Giuliano Biagetti

{{Short description|Italian film director and screenwriter}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Giuliano Biagetti

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1925|4|12}}

| birth_place = La Spezia

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1998|3|29|1925|4|12}}

| death_place = Rome

| occupation = Film director and screenwriter

}}

Giuliano Biagetti (12 April 1925 – 29 March 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in La Spezia into a family of Pisan origins, Biagetti studied medicine at the university of Pisa, and during this time he founded the stage company "The brigade of Doctors", for which he wrote several comic-grotesque plays.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} He moved to Rome in the early fifties, and there he had some experience as a documentarist and as an assistant director of notable directors including Joseph Losey, Giorgio Ferroni, Giacomo Gentilomo and Roberto Rossellini, who produced and wrote the feature film debut of Biagetti, the melodrama Rivalità.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} After a badly distributed second work Biagetti abandoned films, devoting himself to the production and direction of commercials.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} He came back to cinema in 1968, directing two commercially successful films which had some political and social commitment, then since 1972 he focused on more low-profile genre films, in which he was sometimes credited as Pier Giorgio Ferretti.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}

Filmography

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