Ugo Pirro

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Ugo Pirro (born April 24, 1920 in Salerno , † January 18, 2008 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter and writer .

life and career

Pirro, born in Salerno in 1920, wrote his first screenplay for Carlo Lizzani's Achtung, banditi! . During his career he worked on over 50 films; several of them received awards. His greatest successes were two Oscars - in 1970 for investigations against a citizen above suspicion (director: Elio Petri ) and in 1972 for Der Garten der Finzi Contini (director: Vittorio De Sica ), each for the best foreign language film . At the end of the 1950s, Ugo Pirro published the two novels Soldiers Girl in Germany by Rowohlt and Jovanka and the others by Kindler Verlag in Munich. From around 1980 onwards, Pirro turned increasingly to literary works.

Pirro died in Rome in 2008 at the age of 87.

Filmography

script
  • 1958: The man in the shorts (L 'uomo dei calzoni corti)
  • 1960: The hunchback of Rome
  • 1961: Italian capriccio
  • 1966: Fire dance (Svegliati e uccidi (Lutring))
  • 1966: Two coffins to order (A ciascuno il suo)
  • 1967: The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta)
  • 1968: The Mafia Story (Sequestro di persona)
  • 1968: The Battle of the Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi)
  • 1969: Investigations against a citizen who is above suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto)
  • 1970: The garden of the Finzi Contini (Il giardino dei Finzi Contini)
  • 1971: The way of the working class to paradise (La classe operaia va in paradiso)
  • 1971: murder charges against a student (Imputazione di omicidio per uno students)
  • 1972: Russian Summer (Un uomo)
  • 1974: The Crime (Delitto d'amore)
  • 1974: The Revenge of the Camorra (I guappi)
  • 1976: The Ferramonti Legacy (L'eredita Ferramonti)
  • 1977: I am vengeance (Il prefetto di ferro)
  • 1979: Drama of a Return (Povratak)
  • 1987: The boy from Calabria (Un ragazzo di Calabria)
  • 1990: Board games (Gioco di societa)
  • 1993: Battle of the Mafia - The story of Rosario Livatino (Il giudice raggazzino)
  • ; Literary source
  • 1958: Soldier Girls (novel)
  • 1959: Jovanka and the others (novel) (Jovanka e le altre)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ugo Pirro. In: Peter Bondanella. A History of Italian Cinema. , A&C Black, 2009, p. 243
  2. ^ Obituary for Ugo Pirro in The Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Pirro, Ugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Salerno
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2008
Place of death Rome