Catrano Catrani

Catrano Catrani was born on 31 October 1910 in Città di Castello, in Umbria, and trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He emigrated to Argentina in 1937 and joined the San Miguel studios in Buenos Aires, where he made advertising films and documentaries, then his first feature film in 1942. A comedy of manners set in the upper Paraná brought him his first great success, and a film about a nineteenth-century caudillo won him the prize for best direction at San Sebastián in 1963. He died in Buenos Aires on 19 December 1974.

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• CinemaCodiciaCatrano Catrani · 1955Cinema