Alfredo Angeli (7 August 1927, in
Livorno – 25 November 2005, in
Rome
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) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Born in
Livorno, Angeli entered the cinema industry in 1958, being the assistant director of
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director.
Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.
He directed several ...
in ''
The City Stands Trial
''The City Stands Trial'' ( it, Processo alla città) is a 1952 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Amedeo Nazzari, is based on a revisiting of the Cuocolo murders and the struggle for control of Naples by the Camorra in th ...
'';
after having collaborated with, among others,
Camillo Mastrocinque
Camillo Mastrocinque (11 May 1901 – 23 April 1969) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 60 films between 1937 and 1968, and is known to horror film fans for directing '' Terror in the Crypt'' (1964) starring ...
and
Vittorio Cottafavi
Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. His film '' Il diavolo sulle colline'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at t ...
, in the early 1960s he started working as a director of commercial, and between the 1960s and the 1990s he directed over 3,000 commercials.
He made his feature film directorial debut in 1967, with the satirical ''
The Strange Night'',
which was entered into the
17th Berlin International Film Festival
The 17th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 23 June – 4 July 1967. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Belgian film '' Le départ'' directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.
Jury
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.
In 1981 he directed a
RAI
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...
TV-series of great success, ''Benedetta & Company''.
Filmography
*1967: ''
The Strange Night''
*1976: ''
Languid Kisses, Wet Caresses''
*1983: ''Benedetta & Company'' (TV)
*1984: ''L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer'' (Co-director)
*1997: ''Con rabbia e con amore''
*1999: ''Giochi pericolosi'' (TV)
*2001: ''Un altro mondo è possibile''
References
External links
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1927 births
2005 deaths
Italian film directors
20th-century Italian screenwriters
People from Livorno
Italian television directors
Italian male screenwriters
20th-century Italian male writers
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