Fernando Di Leo

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Biography

Italian film director

  • Primary profession
  • Writer·director·actor
  • Nationality
  • Kingdom of Italy
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 11 January 1932
  • Place of birth
  • San Ferdinando di Puglia
  • Death date
  • 2003-12-01
  • Death age
  • 71
  • Place of death
  • Rome
  • Knows language
  • Italian language

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

In 1972 he planned to make a movie about homosexuality in Italy entitled "Il pederasta" ("The Homosexual") with Barbara Bouchet , Margaret Lee and Gianni Macchia. The project was postponed because of Lees heath problems, and then the producers refused to back the movie. Only a brief scene was eventually shot.

Planned to make a movie called "Il dio Kurt" ("God Kurt"), an adaptation of Oedipus Rex settled in an concentration camp written by Franco Arcalli and based on a play by Alberto Moravia. Henry Fonda and Charlotte Rampling were supposed to star, but the producers eventually canceled the project.

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