Guido Fiorini

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Guido Fiorini (born July 1, 1897 in Bologna , † January 4, 1966 in Rome , ibid) was an Italian architect and film architect .

Life

Fiorini trained as an engineer shortly after the end of the First World War , issued his own construction plans in the Salon d'automne in Paris in the 1920s and also worked there as a house designer. In this context, Fiorini was also involved in the country's first skyscraper in 1928 with its own metal structure for vertical structures. At that time, Fiorini collaborated as an architect with the famous urban planner Le Corbusier on the redesign of Algeria's capital, Algiers . In addition, Guido Fiorini, who had developed into an important exponent of Futurism , held lectures in architecture as a lecturer and later (from 1938) also taught at the Italian film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Back at home in Italy, Fiorini u. a. 1929 Apartment buildings in Rome's garden city (1929) and two bank buildings in Bari and Agrigento, 1931. In the same year he joined the Movimento italiano per l'architettura rationale and later exhibited his own designs again in galleries. In 1933, Fiorini was chosen by the Ministry of Aviation to design the largest hangar in the world for Milan Linate Airport .

Guido Fiorini joined the cinema in the same year. In the following two decades he supplied a large number of entertainment films by experienced director veterans of the Mussolini era such as Alessandro Blasetti , Guido Brignone , Carmine Gallone , Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Mario Camerini with his film construction drafts. After the war, he mainly designed Mario Soldati's productions , but also the neorealistic production “ The Crime of Giovanni Episcopo ” by Alberto Lattuada , Riccardo Freda's two-part adaptation of Victor Hugo's drama “ Les Misérables ” and Vittorio de Sicas received unequal criticism Everyday fairy tale “ The Miracle of Milan ” , with which neorealist cinema came to an end in 1950, were supplied by Fiorini. For the performance shown there, Fiorini received the Silver Ribbon in 1951 . When he was not filming, Guido Fiorini continued to work as an architect and designed numerous villas in Rome and on the Riviera .

Filmography

  • 1934: Come le foglie
  • 1934: Teresa Confalonieri
  • 1935: Aldebaran
  • 1935: Passaporte rosso
  • 1935: Quei due
  • 1936: La gondole aux chimères
  • 1936: The white squadron ( Lo squadrone bianco )
  • 1937: Marcella
  • 1937: De drie wensen ( I tre desideri )
  • 1938: Rival of the Tsarina ( La Tarakanova )
  • 1938: Terre de feu
  • 1938: You own my heart
  • 1938: Three women around Verdi ( Giuseppe Verdi )
  • 1939: Into the blue life (also Italian original verse Castelli in aria )
  • 1939: Premiere of the Butterfly
  • 1939: The sin of Rogelia Sanchez ( Il peccato di Rogelia Sanchez )
  • 1939: In the red hell ( Carmen fra i rossi )
  • 1939: Nightingale of San Marco ( Il carnevale di Venezia )
  • 1939: Alarm in the department store ( I grandi magazzini )
  • 1940: Manon Lescaut
  • 1940: Abandoned ( Abbandono )
  • 1940: Melody of love ( Melodie eterne / Amami, Alfredo! )
  • 1940: Girls in Need ( L'amante segreta )
  • 1941: Primo amore
  • 1941: Giungla (also German verse. Gone by Fate )
  • 1941: Homeless ( Le due orfanelle )
  • 1942: Turbamento
  • 1942: Odessa in fiamme
  • 1942: Knock-Out ( Harlem )
  • 1943: Nessuno torna indietro
  • 1943: La locandiera
  • 1947: The crime of Giovanni Episcopo ( Il delitto di giovanni Episcopo )
  • 1947: I miserabili
  • 1948: Gli uomini sono nemici
  • 1948: I pirati di Capri
  • 1949: The Golden Madonna
  • 1949: La leggenda di Faust
  • 1950: The Miracle of Milan ( Miracolo a Milano )
  • 1951: OK Nero ( OK Nerone )
  • 1951: Zorro, the hero ( Il sogno di Zorro )
  • 1952: Mandrin, the king of the rebels ( Le avventure di Mandrin )
  • 1952: Men without tears ( La voce del silenzio )
  • 1953: Tempi nostri ( Tempi nostri )
  • 1954: Madonne delle rose
  • 1955: A woman for weak hours ( La bella mugnaia )
  • 1955: Apartment with every comfort ( Gli ultimi cinque minuti )
  • 1956: Tosca
  • 1959: Carthage in Flames ( Cartagine in Flame )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Referring to treccani.it, the Italian Wikipedia gives completely different life dates: * July 1, 1891 in Bologna, † December 28, 1965 in Paris

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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 685.

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personal data
SURNAME Fiorini, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and film architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1966
Place of death Rome , Italy