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		Germi, Pietro (1914-1974), Italian film director, writer, and actor, noted both for his early Neo-Realist films and for his later social comedies.
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	PIETRO GERMI
		Pietro Germi è uno dei nostri grandi; così avrebbe scritto Carlo Emilio Gadda, con il suo stile inconfondibile, per descrivere l’uomo e l’artista Germi.
		Pietro Germi: il carattere difficile, ombroso, chiuso, nervoso (un suo tic ispirò Mastroianni per il ruolo del barone Fefé Cefalù di Divorzio all’italiana, la cui sceneggiatura ricordiamolo firmata assieme a Ennio De Concini e Alfredo Giannetti, vinse l’Oscar; il film, invece, fu premiato a Cannes), lo rese antipatico a molti.
		Pietro Germi fu un grande lavoratore, sul set era professionista fino all’estremo, produsse un cinema popolare che aiutasse l’uomo a migliorarsi, ad affrancarsi, a misurare la densità della vita.
	www.centraldocinema.it /Recensioni/Ott04/pietro_germi_di_beppe_mora.htm (328 words)

	Off-Screen [ Primo Piano > omaggio a Pietro Germi
		Pietro Germi fu un grande lavoratore, sul set professionista fino all’estremo, che produsse cinema popolare con l'obiettivo di aiutare l’uomo a migliorarsi, ad affrancarsi, a misurare la densità della vita.
		Germi cercava un ritorno alla vita semplice dei bei tempi: lo si vede in film come Serafino (1968), apoteosi campagnola che si fonda soprattutto sulle doti di simpatia umana del protagonista Adriano Celentano.
		Periodo in cui Germi, regista tra i più personali e impegnati del cinema italiano ed europeo, colse le contraddizioni della società e dell'uomo con vigorosa spontaneità e con uno stile che trovava la sua forza espressiva e morale proprio in una certa ingenua e rude schiettezza.
	www.offscreen.it /primo/pietrogermi.htm (498 words)

	Notes on Sedotta e Abbandonata
		Germi frequently employs a dramatic zoom lens to underscore the oppressive peer pressure of Sicilian morality upon Agnese and her family, while a wide-angle lens distorts horribly the faces of these jeering people.
		Born in Genoa in 1914 and died in Rome in 1974, Pietro Germi briefly attended the Instituto Nautico before entering Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
		Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961) was a huge worldwide box-office hit which earned him an Oscar for "Best Screenplay" (in collaboration with Alfredo Giannetti and Ennio de Concini).
	home.rochester.rr.com /flanzafame/SedottaNotes.htm (597 words)

	The Films of the 37th New York Film Festival - Germi Retrospective
		Germi was always able to achieve magnificent results with films that embraced various genres, such as the thriller, comedy, melodrama and noir.
		Germi demonstrates a clear-eyed understanding of the complex socio-political forces that feed into the battle for control of the mountainous South, as well as his love of John Ford's masterful Western compositions and stylistic expressions of strong men at war in a beautiful but dangerous landscape.
		Germi stars as a railway worker who, like Job, endures more than a man should have to bear: he's forced his daughter into an unhappy marriage with disastrous results and he's so stressed by problems at work he takes to wine.
	www.filmlinc.com /archive/nyff/germiff.htm (1526 words)

	Pietro Germi - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Signore & signori, di Pietro Germi: Uno sguardo ridente sull'ipocrisia morbida
		Pietro Germi: Ritratto di un regista all'antica (Nuovi saggi)
		Tutto il cinema di Pietro Germi (I saggi/cinema)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /pietro_germi.htm (48 words)

	Pietro Germi
		However, when Peppino refuses to assent to the coerced marriage proposal under the hypocritical claims of being denied the right to marry a virgin wife, Don Vincenzo uses his tangential familial connections with a prominent judge to devise an elaborate (and ridiculously convoluted) plot to save the family's honor.
		Pietro Germi creates an incisive and wickedly irreverent satire on manners, duty, honor, and socially cultivated machismo in Seduced and Abandoned.
		It is through this caricatured exposition of fostered, obsolete elitism and amoral opportunism that the film serves as a relevant, contemporary portrait of Sicily's (then) socio-economic climate: an absurd and insidiously entrenched cultural dichotomy borne of hollow honor, perverted justice, and coercive, irretractable obligation.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/germi.html (226 words)

	Notes on Divorzio all'Italiana
		"Pietro Germi's vignettes of Sicilian social customs in Divorce, Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned (Shown in November 2003) dissect the senseless and unwritten codes of behavior governing relationships between the sexes in that male-dominated, insular culture.
		Germi also manages to recreate the oppressive atmosphere of the small Sicilian village in which the action is unfolded by a camera moving with masterful rapidity through endless groups of staring, leering townspeople.
		Germi is a master at running off a series of gags revolving around the central theme - an "Italian" divorce.
	home.rochester.rr.com /flanzafame/DivorzioNotes.htm (488 words)

	Pietro Germi. La frontiera e la legge
		Così, in termini palazzeschiani, Monicelli — cui Germi affiderà la regia del suo Amici miei (1975) — parla di questo passaggio dal tragico al comico: «si conferma la mia teoria che lo stadio espressivo drammatico corrisponde alla fase "infantile" della produzione di un artista, mentre è molto più matura l'espressione comico-umoristica».
		Ad affascinare è soprattutto l'autoritratto di Germi che viene fuori dal piccolo puzzle di scritti antologizzati da Caldiron in Germi secondo Germi e in Diario di bordo.
		Nel 1951 Germi sta per cominciare un nuovo film: «ormai è il sesto eppure, ogni volta, è lo stesso terrore, la sensazione angosciosa di non potercela fare».
	www.drammaturgia.it /recensioni/recensione2.php?id=2529 (549 words)

	village voice > film > Pietro Germi by Elliott Stein
		Germi's career falls somewhat neatly into two parts.
		Gruff and unsociable to the point of eccentricity, Germi was a conservative Social Democrat, unapologetically anti-Communist in an industry where his colleagues were largely left-wingers or committed Marxists.
		Germi's final movie, Alfredo, Alfredo (1972), a limp sex comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, was trimmed by 15 minutes for its American release at the star's insistence.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/9938,stein,8446,20.html (378 words)

	Pietro Germi - rFind.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.rfind.net /info/Pietro_Germi (279 words)

	Germi Pietro: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The son of a factory worker and a seamstress, Pietro Germi moved to Rome to enrol at the Experimental Cinematography Centre, where he first followed acting courses, then switched to film directing under Blasetti.
		Social satire and caustic moralism are perfectly combined in "The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore e signori)" (1965), which targets the respectability of provincial life in Italy's Veneto region, where unspeakable vices are hidden behind lip-service to Catholicism.
		An underestimated film director and a highly talented craftsman (Fellini referred to him as "the great carpenter", due to both his physical appearance and his professional approach), he was a narrator of impeccable stories.
	www.italica.rai.it /eng/cinema/biographies/germi.htm (375 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews DVD: Divorce Italian Style (Criterion Collection) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Germi's direction hustles the film along with bold, mobile camerawork, stream-of-consciousness lurches into fantasy and flashback, Fefè's feverish voiceover commentary, and a wonderfully propulsive music score by the late Carlo Rustichelli.
		Credit must go to director and co-writer Pietro Germi, whose previous films set in Sicily had largely been social realist dramas, and star Marcello Mastroianni, coming off his big breakthrough, La Dolce Vita (whose theatrical opening in the film's Sicilian village is one of Divorce's many great set pieces).
		Mastroianni's character, Ferdinando, is the epitome of the Sicilian male in all his shameful glory, and Germi shows time and again how the male culture dominates the island, with shots of men gathered in cafes and along the streets of the town, discussing not politics or sports, but women.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/dvd/B0007M222A/reviews (697 words)

	The History of Cinema. Pietro Germi: biography, filmography, reviews, links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pietro Germi esordì nel 1948 con un paio di film "noir" fra cui Gioventù perduta, che contrappone la sana abnegazione di un ex-partigiano alla corruzione di un giovane borghese, il primo poliziotto e fidanzato con una brava ragazza, il secondo, fratello di questa, ladro e assassino senza ideali e senza pietà.
		L'ideologia meridionalistica di Germi tocca il fondo con Il brigante di tacca del lupo (1952), melodramma patriottico in cui il brigante che capeggia la ribellione contro le truppe piemontesi si converte in punto di morte all'ideale unitario.
		Il secondo periodo di Germi ha inizio con La città si difende (1951), cronaca di una rapina allo stadio commessa da quattro disgraziati (un attore fallito, un operaio disoccupato, un ex-calciatore, un ragazzo povero) e del suo tragico epilogo, con i quattro che tentano separatamente ma invano la fuga.
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	A Journey Through Italian cinema
		Germi is mentioned seemingly only because his Divorzio all'italiana (1961) features a sequence in which La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1959) is being released in the cinemas of a very conservative Sicilian town.
		And Pietro Germi's best films, made before Divorzio all' italiana, were visually splendid, 'neo-realist films' influenced not only by Jules Dassin's film noir, but also by westerns and Soviet cinema (this is evident in the use of space in the very first film about the mafia, Germi's 1949, In nome della legge).
		Germi, for example, as a loner not influenced by Marxism, was considered a petty bourgeois of little consequence.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/26/journey_italian.html (1774 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Pietro Germi
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Pietro Germi
		Germi, Pietro (1914-1974), Italian motion-picture director, writer, and actor, noted both for his early cultural dramas and for his later social...
		This international film festival is held every May in Cannes, France.
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	Alfredo, Alfredo (1972) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pietro Germi is one of the unsung heroes of the film world.
		Marcello Mastroiani in Germi's hands created a miraculous character in "Divorce Italian Style" Saro Urzi was unbelievable in "Seduced and Abandoned".
		It's not the Germi I have come to know and love, I mean, not quite.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0068189 (414 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Divorce Italian Style: The Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But in the very Catholic Italy of 40 years ago, divorce is illegal, so Fefé concocts a plan — he will create a situation in which is wife will cuckold him and then kill her in a crime of passion, getting a light sentence because, after all, he was only defending his familial honor.
		Director Pietro Germi was mainly known for dramatic films when he made Divorzio all'italiana in 1962 — this comedy was a departure, and one that his producers were unsure he could pull off.
		Germi's gorgeous fl-and-white cinematography, plus his fearless ridiculing of the Italian upper class and of his culture's sexist hypocrisy, combine with a brilliant comic/serious tone to create a seminal fl comedy that influenced countless films that came after.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/d/divorceitalianstyle_cc.q.shtml (455 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Bembo Pietro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547), Italian scholar, born in Venice, and educated in Florence, Messina, and Padua.
		After six years at the court of Urbino, in...
		Italian, long eclipsed by the humanists' preoccupation with Greek and Latin, rose to a...
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	Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection DVD Marcello Mastroianni Pietro Germi DVD Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Pietro Germi: The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth" a film with interviews of the director by filmmaker and critic, Mario Sesti.
		Pietro Germi's companion piece to his earlier "Seduced and Abandoned," this comedy comes so close to tragedy it takes your breath away.
		Germi's satirical epilogue will remind you of the one in "All About Eve," it's that good.
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	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Germi is a police inspector investigating the murder of a wealthy homosexual.
		Germi goes through many suspects but everything keeps pointing at Castelnuovo.
		When socialite Drago is murdered, Germi has enough on the electrician to make an arrest.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=16234 (84 words)

	Pietro Germi - Movie information at FilmsAndTV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina, Saro Urzi, Renato Speziali, Carlo Giuffre, Edoardo Nevola, Amedeo Trilli, Riccardo Garrone, Oscar Keesee Jr.
		Railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci (Pietro Germi) has family and work problems, which he solves by drowning his sorrows in alcohol.
		His actions result in a train accident for which he is demoted, and he is forced to cross a picket line to earn money to feed his family--an act that alienates his friends.
	www.filmsandtv.com /search.asp?ms=2&uq=Pietro%20Germi (302 words)

	Divorce Italian Style Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		For the Criterion Collection, the timing of its latest DVD release, Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style, could not be better.
		The honor killings that Germi lampoons may be a thing of the past, at least in Italy, but the policies that led to such dubious solutions—for better of worse—still exist, as conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's promotion to the Church's highest office underlines.
		Yet, the comedy was so knowing that Germi was even able to incorporate La Dolce Vita into its fabric, as Fefe and the other residents of Agramonte ignore the priest's condemnation of the film and go to see this new provocation from Rome, only to sit in disapproving silence at the antics on the screen.
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	Amazon.com: Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection (1962): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since divorce is illegal, he will devise a scenario wherein he can catch his spouse in the arms of another and murder her to save his honor-a lesser offense.
		Criterion is proud to present director Pietro Germi's hilarious and cutting satire of Italy's hypocritical judicial system and male-dominated culture, winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, in a two-disc DVD edition that also features a documentary on the director, new interviews with the actors and screenwriter, screen-test footage, and more.
		Pietro Germi at first seems to be making an offensive movie, but viewing it with a sense of humor shows that he's poking fun, and making wry social observations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007M222A?v=glance (3038 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One doesn't usually expect a film about infidelity, divorce and murder to be a comedy but that's one reason Divorce, Italian Style, directed by Pietro Germi, became an unexpected international hit in 1962.
		Initially Pietro Germi intended to direct Divorce, Italian Style as a serious drama but soon admitted, "the deeper we got into the subject, though, we simply couldn't ignore the grotesquely comic aspects to the so-called crime of honor." (from Marcello Mastroianni: His Life and Art by Donald Dewey).
		Rumored to be having a secret affair with Germi at the time of shooting, Rocca would often show signs of emotional duress on the set.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,66944,00.html (827 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Il Ferroviere : Main
		Pietro Germi, Luisa della Noce, Saro Urzi, Edoardo Nevola
		Pietro Germi is both star and director of Il Ferroviere.
		Germi plays Andrea, a railroad engineer with a large and troublesome family.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/91239/moviemain.jhtml (138 words)

	Turner Classic Movies - Movie News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Germi's style is straight-forward, starting with his acting.
		Part of the reason why Germi later became such a success at comedy, when he suddenly turned to that genre in the 1960s with Divorce Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned, is that he continued to maintain realistic staging, just tweaking that realism enough to knock it into parody of sexual mores.
		Of course, if you have a 2-disc DVD and the main feature on the second is an 80-minute documentary that could have been just as good, if not better, at half that length, the need for a double-disc set gets mighty flimsy.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /MovieNews/Index/0,,98464,00.html (1050 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If the comedy of manners is a film genre not readily identified with Sicily, then the acclaimed writer-director Pietro Germi helped change that situation, first with the sardonic Divorce-Italian Style (1961) and then with this totally unrelated follow-up that, for once, had nothing to do with the Mafia.
		Germi, who coauthored the screenplay with three other writers, based his film on an Italian statute that absolves a man of criminal charges if he weds the woman he has seduced.
		Such social hypocrisy is a perfect setup for the considerable humor that Germi mines from this material, and the director makes good use of a largely unfamiliar cast to do so.
	www.uga.edu /~italian/cinema/seduced.htm (551 words)

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