Alberto Lattuada
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Italian writer/director Alberto Lattuada is the son of famed composer Felice Lattuada, who scored several of Lattuada's films. After studying to be an architect at the Berchet School in Milan, Lattuada supplemented his income as a newspaper and magazine writer. He entered the Italian film industry in 1933 as a set decorator, graduating to "assistant in charge of color" in 1935. Five years later, he directed his first film. With Luigi Comencini, Lattuada founded Italy's first film archive, Cinetica Italiana, in 1941; that same year he published a popular coffee-table volume, The Photographic Atlas. Stepping up his directing activities in the postwar years, Lattuada specialized in stylish costume pictures, often adapted from famous novels. His ventures into neorealism--Bandit (1946), Anna (1951)--tended to be slicker and more professional-looking than the similar efforts of his contemporaries. He gave the career of Federico Fellini a boost in 1950, when he and Fellini co-directed the well-received Variety Lights (the film's budget was provided up by a corporation formed by Lattuada, Fellini and their actress wives). The best of Lattuada's subsequent films include The Overcoat (1953) and Fraulein Doktor (1967). He did a great deal of TV work in the 1970s and 1980s, notably the 1985 U.S.-Italian miniseries Christopher Columbus. From 1970 onward, Lattuada kept busy outside the movie industry as an opera director. Alberto Lattuada was once married to actress Carla Del Poggio. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviRelated Videos:
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Alberto Lattuada
| Alberto Lattuada | |
|---|---|
| Born |
13 November 1914 |
| Died | 3 July 2005 (aged 90) Rome, Italy |
| Spouse | Carla Del Poggio (1945–2005) |
Alberto Lattuada (13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director.
Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a member of the editorial staff of the antifascist fortnightly "Camminare..." (1932) and part of the artists' group Corrente di Vita (1938).
According to an interview of his son (coming with the DVD of Mafioso), Lattuada's father made him complete his studies as an architect even though he recognized his desire to make movies.
In 1940 he started his cinema career as a screenwriter and assistant director on Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico ("Old-Fashioned World"). In 1943 he directed his first movie, Giacomo l'idealista.
Luci del Varietà (1950), co-directed with Federico Fellini, was the latter's first directorial endeavour. His 1962 film La steppa was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] In 1970, he was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
In 1979, New Line Cinema released his erotic film Stay As You Are theatrically in the United States.
He died at 90 years old of Alzheimer's disease and is survived by his wife of 61 years, actress Carla Del Poggio. He was buried in his family's chapel in the cemetery of Morimondo.
Filmography (as director)
- Giacomo l'idealista (1942)
- La freccia nel fianco (1943) finished by Mario Costa in 1944
- La nostra guerra (1945) documentary
- Il bandito (1946)
- Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo (1947)
- Senza pietà (1948)
- Il mulino del Po (1949)
- Luci del Varietà (1950) co-directed with Federico Fellini
- Anna (1951)
- Il Cappotto (1952)
- La lupa (1953)
- L'amore in città, episode Gli italiani si voltano (1953)
- La spiaggia (1954)
- Scuola elementare (1955)
- Guendalina (1957)
- La tempesta (1958)
- I dolci inganni (1960)
- Lettere di una novizia (1960)
- L'imprevisto (1961)
- Mafioso (1962)
- La steppa (1962)
- The Mandrake (1965)
- Matchless (1966)
- Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1967)
- Fraulein Doktor (1968)
- L'amica (1969)
- Venga a prendere il caffè... da noi (1970)
- Bianco, rosso e... (1972)
- Sono stato io (1973)
- Le farò da padre (1974)
- Cuore di cane (1976)
- Oh! Serafina (1976)
- Così come sei (aka Stay As You Are) (1978)
- La cicala (1980)
- Nudo di donna (1981) replaced by Nino Manfredi
- Una spina nel cuore (1986)
References
- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for La steppa". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057529/awards. Retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ^ "Berlinale 1970: Juries". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1970/04_jury_1970/04_Jury_1970.html. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
External links
- Alberto Lattuada at the Internet Movie Database
- "Alberto Lattuada". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11283878. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
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