Duilio Coletti

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Duilio Coletti (born December 28, 1906 in Penne , † May 21, 1999 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Coletti graduated in medicine and surgery, and also worked in health care for some time before indulging in his passion for the big screen, born of filming outdoors, and moving to Rome. From 1933 he worked on various scripts and made his debut as a director two years later with the melodrama Pierpin . However, he wasn't able to make his next film until 1939; the adventure film Il fornaretto di Venezia , which he directed under the name of John Bard , was a great success.

After the Second World War he made films of various kinds, often war films , extremely skilled and with great viewing value; his sotto dieci bandiere , created in 1960, is an example of his ability to combine action-packed scenes with psychological depths of acting. From the mid-1960s, only co-directing international films and one unpublished work are on his list of works.

In 1954, Coletti was awarded the OCIC Prize and a special prize from the Berlin Senate for La grande speranza at the Berlin Film Festival .

His son Enrico Coletti (* 1961) is also a film director.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1935: Pierpin (also editing)
  • 1949: The Wolf of the Silver Mountains (Il lupo della Sila)
  • 1950: Toselli Serenade (Romanzo d'amore) (also screenplay)
  • 1952: It started on the street (Wanda la peccatrice)
  • 1953: The Seven of the Big Bear (I sette dell'Orsa maggiore)
  • 1953: El Alamein (Divisione Folgore) (also screenplay)
  • 1954: The great hope (La grande speranza) (also screenplay and production)
  • 1955: London calls North Pole (Londra chiama polo nord) (also screenplay)
  • 1957: Homesickness, barbed wire and good comrades (Gli Italiani sono matti)
  • 1960: Under ten flags (Sotto dieci bandiere) (also screenplay)
  • 1968: Battle of Anzio (Lo sbarco di Anzio) (co-director)
  • 1973: Wild horses (Valdez il mezzosangue) (co-director)
  • 1978: L'uomo di Corleone (unpublished)

literature

  • Giacomo Lichtner: Fascism in Italian cinema since 1945. The politics and aesthetics of memory , Basingstoke u. a. (Palgrave Macmillan) 2013. ISBN 978-0-230-36332-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Gremese, Rome 2002, ISBN 88-8440-171-2 , p. 115.
personal data
SURNAME Coletti, Duilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Penne
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1999
Place of death Rome