Andrea Crisanti

Andrea Crisanti (born June 12, 1936 in Rome ; † May 7, 2012 in Rome ) was an Italian film architect .

Career

Crisanti studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Italian capital. After some time trying to paint, he turned to work for the cinema and was involved in his first films as an assistant for Mario Garbuglia (his debut is Man Called It The Great War from 1959), later he also worked for other colleagues. On his own responsibility he built for Riccardo Fredas Maciste, the avenger of the damned , for the first time and then worked again and again for theaters. The highlights of his work include: a. the 1970s films for director Francesco Rosi , but also Cinema Paradiso and Una pura formalità , for which he was awarded the David di Donatello - in 2005 he received it again for Cuore sacro . He worked particularly often and with pleasure in Sicily.

Cristanti works with almost all major Italian directors; thus works for Giuseppe Tornatore , Sergio Leone , Andrej Tarkowskij , Franco Zeffirelli , Michelangelo Antonioni , Gianni Amelio , Sergio Citti and Ferzan Özpetek were created . Since the beginning of the 1990s he has also been a lecturer at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and was the president of its ASC professional agency

In 2002 Crisanti received a silver ribbon for his decoration from Il consiglio d'Egitto .

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 204.

Web links

• Andrea Crisanti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary in the Giornale dello spettacolo (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CSC website