Director

Claudio Caligari

Directing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 228745

IMDb ID: nm0129997

Known for: Directing

Born: February 7, 1948

Died: May 26, 2015

Age: 67

Place of birth: Arona, Italy

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1983 - 2024

Years active: 42

Average TMDB rating: 7.44

Wikidata: Q1098003

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Biography

Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was Perché droga (1975).He made his feature film debut in 1983, with the drug-centered drama Toxic Love, which won the De Sica Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival. Only fifteen years later he directed another work, the neo-noir The Scent of the Night. He completed the editing of his third and last film, Non essere cattivo, a few days before his death for a tumor. (wikipedia)