Gremese, Rome 2002, ISBN 88-8440-171-2 , p. 317.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palermi, Amleto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palèrmi, Amleto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1941 |
| Place of death | Rome |