Carlo Infascelli
{{Short description|Italian film producer, screenwriter and film director (1913–1984)}}
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| birth_place = Rome, Italy
| death_date = {{death-date and age|30 October 1984|1 January 1912}}
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Screenwriter
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Carlo Infascelli (31 August 1913 - 30 October 1984) was an Italian producer, director, screenwriter and journalist.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Infascelli started his career as a producer in the early 1940s.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} Shortly after the end of the World War II, following a journey to Sweden he bought the rights to import and distribute several 1930s and 1940s Swedish films in Italy, and from then he started an intense activity of importer, making the Italian audience discover directors such as Ernst Lubitsch, G. W. Pabst and Robert Siodmak.{{cite news|last1=Maria Pia Fusco|title=E' morto a Roma il produttore Carlo Infascelli|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1984/11/01/morto-roma-il-produttore-carlo-infascelli.html?ref=search|accessdate=20 October 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=1 November 1984}} In the 1950s, starting from Half a Century of Song, he got large success with a series of musical anthology comedy films directed by Domenico Paolella. Starting from 1963 he also wrote and directed a number of films, mainly comedies. He abandoned the cinema industry in 1977, following the death of his son Roberto.
Selected filmography
- Cavalcade of Song (1953)
- Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! (1954)
- Red and Black (1955)
- Songs of Italy (1955)
References
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External links
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Category:Italian film producers
Category:Italian film directors
Category:20th-century Italian screenwriters
Category:Italian male screenwriters
Category:Film people from Rome
Category:Journalists from Rome
Category:20th-century Italian male writers
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