Luciano Emmer

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1918-01-19

Deathday 2009-09-16 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Milan, Italy

Luciano Emmer

Biography

Luciano Emmer (19 January 1918 – 16 September 2009) was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan, but most of his childhood lived in Venice. He started as filmmaker at filming Giotto's frescoes in Padua in 1938. Screenwriter Sergio Amidei, found the finance for Emmer to make a feature about Romans spending a Sunday in August on the beach at Ostia. He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura: An Adventure in Art. He has directed more documentaries than fiction pictures, most notably Domenica d'agosto and the romance-comedy-drama Three Girls from Rome. Luciano Emmer started his career as a filmmaker working with Enrico Gras. He founded the production company Dolomiti Film and directed several documentaries. In 1949, Emmer produced his first feature film Dimanche d'August (1950) with Marcello Mastroianni. Also with Mastroianni, the following year he made Paris is always Paris (1951). In the 1950s, Luciano Emmer made advertising films meanwhile he continued with his documentary work. He was labeled as an example of the Italian pink neorealism. In 1956, Emmer directed with Robert Enrico To Each His Own Paradise. After The Girl in the Window (1961), a social drama with Marina Vlady and Lino Ventura, he turned to television. He made his return to the cinema with Enough! I make a movie.

Known For

Director

2009
2008
2008
2003
3 Women

as Director

2001
Nostalgie

as Director

2000
Incontrare Picasso

as Director

1997
Bella di notte

as Director

1977
1976
1971
1969
Giotto

as Director

1969
Geminus

as Director

1967
La sublime fatica

as Director

1965
La distrazione

as Director

1961
Girl in the Window

as Director

1956
The Bigamist

as Director

1956
Earthly Paradise

as Director

1954
Camilla

as Director

1954
Picasso

as Director

1954
High School

as Director

1952
1952
Leonardo da Vinci

as Director

1951
Pictura

as Director

1951
1950
Sunday in August

as Director

1950
Goya

as Director

1949
1948
1948
1948
1948
1947
Bianchi pascoli

as Director

1942
1942
Destino d'amore

as Director

1942
Guerrieri

as Director

1941
1941
La sua terra

as Director

Writer

2003
3 Women

as Writer

1961
Girl in the Window

as Screenplay

1954
Camilla

as Story

1954
Camilla

as Screenplay

1954
High School

as Screenplay

1954
Picasso

as Writer

1952
1951
Paris Is Always Paris

as Screenplay

1951
1950
Sunday in August

as Screenplay

1950
Goya

as Writer

1942

Producer

2008

Actor

2023
The Last Days of Humanity

as Self (archive footage)