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Mario Soldati

 
Director: Mario Soldati
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  • Born: Nov 17, 1906 in Turin, Italy
  • Died: Jun 19, 1999 in Rome, Italy
  • Occupation: Director, Writer, Actor
  • Active: '30s-'50s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Policarpo, La Donna del Fiume, Malombra
  • First Major Screen Credit: Acciaio (1933)

Biography

Mario Soldati is perhaps best known as a novelist and non-fiction writer, but he is also a noted director. Following graduation from the University of Turin, he moved to the United States in the late '20s to continue his studies. Eventually he got a teaching position at Columbia University in New York. After an unsuccessful bid for American citizenship, Soldati returned to Italy in 1931 to join the production company Cines. He wasn't there long before he began working as a lead scriptwriter and an assistant director. As a scenarist, he provided screenplays for such noted directors as Blasetti, Walther Ruttmann, and Augusto Genina. He was also closely associated with Mario Camerini as both a scriptwriter and assistant director. In 1939, Soldati made his feature-film directorial debut with the comedy Dora Nelson. From then through the 1950s, Soldati became known for competently directing commercially oriented adventures and comedies. Eschewing the notion of cinema as high art, Soldati did not hide his motives for making movies -- they paid better than writing books. Still, some of his early films remain highly regarded, especially his literary adaptations of 19th century author Antonio Foazzaro's novels Piccolo mondo antico (Old Fashioned World) (1941) and Malombra (1942). In 1956, Soldati worked as a second-unit director on the American-Italian epic War and Peace. In 1959, he played the same role for Ben-Hur. After that, he focused more on writing novels and the occasional screenplay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Mario Soldati
Born 11 November 1906
Turin, Italy
Died 19 June 1999
Lerici

Mario Soldati (11 November 1906 - 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer, film director.

Biography

Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at Columbia University. He won literary awards for the work.

He began directing in 1938 and his most famous films are Piccolo mondo antico (1941) and Malombra with Isa Miranda, both based on novels by Antonio Fogazzaro; these two films belong to the early 1940s movement in Italian cinema known as calligrafismo

Other popular films were Eugenie Grandet, based on Balzac's novel, with Alida Valli; Fuga in Francia (1948); The River Girl (starring Sophia Loren) and La provinciale (starring Gina Lollobrigida).

Soldati also wrote for Italian newspapers including Il Mondo,Il Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Giorno.

He died at Lerici in 1999.

Filmography

  • 1938 The Woman of Monte Carlo (La signora di Montecarlo)
  • 1938 Betrayal (La principessa Tarakanova)
  • 1939 Due milioni per un sorriso
  • 1940 Dora Nelson
  • 1940 Tutto per la donna
  • 1941 Piccolo mondo antico
  • 1942 Tragic Night (Tragica notte)
  • 1942 Malombra
  • 1945 In High Places (Quartieri alti)
  • 1945 His Young Wife (Le miserie del Signor Travet)
  • 1947 Elena (Daniele Cortis)
  • 1947 Eugenie Grandet (Eugenia Grandet)
  • 1948 Flight Into France (Fuga in Francia)
  • 1948 Chi è Dio
  • 1950 I'm in the Revue (Botta e risposta)
  • 1950 The Taming of Dorothy (Quel bandito sono io)
  • 1950 The King's Guerrillas (Donne e briganti)
  • 1951 O.K. Nero (O.K. Nerone)
  • 1951 È l'amor che mi rovina
  • 1952 Three Corsairs (I tre corsari)
  • 1952 Yolanda (Jolanda, la figlia del corsaro nero)
  • 1952 The Adventures of Manderin (Le avventure di Mandrin)
  • 1952 Il sogno di Zorro
  • 1953 The Wayward Wife (La provinciale)
  • 1954 Of Life and Love (Questa è la vita)
  • 1954 The Stranger's Hand
  • 1955 The River Girl (La donna del fiume)
  • 1956 The Virtuous Bigamist (Sous le ciel de Provence)
  • 1957 Italia piccola
  • 1959 Policarpo (Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura)

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