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Aldo Vergano

Rome 27 August 1891 – 21 September 1957

The director and screenwriter Aldo Vergano, was one of the most prolific screenwriters and distinguished himself for his career in directing the attention posed to the historical and social events of the time. He founded in 1927, with Alessandro Blasetti, the magazine Cinema, which continued publication until 1931, as it was accused of going against the fascist regime. He began to collaborate in film, and always with Blasetti, realized in 1929, his first opera sun, where the latter begins in directing. In the thirties, he worked regularly as a scriptwriter and subjectionist for some white-phone film directors. He made his directorial debut in 1938, with the film Pietro Micca, and in 1943 he directed those of the Mountain, in collaboration with Blasetti. After the war, he made the film The Sun Rises again, commissioned and produced by the ANPI (National Association of Partisans of Italy), one of the pillars of Neorealism, which analyzed the partisan struggle and generally the resistance.

Filmography

1929/ Sun, by Alessandro Blasetti

1929/ Vela furled, by Anton Giulio Bragaglia

1931/ The man with the Claw, by Nunzio Malasomma

1931/ The Scala, by Gennaro Righelli

1931/ Patatrac, by Gennaro Righelli

1932/ The telephone operator, by Nunzio Malasomma

1932/ The Blue Army, by Gennaro Righelli

1932/ I 'm not jealous of Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

1932/ The singer of the Opera, (uncredited), by Nunzio Malasomma

1932/ Two Happy hearts, by Baldassarre Negroni

1933/ The president of Ba. Cre. Mi., by Gennaro Righelli

1933/ Seven days a hundred lire, by Nunzio Malasomma

1935/ Don Bosco, by Goffredo Alessandrini

1936/ The Adam Tree, by Mario Bonnard

1936/ Cavalry, by Goffredo Alessandrini

1936/ Love, by Anton Giulio Bragaglia

1937/ Men are not ungrateful, by Guido Brignone

1937/ It's back Carnival, by Raphael Matarazzo

1937/ Marcella, by Guido Brignone

1938/ Pietro Micca, also director, 1938/

1938/ The Earl of Brechard, by Mario Bonnard

1938/ For Lonely Men, by Guido Brignone

1938/ It was I, by Raphael Matarazzo

1939/ The  night of the mockery, by Carlo Campogalliani

1939/ Come back, dear idea !, by Guido Brignone

1940/ Too late I met you, by Emanuele Caracciolo

1940/ The children of the Night, also directed by Benito Perojo

1940/ The Lost Woman, by Domenico Gambino

1940/ The Knights of Kruja, by Carlo Campogalliani 

1940/ St. John took off, of Hamlet Palermi and Giorgio Bianchi

1942/ Perdition, by Carlo Campogalliani

1943/ Those of the mountain, also directing

1946/ The sun Still rises, also directed

1947/ lost in the Dark, by Camillo Mastrocinque

1947/ Where is Zazà?, by Giorgio Simonelli

1949/ The Outlaws, also directed

1950/ Czarci Pusty, also directed by Tadeusz Kanski

1951/ Santa Lucia Luntana..., also directed

1951/ The great renunciation, also directed

Director

1938/ Pietro Micca

1940/ The children of the Night

1943/ Those of the mountain

1946/ The sun rises again

1949/ The Outlaws

1950/ Czarci pusty

1951/ Santa Lucia Luntana...

1951/ The Great Surrender

1952/ Red Love – Marianna Sirca

1954/ Fate on the steering wheel