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Pietro Germi
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pietro Germi (14 September 1914, Genoa - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pietro Germi (14 September 1914, Genoa - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting. He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During his time in school, Germi supported himself by working as an extra, bit actor, assistant director, and, on occasion, writer. Germi made his directorial debut in 1945 with the film Il testimone. His early work, this film included, were very much in the Italian Neorealist style; many were social dramas that dealt with contemporary issues pertaining to people of Sicilian heritage. Through the years, Germi shifted away from social drama towards satirical comedies, but retained his loved element of the Sicilian people. In the 1960s, Germi received worldwide success with the films Divorce, Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned, and Signore e Signori. The latter is better known in the English-speaking world as The Birds the Bees and the Italians. He was nominated for Academy Awards in both directing and writing for Divorce, Italian Style, and, subsequently, won in the writing category. He also won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Signore e signori. Germi collaborated on the scripts for all the films he directed and appeared as an actor in a few of them. He died in Rome of hepatitis on 5 December 1974.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2006
Marcello, una vita dolce
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1975
My Friends
Movie Story
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1972
Alfredo, Alfredo
Movie Director
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1970
A Pocketful of Chestnuts
Movie Director
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1968
Serafino
Movie Director
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1967
The Climax
Movie Director
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1966
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Movie Director
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1965
A Man Named John
Movie Pontiff's Father
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1964
Seduced and Abandoned
Movie Director
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1961
Divorce Italian Style
Movie Director
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1961
The Lovemakers
Movie Stefano
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1961
Blood Feud
Movie Bolognesi
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1960
Lipstick
Movie Commissario Fioresi
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1960
Five Branded Women
Movie Partisan Commander
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1959
The Facts of Murder
Movie Il Dott. Ingravallo
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1958
Man of Straw
Movie Andrea
More credits
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1956
The Railroad Man
Movie Andrea Marcocci
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1956
Cinépanorama
TV show Self
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1954
Mid-Century Loves
Movie Director
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1953
Black 13
Movie Writer
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1953
Jealousy
Movie Director
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1952
The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo
Movie Director
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1952
Mademoiselle Gobete
Movie Director
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1951
The City Defends Itself
Movie Director
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1950
The Path of Hope
Movie Director
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1950
Against the Law
Movie Story
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1949
In the Name of the Law
Movie Director
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1948
Escape to France
Movie Tembien
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1948
Lost Youth
Movie Director
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1947
Anglo-Saxon writers and poets in Rome
Movie Director
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1946
Monte Cassino
Movie
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1946
The Testimony
Movie Director
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1945
I dieci comandamenti
Movie Writer
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1943
Gli ultimi filibustieri
Movie Writer
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1943
Il figlio del corsaro rosso
Movie Writer
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1941
The Iron Crown
Movie Cavaliere
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1941
L'amore canta
Movie Writer
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1940
The Sinner
Movie Assistant Director
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1939
Retroscena
Movie Writer
