Director
Mauro Bolognini
104 years · Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy · 42 films
Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian film and stage director. Bolognini began directing his own feature films in the mid-1950s, and received his first international success with Wild Love (Gli innamorati). His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include Young Husbands (Giovani mariti), The Big Night (La notte brava), From a Roman Balcony (La giornata balorda), and the Marcello Mastroianni-Claudia Cardinale starrer Il bell'Antonio, all written by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Parting professionally with Pasolini in 1961, Bolognini directed two love stories starring Claudia Cardinale, The Lovemakers (La viaccia) and Careless (Senilità), and the coming-of-age films Agostino and Corruption (La corruzione) before turning his talents to a series of international anthology films, including The Dolls (Le bambole), Three Faces of a Woman (I tre volti), The Queens (Le fate) and The Witches (Le streghe). Bolognini returned to features in 1966 with Madamigella di Maupin (Mademoiselle de Maupin) featuring Catherine Spaak and Robert Hossein. His films of the 1970s include the period dramas Metello and Bubù, both starring Massimo Ranieri, The Murri Affair (Fatti di gente perbene) starring Giancarlo Giannini and Catherine Deneuve and The Inheritance (L'eredità Ferramonti) with Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda. In 1981, Bolognini filmed The Lady of the Camellias (La storia vera della signora delle camelie), inspired by the Alexandre Dumas, fils novel and play. Throughout the decade, he continued directing feature films, as well as the television miniseries The Charterhouse of Parma and A Time of Indifference. His final feature was the soft-core erotic drama Husband and Lovers (La villa del venerdì) starring Julian Sands and Joanna Pacula, released in 1991.
Best known for
Filmography 42
Husbands and Lovers
1991 · Director
On Film Movement Plus
Time of Indifference
1991 · Director
12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989 · Director
Farewell Moscow
1987 · Director, Screenplay
The Venetian Woman
1986 · Director, Screenplay
Lady of the Camelias
1981 · Director
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
1978 · Director
Black Journal
1977 · Director
On Plex
The Inheritance
1976 · Director
On Plex
Down the Ancient Stairs
1975 · Director
Libera, My Love
1975 · Writer, Director
The Murri Affair
1974 · Director
Chronicle of a Homicide
1972 · Director
Bubu
1971 · Director, Writer
Metello
1970 · Screenplay, Director
He and She
1969 · Director, Screenplay
That Splendid November
1969 · Director
Caprice Italian Style
1968 · Director
Arabella
1967 · Director
The Oldest Profession
1967 · Director
The Witches
1967 · Director
On Philo
The Queens
1966 · Director
On Fawesome
Mademoiselle de Maupin
1966 · Director
The Three Faces
1965 · Director