Role Screenwriter Language Italian Children Umberto Mattone | Genre Fiction, screenwriting Books The Camp Followers Name Ugo Pirro | |
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Died January 18, 2008, Rome, Italy Awards Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, David di Donatello for Best Screenplay Movies Investigation of a Citizen Above Su, The Working Class Go, We Still Kill the Old Way, The Garden of the Finzi, Mafia Similar People Elio Petri, Luigi Kuveiller, Salvo Randone, Carlo Lizzani, Gian Maria Volonte | ||
Occupation Screenwriter, novelist |
UGO PIRRO AL TUSCIAMFILM FEST
Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist.
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Born Ugo Mattone in Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani (Achtung! Banditi!, 1951, and Il gobbo, 1960).
His screenplays of the 1970s include films Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto and Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film. Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being Le soldatesse (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and Celluloide, adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996.
Pirro died in Rome in 2008.
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