Pietro Germi
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Pietro Germi (14 September 1914, Genoa - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.
He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During his time in school, Germi supported himself by working as an extra, bit actor, assistant director, and, on occasion, writer. Germi made his directorial debut in 1945 with the film Il testimone. His early work, this film included, were very much in the Italian Neorealist style; many were social dramas that dealt with contemporary issues pertaining to people of Sicilian heritage.
Through the years, Germi shifted away from social drama towards satirical comedies, but retained his loved element of the Sicilian people. In the 1960s, Germi received worldwide success with the films Divorce, Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned, and Signore e Signori. The latter is better known in the English-speaking world as The Birds the Bees and the Italians. He was nominated for Academy Awards in both directing and writing for Divorce, Italian Style, and, subsequently, won in the writing category. He also won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Signore e signori.
Germi collaborated on the scripts for all the films he directed and appeared as an actor in a few of them. He died in Rome of hepatitis on 5 December 1974.
Fotos
Películas (38)
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006 · Self (archive footage)
My Friends
1975 · Story, Screenplay
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972 · Director, Story, Screenplay
A Pocketful of Chestnuts
1970 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Serafino
1968 · Director, Story, Screenplay
The Climax
1967 · Director, Story, Screenplay
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1966 · Director, Story, Screenplay, Producer
A Man Named John
1965 · Pontiff's Father
Seduced and Abandoned
1964 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Divorce Italian Style
1961 · Director, Story, Screenplay
The Lovemakers
1961 · Stefano
Blood Feud
1961 · Bolognesi
Lipstick
1960 · Commissario Fioresi
Five Branded Women
1960 · Partisan Commander
The Facts of Murder
1959 · Il Dott. Ingravallo, Director, Screenplay
Man of Straw
1958 · Andrea, Director, Screenplay, Story
The Railroad Man
1956 · Andrea Marcocci, Director, Screenplay
Mid-Century Loves
1954 · Director
Black 13
1953 · Writer
Jealousy
1953 · Director, Screenplay
The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo
1952 · Director, Story, Adaptation
Mademoiselle Gobete
1952 · Director
The City Defends Itself
1951 · Director, Co-Writer
The Path of Hope
1950 · Director, Story
Against the Law
1950 · Story
In the Name of the Law
1949 · Director, Screenplay
Escape to France
1948 · Tembien
Lost Youth
1948 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Anglo-Saxon writers and poets in Rome
1947 · Director
Monte Cassino
1946
The Testimony
1946 · Director, Story, Screenplay
I dieci comandamenti
1945 · Writer
Gli ultimi filibustieri
1943 · Writer
Il figlio del corsaro rosso
1943 · Writer
The Iron Crown
1941 · Cavaliere
L'amore canta
1941 · Writer
The Sinner
1940 · Assistant Director
Retroscena
1939 · Writer
