Amleto Palermi

Amleto Palermi (also Amleto Palermi; born July 11, 1889 in Rome, † April 20, 1941 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life

Palermi grew from the age of six months in Palermo, where his father was editor of the Giornale di Sicilia, and wrote almost twenty years plays in Sicilian dialect as U lupu, Amuri Foddi or Il tesoro d' Isacco. In 1913 he moved to Rome, was but was obliged after a brief period as a journalist from the Turin-based production company " Gloria movie," for which he worked as a director, but also as a screenwriter for other game manager in the first place. Within a short time he became a valued and distinguished filmmaker, who worked with all representational sizes of the silent film era as Mario Bonnard, Lyda Borelli, Livio Pavanelli, Pina Menichelli and Ruggero Ruggeri. This sovereign actor leadership, constant search for unusual solutions, creative approach to narrative structure, and ( later) also attests to the skillful use of music and Sptrache (down to the dialect) it were. During the crisis of Italian cinema in 1926 he found employment in Germany and Austria. With the advent of Tonfilmes he again went to Rome, where he has staged more around 35 films until the beginning of World War II, first some Italian -language versions of foreign productions, then - from about 1932 - in great artistic freedom works at its own script, which he now was also responsible for the cut. Particularly well known were his work with comedians such as Totò and Angelo Musco. He died relatively young at the age of 51 years.

1940 Palermi was chosen by the magazine " Cinema" the best Italian film director. With his wife Ida Molinato he had three children; his son Filippo (who was known as " Mimmo " child actor in his father's Il paradiso ) died very young in 1925.

Filmography (selection)