Fabio Carpi (19 January 1925 – 26 December 2018) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and author.
Life and career
Born in
Milan
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in the 1940s, Carpi began his career as a film critic for the newspapers ''Libera Stampa'' and ''
L'Unità
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''. He moved to Brazil in 1951 where he started collaborating on some screenplays. He returned to Italy in 1954, and until 1971, he was active as a screenwriter for notable directors such as
Antonio Pietrangeli
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,
Dino Risi
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, and
Vittorio De Seta
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Nastro d'Argento
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for the screenplay of Nelo Risi's '' Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl'' in 1971. From 1957 he was also a critically acclaimed novelist and essayist. His novel, ''Patchwork,'' won the
Bagutta Prize
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in 1998.
After a 1968 documentary short, in 1972 Carpi made his feature film debut with the drama ''Corpo d'amore''. His films were referred to as "figuratively accurate, literary, often metaphorical and difficult to understand", and "deep explorations of the human psyche".