Salvatore Piscicelli (born 4 January 1948) is an Italian director, screenwriter and film critic.
Born in
Pomigliano d'Arco, after an activity as a film critic, Piscicelli started his film career with some documentary short films shot and set in his hometown.
His feature debut film, ''
Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy'', won several awards including the Silver Leopard at the
Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...
.
His 1981 film ''
Le occasioni di Rosa'' entered the
38th Venice International Film Festival
The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.
Jury
The following people comprised the 1981 jury:
* Italo Calvino (Italy) (head of jury)
* Marie-Christine Barrault (France)
* Peter Bogdanovich (USA)
* Lui ...
.
In 2001, using only digital supports, he shot ''Quartetto'', the first Italian film to follow the dictates of the avant-garde filmmaking movement "
Dogma
Dogma is a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted by the members of a group without being questioned or doubted. It may be in the form of an official system of principles or doctrines of a religion, such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Islam ...
".
His last film is the 2003 biographical drama ''Alla fine della notte''.
Filmography
* ''
Immacolata e Concetta, l'altra gelosia'' (1979)
* ''
Le occasioni di Rosa'' (1981)
* ''
Blues metropolitano
''Blues metropolitano'' is a 1985 Italian musical comedy-drama film directed by Salvatore Piscicelli.
Cast
*Marina Suma: Stella
* Ida Di Benedetto: Elena
*Barbara D'Urso: Francesca
*Stefano Sabelli: Tony Tarallo
*Tony Esposito: Tanino
*Paolo ...
'' (1985)
* ''
Regina'' (1987)
* ''
Baby gang'' (1992)
* ''
Il corpo dell'anima'' (1999)
* ''
Quartetto'' (2001)
* ''
Alla fine della notte'' (2003)
References
External links
*
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1948 births
People from the Province of Naples
Italian film directors
Living people
Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters