Mauro Bolognini

Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 - 14 May 2001) was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.

Biography

Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany.

A former architectural student, Bolognini began his film career as an assistant to director Luigi Zampa in Italy, and directors Yves Allegret and Jean Delannoy in France. He began directing his own feature films in the mid 1950s, and had his first international success with Gli innamorati ("Wild Love").

His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include Giovani mariti ("Young Husbands"), La notte brava, La giornata balorda ("From a Roman Balcony"), and the Marcello Mastroianni-Claudia Cardinale starrer Il bell'Antonio (arguably his masterpiece), all written by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Parting professionally with Pasolini in 1961, Bolognini went on to direct two sensual love stories starring Cardinale, La Viaccia and Senilità, before turning his talents to a series of international anthology films, including Le bambole (The Dolls), I tre volti ("Three Faces of a Woman"), Le fate ("The Queens") and Le streghe (The Witches).

Returning to features in the late 1960s with Mademoiselle De Maupin, his later works included the accomplished period dramas Metello and Bubu (both featuring Massimo Ranieri), Fatti di gente per bene (La Grande Bourgeoise) starring Giancarlo Giannini, Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey, L'eredità Ferramonti (The Inheritance) with Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda, and La Dame aux camélias featuring a young Isabelle Huppert.

In his later years, Bolognini continued directing feature films, as well as opera and the television miniseries The Charterhouse of Parma and The Time Of Indifference. His final movie feature was the soft-core erotic drama Husbands and Lovers, released in 1992. In 1994 he directed the show that the top female Greek singer Haris Alexiou appeared in the world famous Odeon of Herodes Atticus.

He died in Rome in 2001.

Filmography

• Ci troviamo in galleria (1953)
• I cavalieri della regina (Knights of the Queen, 1954)
• La vena d'oro (1955)
• Gli innamorati (Wild Love 1955)
• I tre moschettieri (The Three Musketeers, 1956, TV Series)
• Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956)
• I tre moschettieri (The Three Musketeers, 1956, TV Series)
• Marisa la civetta (Marisa, 1957)
• Giovani mariti (Young Husbands, 1958)
• Arrangiatevi! (You're On Your Own , 1959)
• La notte brava (Bad Girls Don't Cry, 1959)
• La giornata balorda (From a Roman Balcony, 1960) (based on Racconti Romani of Alberto Moravia)
• Il bell'Antonio (Bell'Antonio, 1960)
• La viaccia (The Lovemakers, 1961)
• Agostino (1962)
• Senilità (Careless, 1962)
• La corruzione (Corruption, 1963)
• La mia signora (My Wife, 1964, segments "I miei cari" and "Luciana")
• La donna è una cosa meravigliosa (Woman Is a Wonderful Thing, 1964, segments "Una donna dolce, dolce" and "La balena bianca")
• Le bambole (Four Kinds of Love/The Dolls, 1965, segment "Monsignor Cupido")
• I tre volti (The Three Faces of a Woman, 1965, segment "Gli amanti celebri")
• Madamigella di Maupin (1966)
• Le fate (The Queens/Sex Quartet, 1966, segment "Fata Elena")
• Le streghe (The Witches, 1967, segment "Senso civico")
• Le plus vieux métier du monde (1967, segment "Nuits romaines")
• Arabella (1967)
• Capriccio all'italiana (Caprice Italian Style, 1968, segments "Perché?" and "La gelosia")
• L'assoluto naturale (She and He, 1969)
• Un bellissimo novembre (That Splendid November, 1969)
• Metello (1970)
• Bubu (1971)
• Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente (1972)
• Libera, amore mio... (Libera, My Love..., 1973)
• Fatti di gente per bene (Drama of the Rich, 1974)
• Per le antiche scale (Down the Ancient Staircase, 1975)
• L'eredità Ferramonti (The Inheritance, 1976)
• Gran bollito (Black Journal, 1977)
• Dove vai in vacanza? (Where Are You Going on Holiday? ,1978, segment "Sarò tutta per te")
• La dama delle camelie, (La Dame aux camélias, 1980)
• La certosa di Parma (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1981, TV Series)
• La Venexiana (The Venetian Woman, 1986)
• Mosca addio (Farewell Moscow, 1987)
• Imago urbis (1987)
• Gli indifferenti (1988, TV mini series)
• 12 registi per 12 città (1989) (segment "Palermo")
• La villa del venerdì (Husband and Lovers, 1992)
• La famiglia Ricordi (1993, TV mini-series)

External links

• Mauro Bolognini at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Bolognini, Mauro
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Date of birth	28 June 1922
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Date of death	14 May 2001
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