Fabrizio Costa

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Fabrizio Costa (born May 31, 1954 in Trieste ) is an Italian television director .

Life

Costa was an assistant to Luchino Visconti and Pier Paolo Pasolini at a very young age . In 1989 he made his first appearance as a director: alternating with Cesare Bastelli , he directed the series È proibito ballare and was subsequently engaged for numerous other series, which he carried out with greater effort and with a remarkable style.

In 1997 he began a successful series of individual films, among which Senza confini in particular . La storia del commissario Patalucci stands out, a “rigorous analysis of facts and fictions which he staged with a view to being used in the cinema without the typical television forms”.

Towards the end of the decade, he turned back to (large budgeted) shows like Don Matteo and Donna Detective .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1995: Flames of Love (Il grande fuoco)
  • 1998: Tristan and Isolde - A life for eternity (Tristano e Isotta)
  • 1999: The Czar's Courier (Michele Strogoff - il corriere dello zar)
  • 2000: Maria, daughter of her son (Maria, figlia del suo figlio)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 122
  2. http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?r=19265