Cecilia Mangini (31 July 1927 – 21 January 2021) was an Italian film director, considered the first female documentary filmmaker in Italy.
In 1958, her first documentary was released, titled ''Ignoti alla Città'' (''Unknown to the City''). Written by
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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, the film focused on adolescents in Rome's suburbs after World War II.
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Mangini died on 21 January 2021 in Rome.
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Personal life
Born in 1927 in Mola di Bari
Cathedral.
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, Italy, Mangini moved with her family to Florence
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at age six, when her father's leather business failed. She then moved to Rome in 1952 and worked in a film club federation, where she met and eventually married Lino Del Fra, with whom she collaborated on several film projects.[
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Filmography
Director
* '' Ignoti alla città'' (1958)
* ''Maria e i giorni'' (1959)
* '' Firenze di Pratolini'' (1959)
* '' La canta delle marane'' (1960)
* '' Stendalì - Suonano ancora'', (1960)
* ''La passione del grano'', co-directed with Lino Del Fra (1960)
* '' Fata Morgana'', co-directed with Lino del Fra (1961)
* '' All'armi, siam fascisti!'', co-directed with Lino del Fra and Lino Micciché (1962)
* ''La statua di Stalin'', co-directed with Lino del Fra (1963)
* '' Divino amore'' (1963)
* ''Trieste del mio cuore'' (1964)
* ''Pugili a Brugherio'' (1965)
* '' Felice Natale'' (1965)
* ''Essere donne'' (1965)
* ''Brindisi '65'' (1966)[
* ''Due scatole dimenticate – un viaggio in Vietnam'', co-directed with Paolo Pisanelli (2020)]
Screenwriter
* ''Firenze di Pratolini'' (1959)
* '' Stendalì - Suonano ancora'' (1960)
* '' All'armi, siam fascisti!'', directed by Lino Del Fra, Cecilia Mangini and Lino Micciché (1962)
* '' La torta in cielo'', directed by Lino Del Fra (1970)
* ''Black Holiday
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Cast
* Adolfo Celi as Commissioner Rizzuto
* Adalberto Maria Merli as Franco Rossini
* John Steiner as Scagnett ...
'', directed by Marco Leto
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Born in Rome, Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films. In 1965 he started a colla ...
(1973)
* '' Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison'', directed by Lino Del Fra (1977)
* '' Klon'', directed by Lino Del Fra (1994)
* ''Regina Coeli
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'', directed by Nico D'Alessandria
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(2000)
* '' In viaggio con Cecilia'', directed by Mariangela Barbanente Mariangela is a given name. It may refer to:
* Mariangela Argentino (born 1984), Italian singer
* Mariangela Demurtas (born 1981), Italian singer in the gothic metal band Tristania
* Mariangela Melato (born 1941), Italian actress
* Mariangela Walli ...
and Cecilia Mangini (2013)
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1927 births
2021 deaths
Italian documentary film directors
Italian women film directors
Italian women screenwriters
Italian communists
20th-century Italian screenwriters
20th-century Italian women writers
21st-century Italian screenwriters
21st-century Italian women writers
People from the Province of Bari
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