Antonio Pietrangeli
Antonio Pietrangeli ( born January 19, 1919 in Rome, † July 12, 1968 in Gaeta, Lazio ) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life
Pietrangeli began after a degree in medicine to write a film critic and supplied numerous magazines such as " Bianco e Nero ", " Cinema ", " Si gira ", "Star " and the " Revue du Cinema". Even in times of war he was assistant director on two films; afterwards he wrote lyrics for a documentary by Alberto Lattuada and worked in various functions and with other key filmmakers of the postwar era together by Luchino Visconti and Gianni Franciolini about Pietro Germi and Roberto Rossellini up to Luigi Comencini and again Alessandro Blasetti. Multiple responsible for the screenplays of these works, he presented his debut work in 1953 with Il sole negli occhi in which a country girl decides to take a life in the metropolis and is disappointed; a first of the typical Pietrangeli portraits of women, which are the focus of his comparatively few works.
Other outstanding films Pietrangeli were the comedy The marriage candidate (La visita ) with Sandra Milo and François Périer, which was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 1964 and the I regarded as his most successful work knew them well (Io la conoscevo bene ), for which he Nastro d' Argento in 1966 received the best director performance. He died in 1968 not yet 50 years old by a swimming accident at the filming of Come, quando, perché ended by Valerio Zurlini.
Pietrangeli's son is the actor Paolo Pietrangeli.