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Renato Castellani is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Assistant Director and Production Design Italien born on 4 september 1913

Renato Castellani

Renato Castellani
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Nationality Italie
Birth 4 september 1913
Death 28 december 1985 (at 72 years) at Rome (Italie)

Renato Castellani est un scénariste et réalisateur de cinéma italien, né le 4 septembre 1913 à Finale Ligure (Ligurie) et mort le 28 décembre 1985 à Rome.

Biography

Renato Castellani suit une formation en architecture, puis travaille à la radio (1934). Il collabore également à la revue Cinema. Il débute, en tant que scénariste, pour L'orologio a cucù de Camillo Mastrocinque en 1938. Puis, il devient l'assistant d'Alessandro Blasetti pour une de ses réalisations les plus ambitieuses : La Couronne de fer en 1940. Il passe à la réalisation, dès l'année suivante, avec Un coup de pistolet (Un colpo di pistola) - inspiré d'une nouvelle d'Alexandre Pouchkine - film emblématique d'une tendance apparue au début des années 1940 que l'on nommera courant calligraphique, et auquel Zazà, le film suivant, se rattache encore. Castellani atténue son raffinement esthétique dans Mio figlio professore (1946), où l'humanité de l'histoire prime sur les valeurs formelles. Avec Sous le soleil de Rome (1948), Castellani inaugure un triptyque néo-réaliste, beaucoup plus descriptif qu'engagé, constitué par È primavera (1950) et surtout Deux sous d'espoir (1951), Palme d'or au Festival de Cannes. Roméo et Juliette, Lion d'Or à Venise (1954) marque le retour du cinéaste au film en costumes, conçus, à cette occasion, par Leonor Fini. Il essaye, par la suite, de renouer avec des films sociaux, mais il n'obtient plus la même réussite.

Best films

Fabiola (1949)
(Scriptwriter)

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Filmography of Renato Castellani (33 films)

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Actor

A Pistol Shot, 1h30
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Rubi Dalma, Renato Cialente, Renato Castellani, Saro Urzì
Rating68% 3.4468853.4468853.4468853.4468853.446885
In Nineteenth century Russia, two men fight a duel over a woman.

Director

A Brief Season
Directed by Renato Castellani
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Bianca Doria, Valeria Sabel
Rating67% 3.353093.353093.353093.353093.35309
Johnny is a young American who lives in Rome, where he exercises the profession of stockbroker. Luisa is a Swedish girl who works as a simultaneous translator at the FAO. They meet on the occasion of a TV show, and fall in love.
Ghosts, Italian Style, 1h44
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Aldo Giuffrè, Marcello Mastroianni, Margaret Lee, Mario Adorf
Rating55% 2.7737652.7737652.7737652.7737652.773765
Lojacono Pasquale and his wife Maria are very poor, and do not have a roof over their head. One day they are invited to live free in an apartment of a building, considered by tenants cursed, because there dwells the ghost of an old Spanish nobleman. The two, however, accept coexistence with the spirit.
Crazy Sea
Crazy Sea (1963)
, 2h
Directed by Renato Castellani, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gina Lollobrigida, Tomás Milián, Noël Roquevert, Michele Abruzzo, Odoardo Spadaro
Rating59% 2.9957452.9957452.9957452.9957452.995745
A Gênes, les fils Parenti vivotent de combines , Benedetto subvient aux besoins de la famille, il trouve un emploi grâce à Marguerite, maitresse du Livournais. Malgré de mauvaises conditions, ils doivent embarquer et prendre la mer , le père Parenti est le capitaine du bateau qui doit livrer une cargaison de vin.
Hell in the City, 1h38
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films
Actors Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Myriam Bru, Cristina Gaioni, Renato Salvatori, Alberto Sordi
Rating71% 3.585763.585763.585763.585763.58576
Egle (Anna Magnani) is an inmate of a female jail. Lina (Giulietta Masina) is a nervous newcomer who is much more temperate, with some naiveness even. Egle influences Lina and she convinces her so, successfully, Lina extorts the man who had incriminated her (Antonio Zampi detto Adone, by Alberto Sordi). Lina is released out of the prison thus. However, still in jail, Egle meets Lina again as she has been detained by exerting prostitution, with a marginal demeanor which is due to Egle's previous influence on her.
Romeo and Juliet, 2h18
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Théâtre, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Laurence Harvey, Flora Robson, John Gielgud, Norman Wooland, Bill Travers, Mervyn Johns
Rating59% 2.9957752.9957752.9957752.9957752.995775
Vérone. Lors d’un bal masqué, les jeunes Roméo et Juliette tombent éperdument amoureux l’un de l’autre, au mépris de la haine que se vouent leurs familles, les Capulet et les Montaigu. Le père de Juliette, afin de s’opposer à cette idylle, organise l’union de sa fille avec le Comte de Paris. Dans le même temps, Roméo tue un Capulet, Tyhald, pour venger Mercutio, son meilleur ami mort lors un duel. Alors que les noces de sa bien-aimée sont arrangées en toute hâte, il est poussé à l’exil loin de Vérone.
Two Cents Worth of Hope, 1h50
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Clara Bindi, Aldo Giuffrè
Rating69% 3.4755453.4755453.4755453.4755453.475545
The film is the third in director Castellani's "Young Love" trilogy (the first two were Sotto il sole di Roma (1948) and È primavera...(1950)). The story concerns the romance between Carmela (Fiore) and Antonio (Musolino). The ardor is one-sided at first, but Carmela is a determined young woman, willing to scale and conquer any obstacle in pursuing her heart's desire. Once he's "hooked," Antonio scurries from job to job to prove his financial viability. Faced with the hostility of their parents, Carmela and Antonio symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act of stark-naked bravado.
It's Forever Springtime
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Elena Varzi, Renato Baldini, Irene Genna
Rating63% 3.179853.179853.179853.179853.17985
Beppe, sicilien, est amoureux de deux femmes. Il se marie avec toutes les deux; c'est là que les ennuis commencent...
Under the Sun of Rome, 1h44
Directed by Renato Castellani, Marino Girolami, Franco Brusati
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Francesco Golisano, Alberto Sordi, Luisa Rossi, Tano Cimarosa
Rating68% 3.4334553.4334553.4334553.4334553.433455
À Rome, la signature de l'Armistice de Cassibile, promet une fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale assez proche.