Directing

Antonio Pietrangeli

Born January 19, 1919 · Rome - Italy

Died July 12, 1968 · aged 49

Antonio Pietrangeli (born 19 January 1919 in Rome, died 12 July 1968 in Gaeta) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Pietrangeli was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He started writing film reviews for famous Italian cinema magazines such as Bianco e nero and Cinema. As a screenwriter, Pietrangeli's work included Ossessione directed byVisconti, Fabiola by Blasetti,…

Known For

Obsession

Obsession · 1943

MovieCrimeDrama

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

The Bachelor

The Bachelor · 1955

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

Where Is Freedom?

Where Is Freedom? · 1954

Where Is Freedom?

MovieComedyDrama

A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.

How, When, and with Whom

How, When, and with Whom · 1969

How, When, and with Whom

Paola, wife of a wealthy Turinese industrialist, meets Alberto, a friend of her husband, who emigrated to Argentina and has returned for business reasons. After a few days, Alberto confesses his love to Paola, but she resists. However, during a vacation in Sardinia, having waited in vain for the arrival of her husband, she gives in to Alberto's wishes.

La Terra Trema

La Terra Trema · 1949

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Journey to Italy

Journey to Italy · 1954

Journey to Italy

MovieDramaRomance

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

I Knew Her Well

I Knew Her Well · 1965

I Knew Her Well

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

Mid-Century Loves

Mid-Century Loves · 1954

Mid-Century Loves

MovieDramaRomance

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

Filmography

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Obsession

Obsession · 1943

MovieCrimeDrama

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Screenplay

The Bachelor

The Bachelor · 1955

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

Director

Where Is Freedom?

Where Is Freedom? · 1954

Where Is Freedom?

MovieComedyDrama

A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.

Screenplay

How, When, and with Whom

How, When, and with Whom · 1969

How, When, and with Whom

Paola, wife of a wealthy Turinese industrialist, meets Alberto, a friend of her husband, who emigrated to Argentina and has returned for business reasons. After a few days, Alberto confesses his love to Paola, but she resists. However, during a vacation in Sardinia, having waited in vain for the arrival of her husband, she gives in to Alberto's wishes.

Director

La Terra Trema

La Terra Trema · 1949

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Screenplay

Journey to Italy

Journey to Italy · 1954

Journey to Italy

MovieDramaRomance

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

Additional Writing

I Knew Her Well

I Knew Her Well · 1965

I Knew Her Well

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

Director

Mid-Century Loves

Mid-Century Loves · 1954

Mid-Century Loves

MovieDramaRomance

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

Director

Adua and Her Friends

Adua and Her Friends · 1960

Adua and Her Friends

MovieDramaComedy

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

Director

It Happened in Rome

It Happened in Rome · 1957

It Happened in Rome

MovieRomanceComedy

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.

Director

Quel fantasma di mio marito

Quel fantasma di mio marito · 1950

Quel fantasma di mio marito

Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.

Co-Writer

Europa '51

Europa '51 · 1952

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.

Second Assistant Director

The Island Princess

The Island Princess · 1954

The Island Princess

MovieAdventureRomance

1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.

Screenplay

The Magnificent Cuckold

The Magnificent Cuckold · 1964

The Magnificent Cuckold

MovieComedyRomance

Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.

Director

The Queens

The Queens · 1966

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.

Director

Empty Eyes

Empty Eyes · 1953

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

Director

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii · 1950

The Last Days of Pompeii

MovieHistoryDrama

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...

Screenplay

March's Child

March's Child · 1958

Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner.

Story

Lost Youth

Lost Youth · 1948

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to find out more. He falls for a pretty fellow student, Luisa, but she is the sister of the gang leader...

Screenplay

La sposa non può attendere

La sposa non può attendere · 1949

La sposa non può attendere

On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her.

Story

Ghosts of Rome

Ghosts of Rome · 1961

MovieFantasyComedy

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

Director

Last Meeting

Last Meeting · 1951

MovieDramaRomance

The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.

Screenplay

The Visitor

The Visitor · 1963

MovieDramaComedy

Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.

Director

Rivalità

Rivalità · 1953

MovieDramaRomance

A melodrama supervised by Roberto Rossellini.

Screenplay