Goffredo Alessandrini


About

Birth Place
Cairo, Egypt
Born
September 09, 1904
Died
May 16, 1978

Biography

Former assistant to Alessandro Blasetti who graduated to directing commercially successful films during the Mussolini years. Alessandrini also helmed a number of award-winning fascist propaganda films. His feature work slowed during the 1940s and petered out in the 50s, when he was involved in a supervisory capacity on several films directed (or completed) by others. Some of Alessandrini...

Family & Companions

Anna Magnani
Wife
Actor. Married in 1936; divorced in 1940.

Biography

Former assistant to Alessandro Blasetti who graduated to directing commercially successful films during the Mussolini years. Alessandrini also helmed a number of award-winning fascist propaganda films. His feature work slowed during the 1940s and petered out in the 50s, when he was involved in a supervisory capacity on several films directed (or completed) by others. Some of Alessandrini's better films are noteworthy for their extreme realism, but his output is on the whole undistinguished.

Life Events

Companions

Anna Magnani
Wife
Actor. Married in 1936; divorced in 1940.

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