Cecilia Mangini

Cecilia Mangini (31 July 1927 – 21 January 2021) was an Italian film director, considered the first female documentary filmmaker in Italy.[1][2][3]

Cecilia Mangini in 2020

In 1958, her first documentary was released, titled Ignoti alla Città (Unknown to the City). Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the film focused on adolescents in Rome's suburbs after World War II.[1]

Mangini died on 21 January 2021 in Rome.[4]

Personal life

Born in 1927 in Mola di Bari, Italy, Mangini moved with her family to Florence at age six, when her father's leather business failed.[5] She then moved to Rome in 1952 and worked in a film club federation, where she met and eventually married Lino Del Fra, with whom she collaborated on several film projects.[1]

Filmography

Director

  • Ignoti alla città (1958)
  • Maria e i giorni (1959)
  • Firenze di Pratolini (1959)[6]
  • La canta delle marane (1960)
  • Stendalì - Suonano ancora, (1960)
  • La passione del grano, co-directed with Lino Del Fra (1960)
  • Fata Morgana, co-directed with Lino del Fra (1961)
  • All'armi, siam fascisti!, co-directed with Lino del Fra and Lino Micciché (1962)[7]
  • La statua di Stalin, co-directed with Lino del Fra (1963)[8]
  • Divino amore (1963)
  • Trieste del mio cuore (1964)
  • Pugili a Brugherio (1965)
  • Felice Natale (1965)
  • Essere donne (1965)
  • Brindisi '65 (1966)[9]
  • Tommaso (1967)
  • Domani vincerò (1969)
  • La briglia sul collo (1974)
  • In viaggio con Cecilia, co-directed with Mariangela Barbanente (2013)[9]
  • Due scatole dimenticate – un viaggio in Vietnam, co-directed with Paolo Pisanelli (2020)[10]

Screenwriter

  • Firenze di Pratolini (1959)
  • Stendalì - Suonano ancora (1960)
  • All'armi, siam fascisti!, directed by Lino Del Fra, Cecilia Mangini and Lino Micciché (1962)
  • La torta in cielo, directed by Lino Del Fra (1970)
  • Black Holiday, directed by Marco Leto (1973)[11]
  • Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison, directed by Lino Del Fra (1977)[12]
  • Klon, directed by Lino Del Fra (1994)
  • Regina Coeli, directed by Nico D'Alessandria (2000)
  • In viaggio con Cecilia, directed by Mariangela Barbanente and Cecilia Mangini (2013)

References
  1. Povoledo, Elisabetta (24 January 2020). "A Legendary Documentary Maker Closes 'an Open Wound'". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. "Cécilia Mangini". Vienna International Film Festival. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. "Addio a Cecilia Mangini, la prima documentarista d'Italia". La Repubblica (in Italian). 22 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  4. "È morta Cecilia Mangini, fu la prima donna documentarista italiana. Pioniera del cinema del reale, Rai Storia la dedica una serata". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 22 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  5. Vivarelli, Nick. "Cecilia Mangini, Italian Documentary Cinema Pioneer, Dies at 93". Variety. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  6. "Firenze di Pratolini". Docucity (in Italian). Archived from the original on 10 April 2014.
  7. Casadio 1997, p. 99.
  8. Dopo i tagli operati dalla produzione, gli autori disconosceranno l'opera, che verrà distribuita con il titolo Processo a Stalin
  9. Mereghetti, Paolo (22 January 2021). "È morta Cecilia Mangini, pioniera del cinema documentario in Italia". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  10. "Two Forgotten Boxes - A trip to Vietnam (Due scatole dimenticate - Un viaggio in vietnam)". Filmitalia.
  11. Casadio 1997, p. 122.
  12. Casadio 1997, p. 137.

Sources

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.