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Filmmaker · Italy

Pietro Germi

Died in 1974

Pietro Germi was born in Genoa in 1914. He entered the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome, where he studied acting and then directing, and was an extra, actor, assistant and occasionally screenwriter before directing his first film in the mid-1940s. He moved from social drama and the courtroom film to satirical comedy, with a predilection for Sicily, and himself played the lead in several of his films. He died in Rome in 1974.

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