Nino Oxilia

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

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| name = Nino Oxilia

| image = Oxilia-n---foto-1914.jpg

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| caption = Oxilia {{circa|1914}}

| birthname = Angelo Agostino Adolfo Oxilia

| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1889|11|13}}

| birth_place = Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|1917|11|18|1889|11|13}}

| death_place = Monte Grappa, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy

| othername =

| occupation = Director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1912–1917 (film)

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Nino Oxilia (13 November 1889 – 18 November 1917) was an Italian playwright, screenwriter and film director.Moliterno p. 258 His 1911 play Goodbye Youth, written with Sandro Camasio, was turned into several films. He also wrote the first lyrics for the song "Giovinezza" in 1909. He died in combat on the Western Front during the First World War.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Moliterno, Gino: The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.