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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.
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed. Both a compelling character study and a ...
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The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta, released in the United States as Mafia) is a 1968 Italian–French crime drama film directed by Damiano Damiani, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia, adapted for the screen by Damiani and Ugo Pirro. It stars Franco Nero, Claudia Cardinale, and Lee J. Cobb.
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.
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Aug 1, 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 ...
Jan 18, 2008 · Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. His screenplays include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Fizi-Continis, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.
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 ...
