Salvatore Nocita (born 30 July 1934) is an Italian television and film director, editor and screenwriter. Born in

Arcisate Arcisate is a town and ''comune'' located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. The celebrated Arcisate Treasure of Roman silverware was found in the town in the nineteenth century. It is now in the British Museum. ...

Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label= Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretium; archaic german: Väris) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559. It is the c ...

, in 1958 Nocita became an employee of

RAI RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...

as an editor, and in 1968 he debuted as director of the journalistic program ''Faccia a faccia''.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . Shorty later he started directing critical acclaimed television films and TV-series, such as ''

I Nicotera ''I Nicotera'' is a 1972 Italian drama television miniseries directed by Salvatore Nocita and starring Turi Ferro. A story of ordinary discomfort of a Sicilian family immigrated to North Italy, the miniseries got large critical acclaim.Aldo Gras ...

'', ''

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'', '' Storia di Anna'' and '' The Betrothed''.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . His 1976 television miniseries '' Ligabue'' was later released in cinemas in a reduced version and got him a

Nastro d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ...

for best new director.

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* 1934 births 20th-century Italian people Italian film directors Italian television directors Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters People from the Province of Varese Living people Nastro d'Argento winners {{Italy-bio-stub