Pier Francesco Pingitore (born 27 September 1934) is an Italian director, screenwriter, playwright and author.
Biography
Born in
Catanzaro, Pingitore started his career as a journalist,
[Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. .] then he was with Mario Castellacci, Luciano Cirri and Piero Palumbo the founder in 1965 of the "Bagaglino" Theatre (originally named "Bragaglino" as a tribute to
Anton Giulio Bragaglia) in Rome.
A year later, he published the song "
Avanti ragazzi di Buda
"Avanti ragazzi di Buda" (; hu, Előre budai srácok) is an Italian anti-communist song written by Pier Francesco Pingitore and composed by Dimitri Gribanovski. It commemorates the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and is a widespread and well-know ...
".
After a local success, from 1973 the stage company got a large success on television with the
RAI variety show ''Dove sta Zazà?'' and with its numerous successor shows.
[Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, 1996 – 2003. .] In 1968, Pingitore made his film debut directing a documentary about the
protests of the European youth, then, from 1975 to 1983 and again in 1992 he wrote and directed a series of satirical comedies starred by
Pippo Franco
Pippo Franco (pseudonym of Franco Pippo) was born 2 September 1940 and is an Italian actor, comedian, television presenter, and singer. He made his name first as a musician in the early 1960s, and in the late 1960s began a career in film, starrin ...
and by several components of the "Bagaglino" company, targeting various aspects of Italian society including political scandals, football, school, and the music industry.
In 2020, it was announced that Pingitore would be awarded the for writing "Avanti ragazzi di Buda".
References
External links
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Living people
1934 births
Italian film directors
Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Italian dramatists and playwrights
Italian male dramatists and playwrights
People from Calabria
People from Catanzaro