Luciano Emmer

Luciano Emmer 19 January 1918 16 September 2009 was an Italian film director He was born in Milan but most of his childhood lived in Venice He started as filmmaker at filming Giottos frescoes in Padua in 1938 Screenwriter Sergio Amidei found the finance for Emmer to make a feature about Romans spending a Sunday in August on the beach at Ostia He won a Golden Globe in 1951 for Pictura An Adventure in Art He has directed more documentaries than fiction pictures most notably Domenica dagosto and the romancecomedydrama Three Girls from Rome Luciano Emmer started his career as a filmmaker working with Enrico Gras He founded the production company Dolomiti Film and directed several documentaries In 1949 Emmer produced his first feature film Dimanche dAugust 1950 with Marcello Mastroianni Also with Mastroianni the following year he made Paris is always Paris 1951 In the 1950s Luciano Emmer made advertising films meanwhile he continued with his documentary work He was labeled as an example of the Italian pink neorealism In 1956 Emmer directed with Robert Enrico To Each His Own Paradise After The Girl in the Window 1961 a social drama with Marina Vlady and Lino Ventura he turned to television He made his return to the cinema with Enough I make a movie