Mauro Bolognini

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Mauro Bolognini (June 28, 1922 - May 14, 2002) was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.

[edit] Biography

Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany.

A former architectural student, he started out as an assistant director to Luigi Zampa in Italy, and Yves Allegret and Jean Delannoy in France. He began directing features in the mid 1950s, and had his first international success with Gli innamorati ("Wild Love").

His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include Giovani mariti ("Young Husbands"), La notte brava', La giornata balorda (From a Roman Balcony), and the Marcello Mastroianni-Claudia Cardinale starrer Il Bell'Antonio (arguably his masterpiece), all written by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Parting with Pasolini in 1961, Bolognini went on to direct the well-crafted La Viaccia and Senilità (both with Claudia Cardinale), before turning his talents to such popular 1960s anthology films as Le Bambole (The Dolls), I tre volti, and Le streghe (The Witches).

Returning to features in the late 1960s with Mademoiselle De Maupin, Bolognini's later films include the accomplished period pieces Metello', Fatti di gente per bene (La Grande Bourgeoise) with Catherine Deneuve, L'eredità Ferramonti (The Inheritance), and La Dame aux camélias starring a young Isabelle Huppert.

In his later years, Bolognini continued directing feature films, as well as operas, and the television miniseries The Charterhouse of Parma and The Time Of Indifference. His final feature, the erotic drama Husbands and Lovers, was released in 1992.

He died in Rome in 2001.

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Ci troviamo in galleria (1953)
I cavalieri della regina (Knights of the Queen, 1954)
La vena d'oro (1955)
Gli innamorati (Wild Love 1955)
I tre moschettieri (The Three Musketeers, 1956, TV Series)
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956)
I tre moschettieri (The Three Musketeers, 1956, TV Series)
Marisa la civetta (Marisa, 1957)
Giovani mariti (Young Husbands, 1958)
Arrangiatevi! (You're On Your Own , 1959)
La notte brava (Bad Girls Don't Cry, 1959)
La giornata balorda (From a Roman Balcony, 1960)
Il bell'Antonio (Bell'Antonio, 1960)
La viaccia (The Lovemakers, 1961)
Agostino (1962)
Senilità (Careless, 1962)
La corruzione (Corruption, 1963)
La mia signora (My Wife, 1964, segments "I miei cari" and "Luciana")
La donna è una cosa meravigliosa (Woman Is a Wonderful Thing, 1964, segments "Una donna dolce, dolce" and "La balena bianca")
Le bambole (Four Kinds of Love/The Dolls, 1965, segment "Monsignor Cupido")
I tre volti (The Three Faces of a Woman, 1965, segment "Gli amanti celebri")
Madamigella di Maupin (1966)
Le fate (The Queens/Sex Quartet, 1966, segment "Fata Elena")
Le streghe (The Witches, 1967, segment "Senso civico")
Le plus vieux métier du monde (1967, segment "Nuits romaines")
Arabella (1967)
Capriccio all'italiana (Caprice Italian Style, 1968, segments "Perché?" and "La gelosia")
L'assoluto naturale (She and He, 1969)
Un bellissimo novembre (That Splendid November, 1969)
Metello (1970)
Bubu (1971)
Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente (1972)
Libera, amore mio... (Libera, My Love..., 1973)
Fatti di gente per bene (Drama of the Rich, 1974)
Per le antiche scale (Down the Ancient Staircase, 1975)
L'eredità Ferramonti (The Inheritance, 1976)
Gran bollito (Black Journal, 1977)
Dove vai in vacanza? (Where Are You Going on Holiday? ,1978, segment "Sarò tutta per te")
La dama delle camelie, (La Dame aux camélias, 1980)
La certosa di Parma (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1981, TV Series)
La Venexiana (The Venetian Woman, 1986)
Mosca addio (Farewell Moscow, 1987)
Imago urbis (1987)
Gli indifferenti (1988, TV mini series)
12 registi per 12 città (1989) (segment "Palermo")
La villa del venerdì (Husband and Lovers, 1992)
La famiglia Ricordi (1993, TV mini-series)