Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Ferdinando Maria Poggioli (born December 15, 1897 in Bologna , † February 2, 1945 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and film editor .
life and work
After completing a degree in economics at the University of Venice , Poggioli came into contact with film at the end of the 1920s while working for the magazine "Cinematografo" for which Alessandro Blasetti was responsible. In 1930 he switched to the active side; He made his own documentaries ( Presepi , Paestum and Impressione siciliane between 1931 and 1933) and became a film editor through stations as a script boy and assistant director .
In 1936 he made his debut work as a feature film director, but like the three years later Richezza senza domani , Arma bianca had no particular merits. With Addio, giovinezza! was able to convince Poggioli with his own style and a careful feeling for the staged stories and people. The impossible love story of a seamstress and a student in Turin at the beginning of the 20th century was filmed based on the comedy by Camasio and Oxilia; Also based on a literary model, Flavia Steno's novel La servetta di Masone , Sissignora was published in 1942 , in which a country maid fails because of the cynicism of the inhabitants of the city of Genoa . Jealousy ( Gelosia ) has been regarded as Poggioli's key work since the 1970s (until then it was hardly received and its role as a link between the films of Telefoni Bianchi and neorealism as its pioneer was hardly noticed ). Also in Italian cinemas in 1942 , the dramatic film, based on Luigi Capuana's Il marchese di Roccaverdina , tells of the wild and unbridled passion of a nobleman and a servant.
His other films are also interesting (e.g. La morte civile , Sorelle Materassi ), but do not come close to the works mentioned. In 1943 he left the film industry because he was unwilling to make artistic compromises for political reasons and ran a second-hand bookshop for a few months. In early February 1945 he committed suicide using gas.
Filmography (selection)
- 1936: Arma bianca
- 1939: Richezza senza domani
- 1940: Addio, giovinezza!
- 1941: La morte civile
- 1942: Sissignora
- 1942: jealousy (Gelosia)
- 1943: Sorelle Materassi
- 1944: Il has prete
Web links
- Ferdinando Maria Poggioli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry on Poggioli at Torino Città del Cinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefania Carpiceci: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli in the Enciclopedia Treccani
- ↑ Poggioli at mymovies.it
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 341
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poggioli, Ferdinando Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1945 |
| Place of death | Rome |