Andrea Crisanti

Andrea Crisanti ( born June 12, 1936 in Rome, † May 7, 2012 ) was an Italian art director.

Career

Crisanti studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Italian capital. After some time, in which he tried his hand as a painter, he turned to the work for the cinema, and has been involved for Mario Garbuglia as an assistant at his first films ( his debut presents It was called the great war of 1959 represents ), later he worked for other colleagues. In his own responsibility, he built the first time for Riccardo Freda's Maciste, the avenger of the damned, and then looked again and again for theaters. As highlights of his works are, inter alia, incurred for director Francesco Rosi films of the 1970s, but also Cinema Paradiso and Una pura formalità, for which he David di Donatello was awarded the - 2005 he received it again for Cuore sacro. Particularly frequently and gladly he worked in Sicily.

Anti Crist works with almost all major Italian directors; so he created works for Giuseppe Tornatore, Sergio Leone, Andrei Tarkovsky, Franco Zeffirelli, Michelangelo Antonioni, Gianni Amelio, Sergio Citti and Ferzan Ozpetek. Since the early 1990s, he worked as a lecturer at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and was the president of his professional representation ASC

2002 Crisanti won a Silver Ribbon for his equipment on Il consiglio d' Egitto.