Piero Ballerini
Piero Ballerini (born March 20, 1901 in Como , † June 30, 1955 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Life
Ballerini worked for some time as an assistant director, mainly in France, before directing his first film, La freccia d'oro , in collaboration with Corrado D'Erico in 1935 . Among his films, which he directed until 1946 and for which he mostly wrote the screenplay, there is the Piccolo hotel , which was highly praised by critics at the time, and a version by Lucia di Lammermoor . Towards the end of the war, like many others, he accepted the invitation of the Republic of Salo and went to Venice , where he was only able to complete Una fatto di cronaca . After the Second World War he limited himself to a few scripts and his last work, a film that was co-directed in 1954 as La vecchia dama and published five years later as Peppino e le nobile dama .
Filmography (selection)
- 1935: La freccia d'oro
- 1939: Piccolo hotel
- 1944: Una fatto di cronaca
- 1946: Lucia di Lammermoor
- 1954: Peppino e la nobile dama
Web links
- Piero Ballerini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Piero Ballerini on MyMovies (Italian).
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 39
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ballerini, Piero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Como |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1955 |
| Place of death | Rome |