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Filmmaker · Italy

Francesco Maselli

Died in 2023

Francesco Maselli, known as Citto, was born in Rome on 9 December 1930, the son of an art critic; Luigi Pirandello, a friend of his father, is said to have given him his nickname. Very young, he took part in the Resistance and joined the Communist Party. A graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1949, he was an assistant to Luigi Chiarini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti. In 1986 he received the special jury prize at Venice and for a long time chaired the Association nationale des auteurs de cinéma. He died in Rome on 21 March 2023.

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