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