Guglielmo Giannini

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Guglielmo Giannini (1955)

Guglielmo Giannini (born October 14, 1891 in Pozzuoli , † October 13, 1960 in Rome ) was an Italian playwright, screenwriter , theater and film director and politician.

Life

Giannini initially worked as a journalist; In 1914 he took over the management of “Avanti! Cinematografico ”; after the First World War he founded the film magazine "Kines" in 1919. He worked as a writer, playwright and from 1927 to 1941 as a theater director. In 1944 he founded the weekly magazine L'Uomo qualunque , with which he gave the (not only) political ideas of “qualunquism” a mouthpiece. The movement's political party, the Fronte dell'Uomo Qualunque , was also his foundation. La folla from 1945 is one of his political writings .

As a writer, Giannini published criminalistic dramas (such as Mani in alto , Supergiallo and La sera del sabato ) and plays (such as Il pretore Di Minimis and Ritorno del re ). Between 1935 and 1943 he also made about ten scripts for feature films; In 1938 he made his debut as a director and staged three more works in 1943. The crime film Grattacieli, unusual for its time, based on his own comedy, is the most interesting of these. The last script material was written in 1960.

Filmography (selection)

script

  • 1935: Il serpente a sonagli
  • 1960: Lui, lei e il nonno (idea)

Director

  • 1938: Duetto vagabondo
  • 1943: Grattacieli

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cittadinanze.it/guglielmogiannini
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 206
personal data
SURNAME Giannini, Guglielmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zorro (pseudonym); Vario, Alberto (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian playwright, screenwriter, theater and film director and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Pozzuoli , Italy
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1960
Place of death Rome , Italy