Francisco José Lombardi

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Francisco José Lombardi (2000)

Francisco José Lombardi (born August 3, 1947 in Tacna , Peru ) is a Peruvian film director and film producer .

Life

Lombardi studied in 1968 at the Santa Fe film school in Argentina, founded by Fernando Birri . After the military closed the film school, he worked as a film critic. In 1974 he founded the production company Inca Films and published several short films that won awards.

His feature film debut Death at Dawn, starring Gustavo Rodríguez, is dedicated to the death penalty and won an award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1977. He had his first success in 1985 with The City and the Dogs . The Goya award-winning Sky over Lima from 1990 is set at the time of neoliberalism . He received a Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastián Film Festival for Under the Skin . No se lo digas a nadie (1998) deals with homosexuality and gender relations .

Many of his films are based on works of Peruvian literature, which in turn tell of true events. While The City and the Dogs is based on the novel of the same name by Mario Vargas Llosa , The Sky over Lima is the film adaptation of a screenplay by the Peruvian writer Giovanna Pollarolo , to whom Lombardi was married. His second marriage is to actress Tatiana Astengo .

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SURNAME Lombardi, Francisco José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lombardi, Francisco J .; Lombardi, Francisco; Pancho (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacna , Peru