Gennaro Righelli
Salvatore Gennaro Righelli (born December 12, 1886 in Salerno , † January 6, 1949 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Live and act
Righelli, son of a Neapolitan father and the Bolognese Maria Galassi, began his professional career in 1902 as an actor at a dialect stage, where his father was also engaged, and in 1911 came to film as a director of short films for the Neapolitan "Vesuvio Film". His first feature films were literary adaptations, period films and melodramas, often with his first wife Maria Mauro, later (from the 1920s) with his partner Maria Jacobini, who was married in 1925, in the lead role.
In 1923, due to the Italian cinema crisis, Righelli moved to Germany and directed several films here without making any particular profile. With the beginning of the sound film age, he returned to Rome. Under Stefano Pittaluga at the new "Cines" film company, he became a typical representative of the Telefoni Bianchi cinema ; His numerous works also include several comedies with Angelo Musco . His last two films To the Devil with Poverty and To the Devil with Wealth with Anna Magnani , on the other hand, are based on neorealism .
His daughter Lea is the mother of the filmmakers Luciano and Sergio Martino.
Filmography (selection)
- 1910: Andreuccio da Perugia
- 1919: La canaglia di Parigi
- 1920: L'innamorata
- 1922: Cainà
- 1924: Taxless
- 1924: Orient - The daughter of the desert
- 1925: The doll queen
- 1925: Catene
- 1925: The bastard
- 1927: The master of the world
- 1927: homesickness
- 1927: Svengali
- 1928: The secret courier
- 1928: The President
- 1928: Women robbery in Morocco
- 1928: Five anxious days
- 1929: The night of horror
- 1929: Sensation in the winter garden
- 1932: The Celestial Fleet (L'armata azzurra)
- 1936: Lo smemorato
- 1945: To hell with poverty (Abbasso la miseria!)
- 1946: To hell with wealth (Abbasso la ricchezza!)
- 1947: Il corriere del re
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 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .
- Francesco Bono: International, diverse, effective. Gennaro Righelli's German films. In: Francesco Bono, Johannes Roschlau (ed.): Tenors, tourists, guest workers. German-Italian film relations. edition text + kritik, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86916-139-6 , pp. 20–34.
Web links
- Gennaro Righelli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome 2002, pp. 359/360
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Righelli, Gennaro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Righelli, Salvatore Gennaro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salerno |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1949 |
| Place of death | Rome |