Catrano Catrani

Catrano Catrani

Professione
Regia
Nascita
31 ottobre 1910
Luogo di nascita
Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Morte
19 dicembre 1974

Biografia

Catrano M. Catrani (October 31, 1910 — December 19, 1974) was an Italian-Argentine film director and producer.

Catrani was born in 1910 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy. He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He emigrated to Argentina in 1937 and settled in Buenos Aires, where he joined San Miguel Studios. He directed many short advertising films and documentaries, and in 1942 he completed his first major work, the comedy En el último piso with Zully Moreno as the lead.

His first big success was Alto Paraná, a costumbrista comedy screenwritten by novelist Velmiro Ayala Gauna, with Ubaldo Martínez in the lead role as Frutos Gómez, a sardonic and astute policeman. In 1963, he directed La fusilación or El último montonero, co-written with Félix Luna and with music by Ariel Ramírez, about the bloody death of caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza, which won the prize for best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

He married Vlasta Lah, whom he met at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he studied direction, and she studied acting. They became a couple, married, and fled to Argentina during WWII. Vlasth went on to become the country's first woman to direct a sound film.

Catrano Catrani died on December 19, 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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