Fernando Cerchio
Fernando Cerchio ( born August 7, 1914 in Luserna San Giovanni; † August 19, 1974 in Mentana ) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and producer.
Life
Cerchio studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti. He was interested in experimental films and aroused in 1936 with the animated film Notturno the attention of film critics. Since 1937, he studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia at Alessandro Blasetti.
Since 1938, Cerchio worked for the Istituto Luce, for which he produced several documentaries. The film Comacchio was awarded in Venice and Paris. His first major feature film, which he also wrote the screenplay, which Cenerentola (1948 ). By 1972, created more than thirty feature films, including Gente così from a script by Giovanni Guareschi and the crime film Il bivio. In addition, Cerchio turned to the mid-1950s, numerous documentaries.
Filmography
Documentary
- Carbonia, 1940
- Fontana di Trevi, 1941
- Ragazze sotto la tenda ( with Enrico Fulchignoni ), 1942
- Ritorno al Vittoriale, 1942
- La scuola del cinema 1942
- Rifugi alpini, 1942
- Comacchio, 1942
- Artigiani fiorentini, 1943
- Melodie d' Italia ( Capri, Firenze, Roma, Napoli ), 1946
- Il messaggio divino, 1947
- Il cavaliere a Napoli, 1947
- Ave Maria, 1947
- Pascoli Eterni, 1947
- Tre tempi veneziani, 1947
- Toscana eterna ( with Raffaello Pacini ), 1947
- Largo al factotum (con puppet ), 1949
- Strada facendo, 1949
- La città di Stendhal, 1949
- Nel parco Concerto, 1949
- Cioccolato, 1950
- Il natale degli Zampognari, 1950
- Gianduia a Torino, 1950
- Storia del caffè, 1952
- I pescatori, 1956-57
- Noi cani, 1956-57
- Sinfonia romana, 1956-57