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LUCIANO EMMER

Milán (Italia/Italy) / 1918

Luciano Emmer is an Italian film director and father of the actor and director Michele Emmer. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura. He has directed more documentaries than fiction pictures, the most famous of which are Domenica d'agosto (1949), and the romance-comedy-drama Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (Three Girls from Rome, 1952). Among his fiction films are Parigi è sempre Parigi (1951), La ragazza in vetrina (Woman in the Window, 1961), and L´acqua… il fuoco (The Water.. the Fire, 2003). Some of his numerous documentary films are: Romantici a Venezia (1948), about the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century; Guerra e pace (1954), that examines the themes of war and peace - successively - in the art of Picasso; and Cesare Zavattini e il "Campo di grano con corvi" di Van Gogh (1972), on the famous Italian scriptwriter who collaborated in Emmer´s most famous film, Domenica d´agosto.

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