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Pasquale Festa Campanile
Melfi, 28 July 1927 – Rome 25 February 1986
Son of Raffaele Festa Campanile and Olga Pappadà. At nine years old he moved with his family to Rome, where he started working as a journalist and literary critic. In 1947 became editor of the magazine The Literary Fair, in 1948 he received the The Caravella Literary Award and in 1951 the Marzotto Prize for journalism.
He began working as a screenwriter in Faddija – the law of vengeance by Roberto Montero. His directorial debut is A sentimental attempt, later also directs The Choir, The Constancy of Reason .
In 1973 produces Rugantino, film adaptation of the musical comedy Garinei and Giovannini.
In 1976 he directed The soldier of Fortune, with Bud Spencer and Enzo Cannavale, in 1977 hitch-hike, starring Franco Nero. In the 1980s, is dedicated to the subject of transsexuality in nobody's perfect, with Renato Pozzetto and Ornella Muti, so delightful you die, with Enrico Montesano as a transvestite. Pasquale Festa Campanile dies at the age of 58 years, was married to the painter Anna Savior, but he was also romantically linked to Catherine Spaak, Lilli Carati, remarried to Rosalba Mah.
Filmography-writer/director
1963/ A sentimental attempt, co-directed by Massimo Franciosa
1964/ White voices, co-directed by Massimo Franciosa
1964/ The Constancy of Reason
1965/ A maiden for a Prince
1966/ Italian adultery
1967/ The chastity belt
1967/ Her husband is mine and kill him anytime I want
1967/ The girl and the General
1968/ The matriarch
1969/ Check to the Queen
1969/ Where are you all naked?
1970/ When women had tails
1970/ With what love, with love
1971/ The male blackbird
1972/ The calandria
1972/ Droit de seigneur
1973/ The emigrant
1973/ Rugantino
1974/ The spanking
1975/ It pays to do love well
1976/ Tell me who does everything for me
1976/ The soldier of Fortune
1977/ Hitch-hike
1978/ How to lose a wife and find a lover
1979/ Saturday, Sunday and Friday, episode Sunday
1979/ The body of the girl
1979/ Gegè Bellavita
1980/ The return of Casanova
1980/ The robber
1980/ Give us your hand
1981/ Nobody's perfect
1981/ Thick as thieves
1981/ The dip
1982/ Bingo Bongo
1982/ The Girl of Trieste
1982/ So delightful you die
1982/ Holy cow
1983/ A rich man, poor man
1983/ On having Tourette
1984/ Respectable outrage
Screenwriter
1949/ Faddija – the law of vengeance, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero
1955/ Lovers, directed by Mauro Bolognini
1957/ Terror in the city, directed by Anton Giulio Majano
1957/ The woman who came from the sea, by Francesco De Robertis
1957/ The Sabella Woman, Dino Risi
1957/ Beautiful but poor, Dino Risi
1957/ The Mama's boy, directed by Mauro Morassi
1957/ Holidays in Ischia, by Mario Camerini
1958/ Young husbands, directed by Mauro Bolognini
1958/ Thief him, thief her, directed by Luigi Zampa
1958/ Toto and Marcellin, directed by Antoni Musu
1958/ Everyone's in love, directed by Giuseppe Orlandini
1958/ Venice, the moon and you, Dino Risi
1959/ Ferdinand I, King of Naples, directed by Giani Franciolini
1959/ The magistrate, directed by Luigi Zampa
1959/ The one hundred kilometers, directed by Giulio Petroni
1959/ Poor millionaires, by Dino Risi
1960/ Rocco and his brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti
1960/ The Colonel's three et cetera, by Claude Boissol
1961/ The killer, directed by Elio Petri
1961/ The Lovemakers (film), directed by Mauro Bolognini
1962/ The beauty of Hippolyta , directed by Giancarlo Zagni
1962/ The four days of Naples, directed by Nanni Loy
1962/ The beauty of Hippolyta, directed by Franco Rossi
1963/ The Leopard, by Luchino Visconti (1963/
1963/ In Italy is called love, directed by Virgilio Sabel
1963/ No Sun nor Moon, directed by Luciano Ricci
1963/ A modern history – the Queen Bee, directed by Marco Ferreri
Novels
1957/ Grandmother Sabella
1975/ It pays to do love well
1977/ The Thief
1980/ Sin
1982/ The Girl of Trieste
1984/ For love, just for love
1985/ The witch in love
1986/ Merry Christmas, happy new year