Michelangelo Antonioni (born
September 29,
1912 in
Ferrara,
Italy) is an
Italian film director,
writer and
painter.
He graduated in economics at Bologna University, he reached Rome in 1940 where he attended specifical studies at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Cinecitta[?].
Here he met some of the artists with whom he will cooperate in the next years; among them Roberto Rossellini.
He described himself as a Marxist intellectual, but some authors advance some doubts about his effective adherence to that ideology.
Filmography:
- Gente del Po[?] ( People of the Po[?], 1943)
- Nettezza urbana[?] ( Dustmen[?], 1948)
- Oltre L'oblio[?] (1948)
- Roma-Montevideo[?] (1948)
- L'Amorosa menzogna[?] (1949)
- Sette cani e un vestito[?] (1949)
- Bomarzo[?] (1949)
- Ragazze in Bianco[?] (1949)
- Superstizione[?] (1949)
- La villa dei mostri[?] ( The House of Monsters[?], 1950)
- Cronaca di un amore[?] ( Chronicle of a Love[?], 1950)
- La Funivia del Faloria[?] (1950)
- I vinti[?] ( The Vanquished[?], 1952)
- La signora senza camelie[?] ( Camille Without Camellias[?], 1953)
- Tentato Suicido[?] ( When Love Fails[?]) - episode in Amore in Citta (Love in the City, 1953)
- Le amiche[?] ( The Girl Friends[?], 1955)
- Il grido[?] ( The Cry[?], 1957)
- L'avventura[?] ( The Adventure[?], 1960)
- La notte[?] ( The Night[?], 1961)
- L'eclisse[?] ( The Eclipse[?], 1962)
- Il deserto rosso[?] ( Red Desert[?], 1964)
- Prefazione - episode in I tre volti[?] ( The Three Faces of a Woman[?], 1965)
- Blow-Up[?] (1966)
- Zabriskie Point (1970)
- Chung Kuo[?] (1972)
- Professione Reporter[?] ( The Passenger[?], 1975)
- Il Mistero di Oberwald[?] ( The Mystery of Oberwald[?], 1980)
- Identificazione di una donna[?] ( Identification of a Woman[?], 1982)
- Volcanoes and Carnival[?] (1992)
- Beyond the Clouds[?] ( Par Dela Les Nuages[?], 1995)