Raffaello Pacini

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Raffaello Pacini (* 1899 in Pistoia , † 1964 in Rome ) was an Italian documentary filmmaker and film director .

Pacini began his career in the film business in the second half of the 1930s as an assistant director , then devoted himself to a few documentaries and from 1947 a handful of feature films as a screenwriter and occasional director with a bias towards religious subjects, including Giorgio Albertazzi’s debut , Lorenzaccio from the year 1951 and the monumental film The Battle of Marathon 1959. Pacini continued his documentary activities on Italian television.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1947: La monaca di Monza
  • 1959: Lorenzaccio
  • 1960: Francis and Clare (La tragica notte di Assisi)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome, Gremese 2002, p. 316
  2. so z. B. 1959 with Mille papaveri rossi