Claudio Caligari
Claudio Caligari | |
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Born | Arona, Piedmont, Italy | 7 February 1948
Died | 26 May 2015 Rome, Italy | (aged 67)
Occupation | Director |
Claudio Caligari (7 February 1948 – 26 May 2015) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Life and career[]
Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was Perché droga (1975).[1] He made his feature film debut in 1983, with the drug-centered drama Toxic Love, which won the De Sica Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival.[1][2] Only fifteen years later he directed another work, the neo-noir The Scent of the Night.[1] He completed the editing of his third and last film, Non essere cattivo, a few days before his death for a tumor.[3]
Filmography[]
Director and Writer
- Lotte nel Belice (1977)
- Toxic Love (Amore tossico) (1983)
- The Scent of the Night (L'odore della notte) (1998)
- Don't Be Bad (Non essere cattivo) (2015)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
- ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 8877424230.
- ^ "Addio a Claudio Caligari, il ricordo è di Valerio Mastandrea: "Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto"". La Repubblica. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1948 births
- 2015 deaths
- 20th-century Italian people
- Italian film directors
- Italian screenwriters
- People from Arona, Piedmont
- Deaths from cancer in Lazio
- Italian male screenwriters
- Italian film biography stubs