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Franco Rossi

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Geboren
28. April 1919 · Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Gestorben
5. Juni 2000

Biografie

Franco Rossi (19 April 1919, Florence – 5 June 2000, Rome) was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six-hour Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985. Rossi was born in Florence, Italy. He studied law and then began to work on theatre. He was assistant director of Mario Camerini, Luis Trenker, Renato Castellani, Aldo Vergano. Rossi made his debut as a director with the crime thriller I Falsari. He went on to have his first success with Il seduttore, starring by Alberto Sordi, and among Rossi's other films were The Woman in the Painting (Amici per la pelle, 1955), Odissea Nuda (1961), "Smog" (1962), Three Nights of Love (1964), an episode of Le bambole (1965), and Porgi l'altra guancia with Bud Spencer in (1974). Rossi was one of the first established Italian film directors also doing work for television, being one of the three directors for the 1968 mini-series L'Odissea. His largest TV undertaking was directing the international co-production of the six-hour mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985.

Bekannt aus

Poster zu Zwei Missionare
Zwei Missionare
Film · 1974 · ★ 6,5
Poster zu Einmal zu wenig, einmal zu viel
Einmal zu wenig, einmal zu viel
Film · 1965 · ★ 7,0
Poster zu Hexen von heute
Hexen von heute
Film · 1967 · ★ 6,0
Poster zu Capriccio all'italiana
Capriccio all'italiana
Film · 1968 · ★ 6,1
Poster zu Die Odyssee
Die Odyssee
Film · 1969 · ★ 7,6
Poster zu Die Odyssee
Die Odyssee
Serie · 1968 · ★ 8,4
Poster zu Die Puppen
Die Puppen
Film · 1965 · ★ 5,3
Poster zu Il seduttore
Il seduttore
Film · 1954 · ★ 6,5
Poster zu Alta infedeltà
Alta infedeltà
Film · 1964 · ★ 5,3
Poster zu Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
Film · 1987 · ★ 6,8
Poster zu Controsesso
Controsesso
Film · 1964 · ★ 6,5
Poster zu Quo Vadis?
Quo Vadis?
Serie · 1985 · ★ 6,0

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