Giancarlo Santi

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Giancarlo Santi (born October 7, 1939 in Rome ) is an Italian film director .

Life

After finishing school, Santi attended the Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali , where he graduated in political science . From 1960 he continued his education in animation film , doing internships in Warsaw and in Jiří Trnka's Prague studio. As the founder of the “Istituto Italiano del Documentario” (IDI), he took care of the distribution of animated films from these countries in Italy in the following years. Since 1958, he has been an assistant director for feature films by Gian Vittorio Baldi and important directors such as Marco Ferreri , Sergio Leone , Luigi Comencini , Ermanno Olmi and Glauber Rocha , and has worked as the production manager for many documentary films - he has also made films himself since 1967 - and for Franco Brocani's Necropolis 1970.

His directorial debut was planned for Death Melody , for which Sergio Leone suggested him. Under pressure from the producers, it was Leone himself who gave the instructions (and Santi remained the second unit director); also later on My Name is Nobody , where Leone preferred the more experienced Tonino Valerii . In between lay Santis debut, a spaghetti western , technically successful and well-budgeted, but not very original. In 1978 the satirical Paolo Villaggio film Quando c'era lui… caro lei! . Twenty years would pass before he shot Antonio Magarotto's biography , which was shown at some festivals.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, pp. 385/386
personal data
SURNAME Santi, Giancarlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome