Luigi Di Gianni

Biography

Luigi Di Gianni (born in Naples on October 20, 1926 and died in Rome on May 10, 2019) is an Italian screenwriter and director. Luigi Di Gianni believes in the power of cinema. It is this spirit, tragic and rogue, that has always possessed him. And that makes his films an experience difficult to forget in any hurry. It is an insinuating spirit, which ends up delighting and even tormenting the spectator, at first alien to her. It has multiform and unpredictable tentacles, which evade the safety of easy classification. Every time one tries to venture a definition, one has the suspicion of falling into reductionism, as if something is always missing. Starting with an inevitable question, however tedious it may seem: can we be content to speak, in his case, about documentary cinema? If asked, Di Gianni would certainly answer with a peremptory no, and for good reason. His is a decidedly authorial cinema. It is crossed by cultural and intellectual tensions that embrace literature, music, philosophy and great cinema. It is sustained by a sometimes unsatisfied desire to control rhythms, atmospheres, sounds, lights, movements… Above all, it is driven by the conviction that cinema is an exp…

Directed

1. The Time of the Beginning (1974) — Director
2. Magia Lucana (1958) — Director
3. Nascita di un culto (1968) — Director
4. Un medico di campagna (2012) — Director
5. La tana (1967) — Director
6. Vajont (Natale 1963) (1964) — Director
7. Landslide in Lucania (1960) — Director
8. The Power of the Spirits (1968) — Director
9. I misteri di Roma (1963) — Director
10. La ragazza di plastica (1968) — Director
11. Morte di Padre Pio (1971) — Director
12. Il monastero di Rila (1962) — Director
13. Atto senza parole (1969) — Director
14. Monumenti d’Italia Ostia Antica (1955) — Director
15. L' ultima faccia di Medusa (1958) — Director
16. La frattura (1956) — Director
17. Il gallo canta a mezzanotte (1958) — Director
18. Il cancelliere Krehler (1972) — Director
19. Il Cinegiornale della pace (1963) — Director
20. Lotta contro i mostri (1963) — Director
21. L' uomo e la maschera (1963) — Director
22. Carnevale a Ronciglione (1963) — Director
23. Il sogno (1966) — Director
24. Il ricevimento (1968) — Director
25. Una malattia che si chiama Sud (1968) — Director
26. Basilicata, una regione tra due mari (1978) — Director
27. Essere capo (1967) — Director
28. Chanukkà (Festa delle luci) (1968) — Director
29. La Milano di Achille Bertarelli (1987) — Director
30. L'arresto (1954) — Director
31. Pericolo a Valsinni (1959) — Director
32. Le rocce di Belogradčick (1962) — Director
33. Antiche città bulgare (1962) — Director
34. La punidura (1959) — Director
35. Via Tasso (1960) — Director
36. Il culto delle pietre (1967) — Director
37. Ailano, la tradizione (2005) — Director
38. La Madonna in cielo, la "matre" in terra (2006) — Director
39. Appunti per un film su Kafka - Nella colonia penale (2013) — Director
40. Carlo Gesualdo. Notes for a film (2009) — Director