Giancarlo Zagni (4 November 1926 – 21 March 2013) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Born in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
, Zagni attended the Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...
, then collaborated with ''L'avvenire d'Italia'' and other newspapers and magazines.
From 1951 to 1954 he was assistant director of
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, stage director, and screenwriter. A major figure of Italian art and culture in the mid-20th century, Visconti was one of the fat ...
in several stage works and in the film ''
Senso'';
[ in the film set he knew the actress ]Alida Valli
Alida Maria Laura, ''Freiin'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, s ...
with whom he started a sixteen years long relationship. During this period he left Italy, first moving in New York, where he attended the Actors Studio
The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded ...
, and then in Mexico, where he directed some stage plays and became the founder and a professor of the School of Autonomous Cinema National at the University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
.La bellezza di Ippolita
''La bellezza di Ippolita'' is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Giancarlo Zagni, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Enrico Maria Salerno. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
Plot
Cast
* Gina Lollobrigida as Ippo ...
'', an adaption of the novel with the same name written by Elio Bartolini
Elio Bartolini (1922, Conegliano, Veneto, Italy, - April 30, 2006, Santa Marizza di Varmo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) was an Italian writer, screenwriter and poet. He was a co-author of screenplays of Michelangelo Antonioni's ''Il grido'' (19 ...
, with which he represented Italy at the 12th Berlin International Film Festival
The 12th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June – 3 July 1962. The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film '' A Kind of Loving'' directed by John Schlesinger.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on ...
. In 1966 he entered the Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
with the comedy film ''Blockhead'', which won the "Leone di San Marco Plate".[ With this film he made his retirement from filmmaking but not from cinema industry, with a new career as producer and distributor as a manager of the company Italnoleggio.]
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1926 births
2013 deaths
film people from Bologna
Italian film directors
Italian male screenwriters
Italian screenwriters
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