Alessandro Blasetti belongs to the record of cinema as a figure whose work outlasted the productions that carried it.
The record lists Alessandro Blasetti as Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor (1900–1987).
Alessandro Blasetti was born at Rome in 1900. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Sapienza University of Rome.
The studio system was at its height in this period: contracts were long, the output was industrial, and a handful of studios decided who worked.
He worked as film director, screenwriter and film editor.
Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
Recognition followed: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1980), Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and Civil Order of Savoy.
That the work was made from Italy shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Alessandro Blasetti died in 1987, aged 87. The films remain, which is the only form in which a screen career survives.
Achievements
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic — 1980
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
- Civil Order of Savoy
- Worked as film director, screenwriter and film editor
