Biography
Renato Castellani (4 September 1913 – 28 December 1985) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Son of a representative of Kodak, he was born in Varigotti, at the time a hamlet of Final Pia, which became Finale Ligure (Savona) in 1927, where his mother had returned from Argentina to give birth to his son. He spent his childhood in Argentina, in the city of Rosario. After 12 years, he returned to Liguria and resumed his studies in Genoa. He moved to Milan, where he graduated from the Polytechnic University in architecture. In Milan he met Livio Castiglioni and together they aired for GUF (Fascist University Group) L'ora radiofonica and La fontana malata by Aldo Palazzeschi, experimenting with new techniques for sound editing on radio. He began collaborating in 1936 as a military consultant for The Great Appeal, a film by Mario Camerini. He worked as a film critic and worked - as a screenwriter or assistant director - with important names of the Italian cinema of the time, such as Augusto Genina, with whom he signed the script for Castles in the air (1939), by Mario Soldati, of which he was assistant director on the set of Malombra (1942). He then worked with the director Al…
Directed
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Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) — Director
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Ghosts, Italian Style (1967) — Director
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Hell in the City (1959) — Director
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Under the Sun of Rome (1948) — Director
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Romeo and Juliet (1954) — Director
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Controsesso (1964) — Director
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Three Nights of Love (1964) — Director
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The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1971) — Director
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Crazy Sea (1963) — Director
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Professor, My Son (1946) — Director
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It's Forever Springtime (1950) — Director
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Woman of the Mountains (1944) — Director
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Zazà (1944) — Director
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A Pistol Shot (1942) — Director
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I sogni nel cassetto (1957) — Director
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The Brigand (1961) — Director
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A Brief Season (1969) — Director
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Verdi (1982) — Director
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Il furto della gioconda (1978) — Director
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Verdi (1982) — Director
