Luigi Di Gianni

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Luigi Di Gianni (born in Naples on October 20, 1926 and died in Rome on May 10, 2019) is an Italian screenwriter and director. Luigi Di Gianni believes in the power of cinema. It is this spirit, tragic and rogue, that has always possessed him. And that makes his films an experience difficult to forget in any hurry. It is an insinuating spirit, which ends up delighting and even tormenting the spectator, at first alien to her. It has multiform and unpredictable tentacles, which evade the safety of easy classification. Every time one tries to venture a definition, one has the suspicion of falling into reductionism, as if something is always missing. Starting with an inevitable question, however tedious it may seem: can we be content to speak, in his case, about documentary cinema? If asked, Di Gianni would certainly answer with a peremptory no, and for good reason. His is a decidedly authorial cinema. It is crossed by cultural and intellectual tensions that embrace literature, music, philosophy and great cinema. It is sustained by a sometimes unsatisfied desire to control rhythms, atmospheres, sounds, lights, movements… Above all, it is driven by the conviction that cinema is an expressive instrument that offers us a vision (turned black) of man and the world. And yet it is clear that few filmmakers have been able to document in such depth some of the most surprising, heartbreaking and disturbing aspects of our society, especially those rooted in the atavistic miseries of the South, as if tracing the deep folds of an Italian “anti-miracle.” Let’s take a guess. Di Gianni brings to light what elsewhere we tend to sweep under the carpet of rationality and respectability, but which, inexorably, is there underneath, applying pressure: his cinema is the documentation of social repression. Let’s follow with the thread of apparent contradictions. Di Gianni is an apolitical director, he does not believe in progress (he prefers the infinite labyrinth), he tends to be on the side of history. But, at the same time, one senses in his films a cry of rebellion, a love for the last; in short, an ethical and civil tension that is often lacking in those directors whose primary aim is to change the world. Once again: the characters in his films seem inexorably shrouded in cloaks of tragedy, and yet we are surprised, at certain moments, by the mockery of an unexpectedly grotesque twist. Armed with civic presumption, we are tempted to be indignant at manifestations that seem to plunge into the abysses of ignorance and backwardness, but at the same time, it is difficult to find filmmakers who place themselves before the world they choose to represent with more respect, avoiding the temptation to judge. And do we want to call his cinema “ethnographic”? Of course, he is one of its undisputed masters. It’s a pity that he is the first to strongly deny it, claiming instead that his films are about something else. It is not surprising that Di Gianni’s cinema is a magnificently isolated object, not only in Italy (this is unmistakably demonstrated by his only feature film, Il tempo dell’inizio, a kind of slow-motion nightmare, alien and elusive). Perhaps this is also one of the reasons for its charm, unalterable with the passage of time. The revival of his films seems to us, quite simply, necessary.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1926-10-20
  • event Death Date 2019-05-10
  • school Known for: Directing
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  • info Birth Place Napoli, Italy
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1968-01-01

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Morte di Padre Pio

1971-01-01

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Il monastero di Rila

1962-01-01

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1969-12-31

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1955-08-01

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La frattura

1956-09-01

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Il gallo canta a mezzanotte

1958-02-01

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L' ultima faccia di Medusa

1958-10-01

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Il cancelliere Krehler

1972-03-03

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Altair

1956-02-09

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Carnevale a Ronciglione

1963-01-01

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Il Cinegiornale della pace

1963-02-01

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Lotta contro i mostri

1963-03-01

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L' uomo e la maschera

1963-11-01

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Il sogno

1966-01-01

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Il sogno

1966-01-01

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I misteri di Roma

1963-09-05

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Essere capo

1967-09-01

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Chanukkà (Festa delle luci)

1968-09-01

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1968-10-01

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1968-11-01

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Il ricevimento

1968-11-01

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1978-05-01

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1987-09-01

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1954-09-01

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L'arresto

1954-09-01

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1959-09-01

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Pericolo a Valsinni

1959-09-01

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La punidura

1959-10-01

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1960-09-01

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Antiche città bulgare

1962-09-01

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1962-10-01

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1967-01-01

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1968-08-31

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2006-01-01

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2005-01-01

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2009-02-04

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1967-05-03

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Vajont (Natale 1963)

1964-05-15

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1964-02-04

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Tempo di raccolta

1966-02-04

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2012-02-04

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2013-02-04

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1965-04-15

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1975-01-01

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Concerto in miniatura

1966-01-01

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Dal Foro Romano a Villa Medici

1958-01-01

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Magia Lucana

1958-01-01

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The Time of the Beginning

1974-10-15

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The Time of the Beginning

1974-10-15

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The Time of the Beginning

1974-10-15

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Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)

1959-07-01

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Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)

1959-07-01

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Landslide in Lucania

1960-01-01

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Landslide in Lucania

1960-01-01

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Grazia e numeri

1961-11-01

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Grazia e numeri

1961-11-01

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L'Annunziata

1961-10-01

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L'Annunziata

1961-10-01

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Il male di San Donato

1965-01-01

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La Madonna di Pierno

1965-01-01

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L'attaccatura

1971-01-01

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Dottori aeropittore futurista

1971-01-01

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Incubo

1966-09-01

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Grazia e morte

1971-03-06

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La Madonna del Pollino

1971-03-12

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Donne di Bagnara

1959-03-08

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Ragazze dell’avanspettacolo

1961-10-05

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Montevergine

1971-07-08

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I fujenti

1966-07-07

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Il lagno

1966-01-12

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The Power of the Spirits

1968-01-09

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2014-08-16

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La possessione

1971-01-09

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Viaggio in Lucania

1965-01-09

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