Ugo_Pirro

Ugo Pirro

Ugo Pirro

Italian screenwriter and novelist


Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.[1][2][3]

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Biography

Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani (Achtung! Banditi!, 1951, and Il gobbo, 1960).[citation needed]

His screenplays of the 1970s include films Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto and Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.[citation needed]

Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being Le soldatesse (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and Celluloide, adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996.[4]

Pirro died in Rome in 2008.[1]

Works

Films

Television

  • Nucleo zero (1984)
  • Mio figlio non sa leggere (1984)
  • Gioco di società (1989)
  • Piazza di Spagna (1993)
  • La famiglia Ricordi (1993)
  • Il prezzo del denaro (1995)

Novels

  • Le soldatesse (1956)
  • Mille tradimenti (1959)
  • Jovanka e le altre (1960)
  • Mio figlio non sa leggere (1981)
  • Il luogo dei delitti (1991)
  • Osteria dei pittori (1994)
  • Celluloide (1995)
  • Soltanto un nome sui titoli di testa (1998)
  • Figli di ferroviere (1999)
  • Per scrivere un film (2001)
  • Il cinema della nostra vita (2001)

References

  1. Biography Archived 2006-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at Rai.it (in Italian)
  2. Sandra Brennan (2015). "Celluloide". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20.



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