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Filmmaker · Italy

Alessandro Blasetti

Died in 1987

Alessandro Blasetti was born in Rome on 3 July 1900. A law graduate, he turned to journalism and became a film critic in the mid-1920s and founded several magazines that campaigned for the renewal of national production, including Cinematografo. In 1929 he directed his first film, devoted to the draining of the Pontine Marshes, and then made historical films, comedies and dramas. He died in Rome on 1 February 1987.

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