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Davide Ferrario (born 26 June 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author. Born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Ferrario graduated in Anglo-American literature, then he began to work in film distribution, and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Godfrey Reggio. He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine Cineforum, and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder. After collaborating to several screenplays, Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Non date da mangiare agli animali, and in 1989 he directed his first feature film, the neo-noir The End of the Night. His 2004 film After Midnight entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award. Also a novelist, his 1995 debut novel Dissolvenza al nero was later adapted into a film, Fade to Black by Oliver Parker.
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2024
Italo Calvino nelle città
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2024
Zamora
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2023
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
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2023
A guardia di una fede
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2021
Boys
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2021
Handbook of Movie Theaters' History
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2021
Blood on the Crown
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2020
Torino 20venti - Storie da un altro mondo
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2020
Nuovo cinema paralitico
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2019
Star stuff
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2017
Cento anni
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2015
Sexxx
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2014
La zuppa del demonio
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2014
La luna su Torino
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2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
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2011
Piazza Garibaldi
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2009
Tutta colpa di Giuda
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2006
Primo Levi's Journey
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2006
Fade to Black
Movie Novel
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2004
Se devo essere sincera
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2004
After Midnight
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2003
Mondonuovo
Movie Himself
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2000
I-TIGI a Gibellina - Racconto per Ustica
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1999
Guardami
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1999
In principio erano le mutande
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1998
Homo Cinematographicus
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1998
Children of Hannibal
Movie Story
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1997
Sul 45° parallelo
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1997
We All Fall Down
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1997
Partigiani
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1995
Materiale resistente
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1994
Love Burns
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1989
La fine della notte
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1987
Matewan
Movie Gianni