Marcello Pagliero

Marcello Pagliero ( born January 15, 1907 in London, † December 9, 1980 in Paris) was an Italian- French film director, screenwriter and actor.

Life and work

The London-born son of a Genoese father and a French mother grew up in Italy since 1914. After studying law Pagliero joined the newspaper and worked as an art and literary critic. In the film, he initially worked in the synchronous area and participated from 1940 to screenplays and story designs. At the time of the fall of Mussolini (1943 ) Marcello Pagliero began to work as a director. His first film, 07 ... tassi who responded to the war situation in Italy, had a complicated production history, was terminated from others and only came in 1946 in the cinemas. After several documentaries, he was also involved in the formation of the neo-realist cinema. In Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece Rome, Open City, he worked with as an actor: Pagliero played the key role of the Manfredi, one of the leaders of the anti -fascist resistance. In Rossellini's Paisà (1946 ), he participated in the story template. For this he received an Oscar nomination in 1950.

1947 moved the Italians in the land of his mother and settled in Paris. There he continued his work as an actor and as a director. The bulk of his productions is of minor importance, only his adaptation of Sartre's play The Respectful Prostitute provided in performance in 1953 for all sorts of excitement and made the director known internationally. His follow- productions, often speculative trash, are almost meaningless. 1955 Pagliero filmed in New Guinea, four years out in the Soviet Union.

Marcello Pagliero also worked for the theater. So he asked, for example, a performance of La Mandragola at the Teatro delle Arti in Rome on the legs. As a director he worked after 1960 only for television.

Filmography

Unless otherwise specified as a director