Luciano Emmer
Biography
Luciano Emmer (19 January 1918 – 16 September 2009) was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan, but most of his childhood lived in Venice.
He started as filmmaker at filming Giotto's frescoes in Padua in 1938. Screenwriter Sergio Amidei, found the finance for Emmer to make a feature about Romans spending a Sunday in August on the beach at Ostia. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura: An Adventure in Art. He has directed more documentaries than fiction pictures, most notably Domenica d'agosto and the romance-comedy-drama Three Girls from Rome.
Luciano Emmer started his career as a filmmaker working with Enrico Gras. He founded the production company Dolomiti Film and directed several documentaries. In 1949, Emmer produced his first feature film Dimanche d'August (1950) with Marcello Mastroianni. Also with Mastroianni, the following year he made Paris is always Paris (1951).
In the 1950s, Luciano Emmer made advertising films meanwhile he continued with his documentary work. He was labeled as an example of the Italian pink neorealism. In 1956, Emmer directed with Robert Enrico To Each His Own Paradise. After The Girl in the Window (1961), a social drama with Marina Vlady and Lino Ventura, he turned to television. He made his return to the cinema with Enough! I make a movie.
Directing (53 movies)
Incontrare Picasso
2000
Three Girls from Rome
1952
Girl in the Window
1961
Sunday in August
1950
The Bigamist
1956
Trilogy - the Thought, the Look, the Word
2008
Camilla
1954
Cavalcata Di Mezzo Secolo
1952
Pictura
1951
A Long Long Long Night of Love
2001
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957
Paris Is Always Paris
1951
Earthly Paradise
1956
Guttuso e... Il "Marat morto" di David
1972
Picasso
1954
Giotto
1969
3 Women
2003
Racconto da un affresco
1941
Basta! Adesso tocca a noi
1990
Goya
1950
Leonardo da Vinci
1952
Islands in the Lagoon
1948
Romantici a Venezia
1948
Bella di notte
1997
Bianchi pascoli
1947
Il dramma di Cristo
1948
La sublime fatica
1967
Il miracolo di San Gennaro
1948
La distrazione
1965
Le pecore di Cheyenne
2008
Goya La Paz la guerra
2009
Le flame del paradis - Le fiamme del paradiso
2006
Con aura senz'aura. Viaggio ai confini dell'arte
2003
Le donne, i sonetti, gli amori di Raffaello
2009
Carceri d'invenzione. Piranesi
2009
Il paradiso terrestre
1942
Destino d'amore, ovvero, piccolo mundo al platino
1942
High School
1954
Carosello che passione!
1977
The Legend of Saint Ursula
1948
Il Cantico delle creature
1943
Guerrieri
1942
Il paradiso perduto
1949
La musa pensosa. Viaggio nel pensiero dei filosofi greci e romani
2007
The Invention of the Cross
1949
La sua terra
1941
All Human Rights for All
2008
I fratelli miracolosi
1948
Aimez-Vous l'italie?
1976
L'allegoria della primavera
1949
I magici colori di Napoli
2004
Nostalgie
2001
Le Drame du Christ raconté par Giotto
1966
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Il paradiso terrestre | 1942 | Writer |
| L'allegoria della primavera | 1949 | Writer |
| Sunday in August | 1950 | Screenplay |
| Goya | 1950 | Writer |
| Paris Is Always Paris | 1951 | Screenplay |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1952 | Writer |
| High School | 1954 | Screenplay |
| Picasso | 1954 | Writer |
| Camilla | 1954 | Screenplay |
| Girl in the Window | 1961 | Screenplay |
| 3 Women | 2003 | Writer |
| I magici colori di Napoli | 2004 | Writer |
| Le flame del paradis - Le fiamme del paradiso | 2006 | Screenplay |
| Trilogy - the Thought, the Look, the Word | 2008 | Writer |