Giuseppe Fatigati (20 September 1906 – 9 September 1975) was an Italian film editor, producer and director.
Life and career
Born in
Terracina
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,
Latina
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*Latin Americans
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, Fatigati started his career as a film editor in the early 1930s, and with this role he often collaborated to films directed by
Mario Camerini
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The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
,
Gennaro Righelli
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and
Guido Brignone
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Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...
. Besides serving as assistant director in several films he edited, Fatigati also had a limited activity as a film director, being better known for the musical comedy ''Voglio bene soltanto a te'', starring
Beniamino Gigli
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Early life
Gigli was born in Recanati, in the Marche, the son of a shoem ...
. Starting from the second half of the 1940s he focused into producing, and he financed some films directed by
Luigi Comencini
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,
Riccardo Freda
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Freda began directing ''I Vampiri'' in 1956. The f ...
,
Goffredo Alessandrini
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and
Guido Brignone
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Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...
, among others. His last works were the productions of two films directed by
Mario Imperoli
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and starring
Gloria Guida
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Blue Jeans
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''.
Selected filmography
* ''
Figaro and His Great Day
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'' (1931)
* ''
The Devil's Lantern
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Marcella
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'' (1937)
* ''
They've Kidnapped a Man
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It was shot at the ...
The Castle Ball
''The Castle Ball'' or ''Ball at the Castle'' (Italian: ''Ballo al castello'') is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" romantic comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Antonio Centa and Carlo Lombardi.Nowell-Smith p.119
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'' (1939)
* ''
Kean
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* Kean (play), ''Kean'' (play), 1838 play by Alexandre Dumas père based on the life of the actor Edmund Kean, and its adaptations:
** Kean (1921 film), ''Kean'' (1921 film), a German silent historical film
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'' (1940)
* ''
Buried Alive
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