Carlo Egidi

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Carlo Egidi (born May 20, 1918 in Rome , † February 2, 1989 in Milan ) was an Italian film architect .

Life

Egidi, one of the leading set designers in post-war Italian cinema, received his professional training at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome until 1940 . He then gained practical experience as an assistant to the film architect Guido Fiorini (e.g. in 1943 at Nessuno torna indietro ) in this profession. In 1946, Carlo Egidi helped build Vittorio de Sica's shoe shine , an early masterpiece of neo-realistic cinema, and rose to become chief architect the following year. In the following years he was entrusted with production design assignments for some of the central works of neorealist cinema, including the two Giuseppe De Santis productionsTragic Hunt and Bitter Rice , two films that also received a lot of international attention, and Achtung! Banditi! , a gripping resistance drama by Carlo Lizzani .

Egidi also later designed the structures for a number of films by well-known directors who were important for Italian cinema, including Pietro Germi , Mario Monicelli , Mauro Bolognini , Marco Ferreri , Francesco Rosi , Elio Petri and Alberto Lattuada . Egidi's film sets supplied some of the most important and high-quality cinema productions “with often socially committed and / or political statements”. His later drafts for films since the mid-1960s, on the other hand, were often little more than routine commissioned work, including comedies with Marcello Mastroianni , Sophia Loren , Stefania Sandrelli , Adriano Celentano and Dustin Hoffman .

Filmography

  • 1947: Tragic Hunt ( Caccia tragica )
  • 1948: bitter rice ( Riso amore )
  • 1949: Vendetta ( Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi )
  • 1951: Warning! Banditi!
  • 1952: The she-wolf of Calabria ( La lupa )
  • 1953: Gelosia
  • 1955: Un eroe di nostri tempi
  • 1956: The red signal ( Il ferroviere )
  • 1956: With bowler hat and ice cream gloves ( Parola di ladro )
  • 1957: The betrothed of death (I fidanzati della morte)
  • 1957: And sin lurks outside ( L'uomo di paglia )
  • 1959: Thieves are people too ( Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti )
  • 1959: We from the street ( La notte brava )
  • 1959: Under smooth skin ( Un maledetto imbroglio )
  • 1960: The way back ( Tutti a casa )
  • 1960: When life beckons ( Una giornata balorda )
  • 1960: The long night of 43 ( La lunga notte del '43 )
  • 1961: Do you trust Alfredo to murder? ( L'assassino ) (also film role)
  • 1961: Divorce in Italian ( Divorzio all'italiana )
  • 1961: Despair every day ( Giorno per giorno disperatamente )
  • 1961: who shot Salvatore G.? ( Salvatore Giuliano )
  • 1962: La banda Casaroli
  • 1962: Il mafioso
  • 1963: Seduction in Italian ( Sedotto e abbandonata )
  • 1963: The Naked ( La noia )
  • 1964: Controsesso
  • 1964: Wedding in Italian ( Matrimonio all'italiana )
  • 1965: But, but, gentlemen ... ( Signore e signori )
  • 1965: Mandragola ( La mandragola )
  • 1965: Break-Up ( Oggi, domani e dopodomani )
  • 1967: Immoral life is better ( L'immorale )
  • 1968: Serafino, the womanizer ( Il Serafino )
  • 1969: Investigations against a citizen who is above suspicion ( Indagino su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto )
  • 1970: Le castagne sono buone
  • 1972: Alfredo, Alfredo ( Alfredo, Alfredo )
  • 1974: Amore amaro
  • 1975: The Big One ( Baby Sitter )

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. 522.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 522.

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personal data
SURNAME Egidi, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1989
Place of death Milan , Italy