Stelio Passacantando

Stelio Passacantando (born 1927 in Rome , † January 13, 2010 in Nemi ) was an Italian cartoonist and film director .

Passacantando graduated from the Accademia Belle Arti in the Italian capital. After starting out in painting, he switched to animated and experimental film. In Great Britain he worked for a few years on the National Film Board with George Dunning and, from 1963, staged television cartoon sketches in Milan, later also drew for ZDF and collaborated with the “Studio Gianini-Luzzati”. He directed many short cartoons for the RAI , and in the 1980s put those based on the music of Tchaikovsky resp. Stravinsky incurred La storia dello schiaccianoci , L'uccello di fuoco and Petrushka before and was presented in accordance with a work by Pablo Neruda realized Il generale all'inferno responsible in 1984, a held in black and white paintings hell of war. Two feature films were made in 1991 and 1995, Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca based on Vamba and Alice nel paese delle meraviglie based on Lewis Carroll .

Filmography (selection)

• 1991: Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca
• 1995: Alice nel paese delle meraviglie

Web links

• Stelio Passacantando in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Article on Passacantando in the Raporto Confidenziale

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome, Gremese 2002, p. 325
3. ↑ Memories of Stelio Passacantando at Asifa Italia ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.