Mauro Bolognini

Mauro Bolognini 28 June 1922 14 May 2001 was an Italian film and stage director Bolognini began directing his own feature films in the mid1950s and received his first international success with Wild Love Gli innamorati His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include Young Husbands Giovani mariti The Big Night La notte brava From a Roman Balcony La giornata balorda and the Marcello MastroianniClaudia Cardinale starrer Il bellAntonio all written by Pier Paolo Pasolini Parting professionally with Pasolini in 1961 Bolognini directed two love stories starring Claudia Cardinale The Lovemakers La viaccia and Careless Senilità and the comingofage films Agostino and Corruption La corruzione before turning his talents to a series of international anthology films including The Dolls Le bambole Three Faces of a Woman I tre volti The Queens Le fate and The Witches Le streghe Bolognini returned to features in 1966 with Madamigella di Maupin Mademoiselle de Maupin featuring Catherine Spaak and Robert Hossein His films of the 1970s include the period dramas Metello and Bubù both starring Massimo Ranieri The Murri Affair Fatti di gente perbene starring Giancarlo Giannini and Catherine Deneuve and The Inheritance Leredità Ferramonti with Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda In 1981 Bolognini filmed The Lady of the Camellias La storia vera della signora delle camelie inspired by the Alexandre Dumas fils novel and play Throughout the decade he continued directing feature films as well as the television miniseries The Charterhouse of Parma and A Time of Indifference His final feature was the softcore erotic drama Husband and Lovers La villa del venerdì starring Julian Sands and Joanna Pacula released in 1991