Massimo Pirri (10 November 1945 – 20 June 2001) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in

Campagnano di Roma Campagnano di Roma is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about northwest of Rome. It was first mentioned in 1076, having been carved out of the great estate assembled on the Roman p ...

, Pirri entered the cinema industry as an actor, playing very minor roles while he was completing his engineering degree, and then he worked as an assistant director of

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and

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. In 1972 he made his directorial debut with the documentary film ''La mattanza'', which was followed by several other documentaries. In 1975 he directed the first of his five feature films, '' Calamo'', the provocative story of a rebellious seminarist who is discovering sex. In 1977 he directed his most known film, '' Italia: Ultimo atto?'', one of the first with the links of Italian terrorists and the police apparatus, and one year later he directed the controversial '' L'immoralità'', the unusual story of a young girl in love with a serial killer. His last project, the short documentary ''Il mestiere dello sceneggiatore'', was made in collaboration with the screenwriter

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and was screened at the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

. In his last years he worked on religious-themed stories.

Filmography

* '' Calamo'' (1976) * '' Italia: ultimo atto?'' (1977) * '' L'immoralità'' (1978) aka ''Cock Crows at Eleven'' * '' Eroina'' (1980) * '' Meglio baciare un cobra'' (1986)

References

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* 1945 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Writers from Rome Film directors from Rome 20th-century Italian male writers {{italy-film-bio-stub