Luigi Freddi (12 June 1895,

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– 17 March 1977,

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) was an Italian journalist and politician, principally notable for being the first vice seсretary of the ''Fasci italiani all'estero'', and later one of those most responsible for Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and the start of the 1940s. As a

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and a ''legionario fiumano'' (see

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), he edited ''

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'' and in 1920 was one of the founders of the student avant-garde within the fighting Italian Fascist party and became director of the review ''Giovinezza''. He was then head press officer of the PNF (1923–24), ''vicesegretario'' (vice-secretary) of the ''Fasci italiani all'estero'' (FIE) (1927) and vice-director of the

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. In 1934 he was made head of the General Directorate of Cinematography, the Fascist organisation controlling cinema. Freddi aimed to create an entertainment cinema on the American type, imitating the commercial

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model instead of the

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model. The

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studios (of which he became a director) and the

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film school were founded under his direction.

References

* E. Piovano, ''il sogno di Freddi'', in ''Il nuovo spettatore'' a. VI, n.10, December 1985 {{DEFAULTSORT:Freddi 1895 births 1977 deaths Politicians from Milan Journalists from Milan Italian male journalists Italian film producers Italian fascists Futurist writers Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia 20th-century Italian journalists 20th-century Italian male writers