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Filmmaker · Switzerland, Italy

Luigi Comencini

Died in 2007

Luigi Comencini was born on 8 June 1916 in Salò, in Italy. Trained as an architect, he became involved early on in film preservation, was a screenwriter and assistant, made short films, then directed his first feature film at the end of the forties. He went on to make his mark in the comedy of manners and, throughout his life, often returned to subjects of childhood, up to an adaptation of Pinocchio for television, in 1972, counted among the best productions of Italian television. He died in Rome on 6 April 2007, aged ninety.

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