Claudio Caligari
{{short description|Italian film director and screenwriter}}
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Claudio Caligari (7 February 1948 – 26 May 2015) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was Perché droga (1975).{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} He made his feature film debut in 1983, with the drug-centered drama Toxic Love, which won the De Sica Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 2000|isbn=8877424230}} Only fifteen years later he directed another work, the neo-noir The Scent of the Night. He completed the editing of his third and last film, Non essere cattivo, a few days before his death from a tumour.{{cite news|title=Addio a Claudio Caligari, il ricordo è di Valerio Mastandrea: "Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto"|url=http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2015/05/27/news/addio_al_regista_claudio_caligari_il_ricordo_e_di_valerio_mastandrea-115372356/|accessdate=29 May 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=27 May 2015}}
Filmography
Director and Writer
- Lotte nel Belice (1977)
- Toxic Love (Amore tossico) (1983)
- The Scent of the Night (L'odore della notte) (1998)
- Don't Be Bad (Non essere cattivo) (2015)
References
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External links
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Category:20th-century Italian people
Category:Italian film directors
Category:Italian screenwriters
Category:People from Arona, Piedmont
Category:Deaths from cancer in Lazio
Category:Italian male screenwriters
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