Mario Soldati
Birthday: 1906-11-17
Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for Lettere da Capri. He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
Movies
Il Cinegiornale della pace
The Peace Newsreel is the prototype of those independent and collective film initiatives on topics o...
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A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of It...
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12 Directors for 12 Cities
Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Itali...
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Professor, My Son
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashame...
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Malombra
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, c...
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Il Pranzo di Natale a casa di Cesare Zavattini
Mario Soldati accompanies us once again, after the journey in the Po valley, in search of genuine fo...
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Escape to France
A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid be...
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Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati accompanies us in search of genuine food, this time to discover the culinary tradition...
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Side Street Story
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary p...
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