Sergio Amidei

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Sergei Amidei

Birth Place

Trieste, IT

Born

October 30, 1904

Died

April 14, 1981

Biography

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A significant contributor to the Italian neorealist movement, thanks to his work on films by Vittorio De Sica ("Shoeshine" 1946), Renato Castellani ("Under the Sun of Rome" 1949) and, most notably, Roberto Rossellini. Of his seven collaborations with Rossellini, the neorealist classics "Paisan" (1946) and "Open City" (1946), and the later "General Della Rovere" (1959), stand out....

Filmography

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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

La Nuit de Varennes (1982)

The Witness (1978)

An Average Man (1977)

Anastasia mio fratello ovvero il presunto capo dell'aninima assassini (1973)

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Fear (1954) -- (Movie Clip) She Must Be Punished

Fear (1954) -- (Movie Clip) And The Animal Dies?

Biography

A significant contributor to the Italian neorealist movement, thanks to his work on films by Vittorio De Sica ("Shoeshine" 1946), Renato Castellani ("Under the Sun of Rome" 1949) and, most notably, Roberto Rossellini. Of his seven collaborations with Rossellini, the neorealist classics "Paisan" (1946) and "Open City" (1946), and the later "General Della Rovere" (1959), stand out.

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

La Nuit de Varennes (1982)

The Witness (1978)

An Average Man (1977)

Anastasia mio fratello ovvero il presunto capo dell'aninima assassini (1973)

La Piu Bella Serata Della Mia Vita (1972)

Detenuto in Attesa di Giudizio (1971)

Singapore, Singapore (1969)

Italian vers Screenplay

Girl Game (1968)

A Very Handy Man (1966)

Love on the Riviera (1964)

Viva l'Italia (1960)

Escape by Night (1960)

Ghosts in Rome (1960)

General Della Rovere (1959)

Daughters of Destiny (1954)

The Machine That Kills Bad People (1952)

Anni Difficili (1947)

Open City (1946)

Open City (1946)

Shoeshine (1946)

Open City (1946)

Writer (Short)

Producer (Short)

Life Events

1924

Entered film industry

1939

Screenwriting debut with "La Notte delle Beffe"

Videos

Fear (1954) -- (Movie Clip) She Must Be Punished At the country home of well-to-do Albert (Mathias Wieman) and guilt-stricken, unfaithful Irene (Ingrid Bergman), their daughter (Elisabeth Wischert) is confronted over the theft of the rifle given to her brother (Gabriele Seitz), Bergman's husband Roberto Rossellini directing, in Fear, 1954.

Fear (1954) -- (Movie Clip) And The Animal Dies? Unfaithful Irene (Ingrid Bergman) arrives at the German pharmaceutical plant where she and her husband Albert (Mathias Wieman) are big shots, conducting a weird experiment when the girlfriend of her lover (Renate Mannhardt) shows up making demands, in Roberto Rossellini's Fear, 1954.

Fear (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Why Should I Be Reasonable? The thoughts of Irene (Ingrid Bergman, wife of the director), wife of a German industrial scientist, making her way through an unnamed city to meet with her lover (Kurt Kreuger) open the last film she made with Roberto Rosselini, the quasi-thriller German-Italian co-production Fear, 1954.

Open City (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He's Doesn't Always Sleep Here Opening scenes from director Roberto Rossellini, shot on location in Rome, Italian resistance leader Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero) hiding from German troops, from Open City, 1946.

Open City (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Well Done, Comrades! Roman resistance leader Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), joined by Francesco (Francesco Grandfacquet) and his girlfriend Pina (Anna Magnani), when her son (Vito Annicchiraico) and his pals stage a raid, in Roberto Rossellini's Open City, 1946.

Open City (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Wait For Your Pastries In Heaven Citizens of occupied Rome raiding the bakery, the first scene for Anna Magnani (as "Pina"), who then meets resistance leader Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), early in Roberto Rosssellini's Open City, 1946.

Open City (1946) -- (Movie Clip) There's Not Much To Read Newly recruited to help resistance fighters, priest Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi) slightly offended by lewd statues, then picking up illicit funds, in Roberto Rossellini's Open City, 1946.

Open City (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You Have Pretty Eyes Spoiler, but the signature scene from director Roberto Rossellini, Pina (Anna Magnani) resists when the Germans arrest boyfriend Francesco (Francesco Grandfacquet), later rescued by Roman partisans, from Open City, 1946.

Paisan (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Italian Like Us? From the first episode, American soldiers (Robert Von Loon, Benjamin Emanuel, Raymond Campbell) arrive in Sicily, meeting Carmela (Carmela Sazio) et al, in Roberto Rossellini's Paisan 1946.

Paisan (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Death To The Moors! The beginning of the second episode, in Naples, the boy Pasquale (known only as "Alfonsino") meets the inebriated American M-P Joe (Dots M. Johnson), in Roberto Rossellini's Paisan, 1946.

Paisan (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Everything Has Gone Badly Today From the fourth episode “Firenze” (Florence), Roberto Rossellini follows American nurse Harriet (White), hoping to reach her lover, now known as the resistance leader “Lupo,” and local Massimo (Renzo Avanzo), seeking his family, as partisans fight the retreating Germans, in Paisan, 1946.

Machine That Kills Bad People, The -- (Movie Clip) This Is A Godsend! Celestino (Gennaro Pisano), now convinced that his camera kills, rushes to tell the priest (Giacomo Furia) who is more interested in the millions provided to the town council, as a result of the camera's earlier mischief, in Roberto Rossellini's The Machine That Kills Bad People, 1952.

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