Ferdinando Maria Poggioli (15 December 1897 – 2 February 1945) was an Italian

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and

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. He directed fifteen films including the 1940 melodrama '' Goodbye Youth''.Gundle p.56 He had previously worked as

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on a number of films during the 1930s. He committed

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in 1945.

Selected filmography

Director

* ''

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'' (1936) * '' Wealth Without a Future'' (1939) * '' Goodbye Youth'' (1940) * ''

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'' (1942) * ''

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'' (1942) * ''

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'' (1942) * ''

The Materassi Sisters ''The Materassi Sisters'' (Italian: ''Sorelle Materassi'') is a 1944 Italian comedy film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Emma Gramatica, Irma Gramatica and Olga Solbelli.Reich & Garofalo p.268 The film is an adaptation of the ...

'' (1944) * '' The Priest's Hat'' (1944)

Editor

* ''

The Blue Fleet ''L'Armata Azzurra'' (English: ''The Blue Army'' or ''The Blue Fleet'' AKA ''The Winged Armada'' and ''Italy Speaks'') is a 1932 Italian aviation docu-drama and adventure film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Germana Paolieri and Ennio ...

'' (1932) * ''

The Joker King ''The Joker King'' (Italian: ''Il re Burlone'') is a 1935 Italian historical comedy film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Luisa Ferida, Armando Falconi and Luigi Cimara.Moliterno p.158 It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. Plot In N ...

'' (1935) * '' King of Diamonds'' (1936) * '' Tomb of the Angels'' (1937) * ''

Princess Tarakanova Princess Tarakanova (c. 1745 – ) was a pretender to the Russian throne. She styled herself, among other names, ''Knyazhna Yelizaveta Vladimirskaya'' (Princess Elizabeth of Vladimir, Russia, Vladimir), ''Fräulein Frank'', and ''Madame Tré ...

'' (1938) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * ''

Diamonds Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of electricity, and insol ...

'' (1939)

References

Bibliography

* Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghan Books, 2013. * Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1897 births 1945 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Italian film editors Italian film directors Film people from Bologna Suicides in Italy 1945 suicides 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-film-bio-stub