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Alberto Lattuada
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13 November 1914 - 3 July 2005
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Italian film director Alberto Lattuada was born in the Italian city of Milan on November 13, 1914. He grew up in the creative family of composer Felice Lattouad and received an architectural education, acting as an art critic. After several years of studying world cinema and other arts, Lattouada made the film Giacomo the Idealist (1942). Then he was fascinated by documentary tapes full of historical and realistic details. His next paintings, Bandit (1946) and Without Pity (1948), were shot in the
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Italian film director Alberto Lattuada was born in the Italian city of Milan on November 13, 1914. He grew up in the creative family of composer Felice Lattouad and received an architectural education, acting as an art critic. After several years of studying world cinema and other arts, Lattouada made the film Giacomo the Idealist (1942). Then he was fascinated by documentary tapes full of historical and realistic details. His next paintings, Bandit (1946) and Without Pity (1948), were shot in the then fashionable style of neorealism.
In 1949, Lattouada was working on a painting.
"Mill on Po" Which film critics have paid much attention to. The unusualness of directorial methods was reflected in the application of neorealistic approaches to historical material describing the Italian village of the XIX century.
Director Alberto Lattuada was engaged in the adaptation of works by famous writers. He did not limit himself only to Italian authors, making films based on the books of F. Dostoevsky. His most popular film adaptations were the films “Mandragora” (1960) by N. Machiavelli, “Wolf” (1953), shot in the spirit of neorealism by J. Verga, as well as “The Crime of Giovanni Episcopo” (1947), inspired by the plot of the work “Crime and Punishment”.
After the film adaptation of F. Dostoevsky, Alberto Lattuada literally falls in love with Russian literature, shooting a considerable number of paintings based on the books of domestic authors. His works included such productions as Overcoat (1952), Storm (1958), Heart of a Dog (1975), etc. The director skillfully transferred the action to Italy, preserving the spirit and plot of the original source.
According to film critics, Lattouada owns another merit - it was he who launched the creative path of the now famous director Federico Fellini, filming together the film "Variety Lights" in 1950.
The talented director, who made a huge contribution to the history of film and literature, died on July 3, 2005 at the age of 90. He was buried in Rome, forever leaving in the memory of his achievements and services to Italian cinema. /