Luciano Emmer (19 January 1918 – 16 September 2009) was an Italian

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. He was born in

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, but most of his childhood lived in Venice. He started as filmmaker at filming Giotto's frescoes in Padua in 1938. Screenwriter

Sergio Amidei Sergio Amidei (30 October 1904 – 14 April 1981) was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's Italian neorealism, neorealist movement. Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Ross ...

, found the finance for Emmer to make a feature about Romans spending a Sunday in August on the beach at Ostia. He won a

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in 1951 for '' Pictura: An Adventure in Art''. He has directed more documentaries than fiction pictures, most notably ''Domenica d'agosto'' and the romance-comedy-drama ''

Three Girls from Rome ''Three Girls from Rome'' (, released as ''Girls of the Spanish Steps'' in the UK) is a 1952 Italian classic comedy drama film directed by Luciano Emmer. Cast *Lucia Bosè as Marisa *Cosetta Greco as Elena *Liliana Bonfatti as Lucia *Renato Salv ...

''. Luciano Emmer started his career as a filmmaker working with

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. He founded the production company Dolomiti Film and directed several documentaries. In 1949, Emmer produced his first feature film Dimanche d'August (1950) with

Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (26 September 1924Come da lui stesso dichiarato a 1'10" dquesta intervista/ref> – 19 December 1996) was an Italian actor. He is generally regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20t ...

. Also with Mastroianni, the following year he made Paris is always Paris (1951). In the 1950s, Luciano Emmer made advertising films meanwhile he continued with his documentary work. He was labeled as an example of the Italian

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. In 1956, Emmer directed with

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To Each His Own Paradise. After The Girl in the Window (1961), a social drama with Marina Vlady and Lino Ventura, he turned to television. He made his return to the cinema with Enough! I make a movie. Luciano Emmer was the father of mathematician, writer and director Michele Emmer and of the director David Emmer.

Selected filmography

*1938 ''Racconto di un affresco'' ''(documentary)'' *1940 ''Il Paradiso terrestre'' ''(documentary)'' *1940 ''I disastri della guerra'' ''(documentary)'' *1949 ''

Sunday in August ''Sunday in August'' (Italian: ''Domenica d'agosto'') is a 1950 Italian comedy drama film directed by Luciano Emmer and starring Vera Carmi, Marcello Mastroianni, Emilio Cigoli and Massimo Serato. It earned just under 150 million lire at the ...

'' *1951 '' Paris Is Always Paris'' *1951 '' Pictura: An Adventure in Art'' (co-director) *1952 ''

'' ''Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna'' *1954 ''Incontrare Picasso'' ''(documentary)'' *1954 ''

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'' *1954 ''Gli eroi dell'Artide'' ''(documentary)'' *1954 '' Camilla'' *1955 '' Il bigamo'' *1957 ''Paradiso terrestre'' ''(documentary)'' *1957 '' Il momento più bello'' *1961 ''

Girl in the Window ''Girl in the Window'' (, ) is a 1961 Italian-French drama film written and directed by Luciano Emmer and starring Lino Ventura and Magali Noël. It is based on the novel by Giovanni Comisso. Plot A group of boys from Italy arrives in the Ne ...

'' *1972 ''Cesare Zavattini e il "Campo di grano con corvi" di Van Gogh'' ''(documentary)'' *1990 ''Basta! Ci faccio un film'' *2001 ''Una lunga, lunga, lunga notte d'amore'' *2003 ''L'acqua... il fuoco'' Vanni e Picasso

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* 1918 births 2009 deaths Italian film directors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Film people from Milan Italian male screenwriters 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-film-director-stub