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Pietro Germi
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14 September 1914 - 5 December 1974
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Pietro Jermi was born on 14 September 1914 in Genoa. Before moving to Rome, he studied at the Maritime Institute in Genoa. He graduated first from the acting and then the director's department of the Experimental Cinematography Center in Rome. He worked as an assistant to various directors. In 1945, Pietro Germi shot his first film “The Witness” (under the artistic direction of director A. Blazetti), and also acted as a co-writer of the script. The director advanced to the ranks of recognized masters
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Pietro Jermi was born on 14 September 1914 in Genoa. Before moving to Rome, he studied at the Maritime Institute in Genoa. He graduated first from the acting and then the director's department of the Experimental Cinematography Center in Rome. He worked as an assistant to various directors. In 1945, Pietro Germi shot his first film “The Witness” (under the artistic direction of director A. Blazetti), and also acted as a co-writer of the script. The director advanced to the ranks of recognized masters of neorealism thanks to his acutely social paintings “The Misguided Youth” (1947), “In the Name of the Law” (“Under the Sky of Sicily”, 1949), “The Road of Hope” (1950) and “The City Is Defended” (1951). During the period of the decline of neorealism, he directed several commercial films, and in the second half of the 1950s, Pietro Germi, who first played in cinema in 1948, showed great acting talent, starring in several of his films: in psychological dramas about the life of workers “Machinist” (1956) and “Sharpless Man” (1958) and in the anti-fascist film “Cursed confusion” (1959). A huge success fell to his satirical comedy Divorce in Italian (1961), and for this work Jermi was awarded the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Comedy and the Oscar for Best Screenplay. The paintings “Divorce in Italian”, “Seducated and Abandoned” (1964), “Ladies and Gentlemen” (1965) gave rise to the direction of “Italian comedy”, which received universal recognition. In 1974, Pietro Germi began work on the film My Friends, but did not have time to complete it - the director died during filming from hepatitis, and the last film was finished by director Mario Monicelli.