Daniele D'Anza (20 April 1922 – 12 April 1984) was an Italian director, playwright and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in

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, D'Anza started his career on stage, in which he is best known for the direction of the antimilitarist play ''Venticinque metri di fango'' that he presented in Milan in 1946 raising several controversities as well as critical appreciation. Another of his works, the rivista '' Tempo di musica'', a satire of Italian history from the 19030s to the 1950s, was heavily censored, being first banned and later allowed only after having received heavy cuts. He is regarded as a pioneer of Italian television, for which he worked since the early 1950s, when

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started experimental broadcasting before starting the regular TV service. He directed several successful TV-series, in particular '' Il segno del comando'' (1971) and ''L'amaro caso della Baronessa di Carini'' (1976). His last work, the TV miniseries ''La ragazza dell'addio'' was broadcast on RAI posthumously, two months after his dead. He was also active on films, notably working on the screenplay of Michelangelo Antonioni's ''

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'' (1950).Seymour Benjamin Chatman. ''Antonioni, Or, the Surface of the World''. University of California Press, 1985. p.266.

Personal life

D'Anza was first married to Edith Malanesan, a British woman, and they had a daughter, Cristina. The couple separated (divorce not yet existing in Italy) in 1950 and in 1967 he was prosecuted for concubinage with the actress

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, with whom he had had a second daughter, Vittoria Michaela.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

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'' (1950) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1951) * ''

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'' (1952) * '' Tom Toms of Mayumba'' (1955) * '' The Wanderers'' (1956)

Director

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'' (1958, TV series) * '' Call Girls of Rome'' (1960) *'' Il segno del comando'' (1971, TV series) * ''Extra'' (1976) * ''

Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' ( ), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emp ...

'' (1978, TV series) *'' I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe'' (1979, TV series)

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