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Ugo Pirro, nome d'arte di Ugo Mattone(Salerno, 26 aprile1920– Roma, 18 gennaio2008), è stato uno sceneggiatoree scrittoreitaliano, candidato a due premi Oscarnel 1972per la sceneggiatura originaledi Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospettoe per la sceneggiatura non originalede Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini. Indice.
Jan 22, 2008 · Italian scribe Ugo Pirro dies, 87. ROME -- The Italian parliament on Monday observed a moment of silence in honor of screenwriter Ugo Pirro, who died early Saturday after a prolonged illness.
Mon, 01/21/2008 - 05:29. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ugo Pirro died Friday in his Rome home. He was 87. Pirro earned his Academy Award nominations for Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion in 1971 and Vittorio De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Contini's in 1972. Born in Salerno, Pirro began as an author but branched off into ...
Jan 17, 2024 · The contribution intends to recover the importance of the Italian crime film production of the 1950s for the future authorial developments of the genre, analyzing the “discordant concordances” of the character of the police detective above suspicion, a mask already present in Il bivio (The Crossroad, 1951) by Fernando Cerchio and subsequently developed by Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro in ...
Ugo Pirro. Screenwriter. 23 April 1920 to 18 January 2008. As the writer of back-to-back winners of the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Pirro’s contribution to The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) remain his best known work outside his native Italy. He also enjoyed enduring collaborations with ...
Jan 18, 2008 · Died. January 18, 2008. Genre. Fiction, Nonfiction. edit data. Ugo Pirro, pen-name of Ugo Mattone, was an Italian novelist and screenwriter, nominee for two Academy Awards in 1972 for the best original screenplay with Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto and the adapted screenplay for Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini.
The Camp Followers (Italian: Le soldatesse), is a 1965 Italian World War II film directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Anna Karina. [1] From a 1956 novel by Ugo Pirro, it tells the story of a young lieutenant in the Italian Army who in 1942 is ordered to take a lorryload of Greek prostitutes from starving Athens under Axis occupation to entertain the troops fighting partisans in Albania.
