Alberto Lattuada

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Biography

Italian film director

  • Primary profession
  • Writer·director·actor
  • Country
  • Italy
  • Nationality
  • Italian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 13 November 1914
  • Place of birth
  • Milan
  • Death date
  • 2005-07-03
  • Death age
  • 91
  • Place of death
  • Orvieto
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Spouses
  • Carla Del Poggio
  • Knows language
  • Italian language
  • Parents
  • Felice Lattuada

Books

Awards

Trivia

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 625-629. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Gave Federico Fellini his first job.

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1970

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1958

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1986.

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1990.

Son-in-law of Ugo Attanasio.

Son of composer Felice Lattuada , brother of production manager Bianca Lattuada.

Italian neo-realist film director and fully qualified architect. Co-founded the first film library in Italy, prior to working as an assistant to Mario Soldati. As director in his own right became noted for visual style. His subjects were often satirical, directed against socio-political hipocrisy.

Founder of the Milan Film Library.

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