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Andrea Crisanti is a Scriptwriter and Production Design Italien born on 2 june 1936 at Rome (Italie)

Andrea Crisanti

Andrea Crisanti
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Nationality Italie
Birth 2 june 1936 at Rome (Italie)
Death 7 may 2012 (at 75 years)

Andrea Crisanti (Rome, 12 juin 1936 - 7 mai 2012) est un scénographe et un costumier italien.

Biography

Andrea Crisanti, qui a étudié l'Art à l'Académie des Beaux-arts de la Rome, a commencé sa carrière au cinéma avec Mario Monicelli comme l'assistant décorateur de Mario Garbuglia sur le film La Grande Guerre (1959). Après avoir travaillé avec de nombreux décorateurs, il participe au film Maciste en enfer (1962) de Riccardo Freda, puis travaille de nouveau au cinéma et aussi au théâtre.

Sa carrière prend un nouveau départ en 1970 avec Francesco Rosi. Il réalise les scènes de Cinema Paradiso (1988) et Une pure formalité (1994) pour Giuseppe Tornatore, qui reçoit le Prix David di Donatello.

Andrea Crisanti a travaillé pour Franco Zeffirelli (Le Jeune Toscanini, 1988) et Gianni Amelio (Les Enfants volés, 1992), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Identification d'une femme, 1982) et Andrej Tarkovskij (Nostalghia, 1983).

Crisanti a enseigné l'art au Centre de Cinématographie Expérimentale de Rome depuis 1995 et a été président de l'A.S.C. (Association des Créateurs de Costumes).

Best films

Cinema Paradiso (1988)
(Production Design)
The Four Days of Naples (1962)
(Assistant Production Design)
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
(Production Design)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
(Art Direction)

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Filmography of Andrea Crisanti (40 films)

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Scriptwriter

Art

A Magnificent Haunting, 1h45
Directed by Ferzan Özpetek
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film
Actors Elio Germano, Margherita Buy, Vittoria Puccini, Loredana Cannata, Giuseppe Fiorello, Cem Yılmaz
Roles Production Design
Rating65% 3.296773.296773.296773.296773.29677
Pietro Pontechievello is a gay man who rents a large house in the historic center of Rome. In the abode Pietro quickly learns of strange and mysterious presences. The house is haunted by the ghosts of members of a theater company dating back to the times of fascism, and now they do not know that are dead. Indeed, the ghosts believe they are on leave to participate in a new show, and Pietro does not know how to drive the intruders from the building.
Loose Cannons, 1h50
Directed by Ferzan Özpetek
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Coming out, LGBT-related film
Actors Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Ilaria Occhini, Andrea Rivera, Lunetta Savino, Ennio Fantastichini
Roles Production Design
Rating72% 3.6018353.6018353.6018353.6018353.601835
The Cantones are a bourgeois family who own a pasta factory in Lecce in conservative Southern Italy. One of the two sons, Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio), returns from his studies in Rome and hopes to make the most of a family reunion to reveal his homosexuality. Tommaso discusses his plans with his elder brother, Antonio (Alessandro Preziosi), and also tells him about his desire to break away from the family business to become a writer in Rome. During a dinner with the Brunetti family, with whom the Cantones are in business, just as Tommaso is about to share his news, Antonio interrupts and reveals to everyone that he himself is homosexual. Mr Cantone (Ennio Fantastichini), the brothers' father, takes the news badly and is admitted to hospital.
Blood of the Losers, 1h50
Directed by Michele Soavi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Michele Placido, Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Rivera, Giovanna Ralli, Philippe Leroy, Stefano Dionisi
Roles Production Design
Rating56% 2.830592.830592.830592.830592.83059
Le film se déroule pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Le commissaire Francesco Dogliani doit mener une enquête sur l'homicide d'une femme et les mystères de sa sœur jumelle. En même temps, il doit assumer les difficultés et les contradictions de la Guerre dans une situation pleine de contrastes, puisqu'un de ses frères est un résistant et un autre est engagé dans l'armée de la République sociale italienne.
The Goodbye Kiss, 1h47
Directed by Michele Soavi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari, Carlo Cecchi, Antonello Fassari, Zoe Aggeliki
Roles Production Design
Rating68% 3.4433453.4433453.4433453.4433453.443345
Un terroriste italien repenti qui a trahi ses amis pour échapper à une lourde condamnation tente vainement de retrouver une vie normale à sa sortie de prison.
The Emperor's New Clothes, 1h47
Directed by Alan Taylor
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Nigel Terry, Hugh Bonneville, Trevor Cooper
Roles Production Design
Rating68% 3.4462653.4462653.4462653.4462653.446265
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte (Holm), after six years in exile on the isle of St. Helena, has a plan to escape. Switching places with lowly French deckhand Eugene Lenormand (Holm again), Napoleon will make his way to Paris, at which time Eugene will announce the switch, allowing Napoleon to reclaim his throne.
Viper
Viper (2000)

Directed by Sergio Citti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Harvey Keitel, Giancarlo Giannini, Olimpia Carlisi
Roles Production Design
Rating54% 2.726262.726262.726262.726262.72626
Excellent Cadavers
Directed by Ricky Tognazzi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Chazz Palminteri, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Galiena, Lina Sastri, Arnoldo Foà, Ivo Garrani
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.24563.24563.24563.24563.2456
1992. Le célèbre juge anti-Mafia Giovanni Falcone et son épouse meurent dans un attentat à la bombe alors qu'ils traversent Palerme en voiture. Retour en 1980. Intègre, idéaliste et résolu, Falcone commence sa carrière de magistrat au palais de justice de Palerme. Sa spécialité : les arnaques bancaires...
The Truce
The Truce (1997)
, 2h5
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors John Turturro, Rade Šerbedžija, Massimo Ghini, Stefano Dionisi, Roberto Citran, Claudio Bisio
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.2429453.2429453.2429453.2429453.242945
Although liberated on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
Moon Shadow, 1h26
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Tchéky Karyo, Nino Manfredi, Johan Leysen, Isabelle Pasco, Paolo Sassanelli
Roles Production Design
Rating69% 3.4964053.4964053.4964053.4964053.496405
Lorenzo, an astrophysicist, has inherited a house in Sicily. He has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts the job with help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them. He finds out Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first Lorenzo is angry but then his good heart prevails.
A Pure Formality, 1h48
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Tano Cimarosa, Massimo Vanni
Roles Production Design
Rating75% 3.797243.797243.797243.797243.79724
Onoff (Depardieu) is a famous writer who is now a recluse. The Inspector (Polanski) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. As the head of an isolated, rural police station the Inspector tries to establish events through careful interrogation and deduction. By painstaking inquiry, he clears up a mysterious killing and brings the writer a new and strange realisation.
Everybody's Fine, 1h58
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Roberto Nobile, Salvatore Cascio, Jacques Perrin
Roles Art Direction
Rating76% 3.840173.840173.840173.840173.84017
Matteo Scuro, a retired Sicilian bureaucrat and opera buff, has been stood up by his five adult children during the summer vacation, all of whom live in various cities on the Italian mainland with what he believes are responsible jobs. Despite their not visiting and the neighbours' criticisms, he remains optimistic, considering that his children could not come because they are too busy. His children are named after popular opera characters, Tosca for Puccini's Tosca, Canio for Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Norma for Bellini's Norma, Guglielmo for Rossini's Guglielmo Tell and Alvaro for Verdi's La forza del destino.
The Palermo Connection, 1h40
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors James Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Noiret, Marco Leonardi
Roles Set Decoration
Rating56% 2.812852.812852.812852.812852.81285
Carmine Bonavia is elected mayor of New York City on the issue of drug legalization. After the election, he marries and travels to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon where he encounters men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
Cinema Paradiso, 1h58
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about films, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Brigitte Fossey, Antonella Attili
Roles Production Design
Rating84% 4.249584.249584.249584.249584.24958
In Rome, in the 1980s, famous Italian film director Salvatore Di Vita returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore obviously shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in 30 years. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1h47
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about families
Actors Ornella Muti, Rupert Everett, Anthony Delon, Gian Maria Volonté, Irène Papas, Lucia Bosè
Roles Set Decoration
Rating66% 3.3124753.3124753.3124753.3124753.312475
Cristóbal Bedoya, a medical doctor, returns to his hometown, a small Colombian city in the banks of the Magdalena river, after being away for twenty seven years. At the local cemetery, he visits the grave of Santiago Nasar, his best friend, who was murdered almost three decades ago. Still haunted by the past, Cristóbal attempts to revisits the event that lead to his friend's murder talking with those close to Santiago. Their memories take them to the time of the crime.