Mauro Bolognini

Directing·Jun 28, 1922·Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy

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Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian film and stage director. Bolognini began directing his own feature films in the mid-1950s, and received his first international success with Wild Love (Gli innamorati). His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include Young Husbands (Giovani mariti), The Big Night (La notte brava), From a Roman Balcony (La giornata balorda), and the Marcello Mastroianni-Claudia Cardinale starrer Il bell'Antonio, all written by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Parting professionally with Pasolini in 1961, Bolognini directed two love stories starring Claudia Cardinale, The Lovemakers (La viaccia) and Careless (Senilità), and the coming-of-age films Agostino and Corruption (La corruzione) before turning his talents to a series of international anthology films, including The Dolls (Le bambole), Three Faces of a Woman (I tre volti), The Queens (Le fate) and The Witches (Le streghe). Bolognini returned to features in 1966 with Madamigella di Maupin (Mademoiselle de Maupin) featuring Catherine Spaak and Robert Hossein. His films of the 1970s include the period dramas Metello and Bubù, both starring Massimo Ranieri, The Murri Affair (Fatti di gente perbene) starring Giancarlo Giannini and Catherine Deneuve and The Inheritance (L'eredità Ferramonti) with Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda. In 1981, Bolognini filmed The Lady of the Camellias (La storia vera della signora delle camelie), inspired by the Alexandre Dumas, fils novel and play. Throughout the decade, he continued directing feature films, as well as the television miniseries The Charterhouse of Parma and A Time of Indifference. His final feature was the soft-core erotic drama Husband and Lovers (La villa del venerdì) starring Julian Sands and Joanna Pacula, released in 1991.

Film	Credit
Husbands and Lovers1991 · Director	Director
Time of Indifference1991 · Director	Director
12 Directors for 12 Cities1989 · Director	Director
Farewell Moscow1987 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Venetian Woman1986 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Lady of the Camelias1981 · Director	Director
Where Are You Going on Holiday?1978 · Director	Director
Black Journal1977 · Director	Director
The Inheritance1976 · Director	Director
Down the Ancient Stairs1975 · Director	Director
Libera, My Love1975 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Murri Affair1974 · Director	Director
Chronicle of a Homicide1972 · Director	Director
Bubu1971 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Metello1970 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
He and She1969 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
That Splendid November1969 · Director	Director
Caprice Italian Style1968 · Director	Director
Arabella1967 · Director	Director
The Oldest Profession1967 · Director	Director
The Witches1967 · Director	Director
The Queens1966 · Director	Director
Mademoiselle de Maupin1966 · Director	Director
The Three Faces1965 · Director	Director
The Dolls1965 · Director	Director
Woman Is a Wonderful Thing1964 · Director	Director
My Wife1964 · Director	Director
Corruption1963 · Director	Director
Agostino1962 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Careless1962 · Director	Director
The Lovemakers1961 · Director	Director
From a Roman Balcony1960 · Director	Director
Il bell'Antonio1960 · Director	Director
The Big Night1959 · Director	Director
You're on Your Own1959 · Director	Director
Young Husbands1958 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Marisa1957 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo1956 · Director	Director
The Golden Vein1955 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Wild Love1955 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Knights of the Queen1954 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Passionate song1953 · Screenplay	Screenplay
I'll See You on the Balcony1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay