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Andrea Crisanti is a Scriptwriter and Production Design Italien born on 2 june 1936 at Rome (Italie)

Andrea Crisanti

Andrea Crisanti
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Nationality Italie
Birth 2 june 1936 at Rome (Italie)
Death 7 may 2012 (at 75 years)

Andrea Crisanti (Rome, 12 juin 1936 - 7 mai 2012) est un scénographe et un costumier italien.

Biography

Andrea Crisanti, qui a étudié l'Art à l'Académie des Beaux-arts de la Rome, a commencé sa carrière au cinéma avec Mario Monicelli comme l'assistant décorateur de Mario Garbuglia sur le film La Grande Guerre (1959). Après avoir travaillé avec de nombreux décorateurs, il participe au film Maciste en enfer (1962) de Riccardo Freda, puis travaille de nouveau au cinéma et aussi au théâtre.

Sa carrière prend un nouveau départ en 1970 avec Francesco Rosi. Il réalise les scènes de Cinema Paradiso (1988) et Une pure formalité (1994) pour Giuseppe Tornatore, qui reçoit le Prix David di Donatello.

Andrea Crisanti a travaillé pour Franco Zeffirelli (Le Jeune Toscanini, 1988) et Gianni Amelio (Les Enfants volés, 1992), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Identification d'une femme, 1982) et Andrej Tarkovskij (Nostalghia, 1983).

Crisanti a enseigné l'art au Centre de Cinématographie Expérimentale de Rome depuis 1995 et a été président de l'A.S.C. (Association des Créateurs de Costumes).

Best films

Cinema Paradiso (1988)
(Production Design)
The Four Days of Naples (1962)
(Assistant Production Design)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
(Art Direction)
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
(Production Design)

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Filmography of Andrea Crisanti (40 films)

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Scriptwriter

Art

A Magnificent Haunting, 1h45
Directed by Ferzan Özpetek
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film
Actors Elio Germano, Margherita Buy, Vittoria Puccini, Loredana Cannata, Giuseppe Fiorello, Cem Yılmaz
Roles Production Design
Rating65% 3.297073.297073.297073.297073.29707
Pietro Pontechievello is a gay man who rents a large house in the historic center of Rome. In the abode Pietro quickly learns of strange and mysterious presences. The house is haunted by the ghosts of members of a theater company dating back to the times of fascism, and now they do not know that are dead. Indeed, the ghosts believe they are on leave to participate in a new show, and Pietro does not know how to drive the intruders from the building.
Loose Cannons, 1h50
Directed by Ferzan Özpetek
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Coming out, LGBT-related film
Actors Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Ilaria Occhini, Andrea Rivera, Lunetta Savino, Ennio Fantastichini
Roles Production Design
Rating72% 3.601553.601553.601553.601553.60155
The Cantones are a bourgeois family who own a pasta factory in Lecce in conservative Southern Italy. One of the two sons, Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio), returns from his studies in Rome and hopes to make the most of a family reunion to reveal his homosexuality. Tommaso discusses his plans with his elder brother, Antonio (Alessandro Preziosi), and also tells him about his desire to break away from the family business to become a writer in Rome. During a dinner with the Brunetti family, with whom the Cantones are in business, just as Tommaso is about to share his news, Antonio interrupts and reveals to everyone that he himself is homosexual. Mr Cantone (Ennio Fantastichini), the brothers' father, takes the news badly and is admitted to hospital.
Blood of the Losers, 1h50
Directed by Michele Soavi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Michele Placido, Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Rivera, Giovanna Ralli, Philippe Leroy, Stefano Dionisi
Roles Production Design
Rating56% 2.8303152.8303152.8303152.8303152.830315
Le film se déroule pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Le commissaire Francesco Dogliani doit mener une enquête sur l'homicide d'une femme et les mystères de sa sœur jumelle. En même temps, il doit assumer les difficultés et les contradictions de la Guerre dans une situation pleine de contrastes, puisqu'un de ses frères est un résistant et un autre est engagé dans l'armée de la République sociale italienne.
The Goodbye Kiss, 1h47
Directed by Michele Soavi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari, Carlo Cecchi, Antonello Fassari, Zoe Aggeliki
Roles Production Design
Rating68% 3.443913.443913.443913.443913.44391
Un terroriste italien repenti qui a trahi ses amis pour échapper à une lourde condamnation tente vainement de retrouver une vie normale à sa sortie de prison.
Facing Windows, 1h40
Directed by Ferzan Özpetek
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra Yılmaz, Flavio Insinna
Roles Art Direction
Rating71% 3.596393.596393.596393.596393.59639
Giovanna (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her husband Filippo (Filippo Nigro) have settled into life. They both have jobs that make them unhappy. She works as an accountant. He works the graveyard shift because he is too weak to ask his boss for a daytime slot. They argue about money, sex, time and work... There is a subtle sense that this is a marriage whose love is dwindling fast. Perhaps they are only going through the motions for the sake of their kids
The Emperor's New Clothes, 1h47
Directed by Alan Taylor
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Nigel Terry, Hugh Bonneville, Trevor Cooper
Roles Production Design
Rating67% 3.397113.397113.397113.397113.39711
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte (Holm), after six years in exile on the isle of St. Helena, has a plan to escape. Switching places with lowly French deckhand Eugene Lenormand (Holm again), Napoleon will make his way to Paris, at which time Eugene will announce the switch, allowing Napoleon to reclaim his throne.
Viper
Viper (2000)

Directed by Sergio Citti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Harvey Keitel, Giancarlo Giannini, Olimpia Carlisi
Roles Production Design
Rating54% 2.7259252.7259252.7259252.7259252.725925
Excellent Cadavers
Directed by Ricky Tognazzi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Chazz Palminteri, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Galiena, Lina Sastri, Arnoldo Foà, Ivo Garrani
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.245263.245263.245263.245263.24526
1992. Le célèbre juge anti-Mafia Giovanni Falcone et son épouse meurent dans un attentat à la bombe alors qu'ils traversent Palerme en voiture. Retour en 1980. Intègre, idéaliste et résolu, Falcone commence sa carrière de magistrat au palais de justice de Palerme. Sa spécialité : les arnaques bancaires...
The Truce
The Truce (1997)
, 2h5
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors John Turturro, Rade Šerbedžija, Massimo Ghini, Stefano Dionisi, Roberto Citran, Claudio Bisio
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.2429453.2429453.2429453.2429453.242945
Although liberated on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
Moon Shadow, 1h26
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Tchéky Karyo, Nino Manfredi, Johan Leysen, Isabelle Pasco, Paolo Sassanelli
Roles Production Design
Rating69% 3.4927553.4927553.4927553.4927553.492755
Lorenzo, an astrophysicist, has inherited a house in Sicily. He has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts the job with help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them. He finds out Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first Lorenzo is angry but then his good heart prevails.
A Pure Formality, 1h48
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Tano Cimarosa, Massimo Vanni
Roles Production Design
Rating74% 3.748933.748933.748933.748933.74893
Onoff (Depardieu) is a famous writer who is now a recluse. The Inspector (Polanski) is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. As the head of an isolated, rural police station the Inspector tries to establish events through careful interrogation and deduction. By painstaking inquiry, he clears up a mysterious killing and brings the writer a new and strange realisation.
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Directed by Ridha Béhi
Origin Tunisie
Genres Drama
Actors Ben Gazzara, Laurence Masliah, Jacques Perrin, Françoise Rigal, Rim Turki
Roles Production Design

Richard, journaliste et reporter, part pour la Palestine. L'imminence d'une signature d'un accord de paix entre Israéliens et Palestiniens et la douce perspective de retrouver son amie Esther a raison de sa résistance à se relancer dans le reportage politique. Dès son arrivée à Jérusalem, son chemin croise celui d'un « guide » palestinien, personnage ouvert, chaleureux et volubile, surnommé « radio-locale ». Celui-ci est en plein émoi, comme toute sa famille partie à la recherche d'une grand-mère disparue en 1948 lors de l'entrée des Israéliens à Jaffa et qui vient soudainement de réapparaître à la une d'une journal local.
Everybody's Fine, 1h58
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Roberto Nobile, Salvatore Cascio, Jacques Perrin
Roles Production Design
Rating76% 3.8389753.8389753.8389753.8389753.838975
Matteo Scuro, a retired Sicilian bureaucrat and opera buff, has been stood up by his five adult children during the summer vacation, all of whom live in various cities on the Italian mainland with what he believes are responsible jobs. Despite their not visiting and the neighbours' criticisms, he remains optimistic, considering that his children could not come because they are too busy. His children are named after popular opera characters, Tosca for Puccini's Tosca, Canio for Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Norma for Bellini's Norma, Guglielmo for Rossini's Guglielmo Tell and Alvaro for Verdi's La forza del destino.