Francesco Pasinetti
Francesco Pasinetti (1911–1949) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known largely for his documentaries. He also directed the 1934 realist feature film The Canal of the Angels set in Venice. His brother was the writer Pier Maria Pasinetti.
Francesco Pasinetti
SCENARIO, luglio 1934 · Public domain
- Name
- Francesco Pasinetti
- Born
- 1 June 1911
- Birthplace
- Venice, Veneto Italy
- Died
- 2 April 1949
- Place of death
- Rome, Lazio Italy
- Occupation
- Director
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Education
- University of Padua
- Teachers
- Giuseppe Fiocco
- Languages
- Italian
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Biography
Biography
A native of Venice, Pasinetti attempted in the final days of the Second World War to persuade the Allies to support making Venice the capital of the post-war Italian film industry (Venice had emerged as the centre of filmmaking in the Fascist Italian Social Republic). However, this attempt failed and production largely returned to the capital in Rome.
La redazione di Cinema - prima serie - anno 1939: Francesco Pasinetti, Domenico Meccoli, + Fausto Montesanti + Rudolf Arnheim
CINEMA n. 47 - 1950
Nasce una famiglia - documentario di Francesco Pasinetti - 1943
CINEMA n. 13 - 1949
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Francesco Pasinetti • Born — 1 June 1911 • Birthplace — Venice, Veneto Italy • Died — 2 April 1949 • Place of death — Rome, Lazio Italy • Occupation — Director • Years Active — 1934–1949 (film)
Director
Director
• The Canal of the Angels (1934)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1949
Francesco Pasinetti died at Rome.
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Venice.
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Rome.
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Screenwriter
• The Ambassador (1936) • The Two Misanthropists (1937) • The Last Enemy (1938) • The Sinner (1940) • Street of the Five Moons (1942) • The Innkeeper (1944)
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- “Francesco Pasinetti”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Francesco Pasinetti (1911–49): Essays on documentary filmmaking, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 2024
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2024
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- 1.Brunetta p.100
- 2.Brunetta p.107
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.
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