Claudio Caligari

Italian film director and screenwriter

Claudio Caligari

Born	(1948-02-07)7 February 1948 Arona, Piedmont, Italy
Died	26 May 2015(2015-05-26) (aged 67) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Director

Claudio Caligari (7 February 1948 – 26 May 2015) was an Italian director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was Perché droga (1975).^[1] He made his feature film debut in 1983, with the drug-centered drama Toxic Love, which won the De Sica Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival.^[1]^[2] Only fifteen years later he directed another work, the neo-noir The Scent of the Night.^[1] He completed the editing of his third and last film, Non essere cattivo, a few days before his death from a tumour.^[3]

Filmography

Director and Writer

Lotte nel Belice (1977)
Toxic Love (Amore tossico) (1983)
The Scent of the Night (L'odore della notte) (1998)
Don't Be Bad (Non essere cattivo) (2015)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 8877424230.
^ "Addio a Claudio Caligari, il ricordo è di Valerio Mastandrea: "Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto"". La Repubblica. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.