Damiano Damiani
Damiano Damiani ( born July 23, 1922 in Pasiano di Pordenone, Friuli - Venezia Giulia, Italy, † March 7, 2013 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Life
In Milan Damiani studied at the art school. He was active politically and drew comics, billboards and posters. This was followed by first employees of documentaries. In 1953 he went to Rome and met Cesare Zavattini know, the Damiani made known to the cinematic neorealism. Before he worked as an independent director, he also worked as a co- writer for several movies.
Damiani's films often deal with the integration of politics and mafia. Addition, he filmed action movies. As a template of his films he used like novels by famous authors such as Alberto Moravia. For television, he made films about the Mafia. Thus, the series was an international success The Octopus with Michele Placido. Despite or because of this success, the TV series had many opponents.
His greatest success Damiani in the late sixties / early seventies with the Mafia movies " The Day of the Owl ," "The clan that einmauert his enemies alive ',' method set - forget it " and " Why did die Attorney Traini ". The main role was played by Franco Nero always. " The clan, the einmauert his enemies alive " was very successful not only in his country of origin but attracted broad international attention.
Unlike his contemporary, also at this time very successful Francesco Rosi be Damiani concentrated not only to identify the structures of the mafia, but turned very emotional thriller and detective stories in which the organizations mostly remained in the background and only their actions and tangles gradually were shown by the protagonists. Damiani convincingly proving his talent in the composition and camera work.