Pasquale Festa Campanile

Pasquale Festa Campanile
Born	(1927-07-28)28 July 1927 Melfi, Basilicata, Italy
Died	25 February 1986(1986-02-25) (aged 58) Rome, Lazio
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director, novelist
Years active	1949–1984

Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, mostly known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.

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  1 Life and career
  


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  2 Personal life
  


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  3 Filmography
  
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    3.1 Director
    
  
  
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    3.2 Screenwriter
    
  
  


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  4 Bibliography
  


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  5 External links
  

Life and career

Born at Melfi, in the province of Potenza, he moved to Rome at young age. He started as a writer and literary critic. La nonna Sabella, one of his novels, was later adapted by Dino Risi into the movie of the same name, internationally known as Oh! Sabella (1957).

He began his cinema career as a screenwriter with Faddija – La legge della vendetta (1949) by Roberto Bianchi Montero and later co-produced masterpieces of Italian cinema such as Poveri ma belli (1957) by Risi and Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and The Leopard (1963) by Luchino Visconti.

His first film as a director was A Sentimental Attempt (1963), along with Massimo Franciosa. Subsequently he made many films of the commedia all'italiana genre, including La Matriarca (1969), Il merlo maschio (1971), Jus primae noctis (1972) and Conviene far bene l'amore (1975), the latter is based on his novel with the same name.

Pasquale Festa Campanile had a collaboration with Italian singer and actor Adriano Celentano, directing him in films like Rugantino (1973), Qua la mano (1980) and Bingo Bongo (1982). Other notable movies include Soldier of Fortune, a satirical revisiting of the challenge of Barletta; the crime film Hitch-Hike (1977); the LGBT-themed Nessuno è perfetto (1981); Petomaniac (1983), loosely based on French entertainer Joseph Pujol and A Proper Scandal (1984), inspired by the Bruneri-Canella case which is also his last cinematographic work.

He died of a kidney tumor at Rome in 1986.

Personal life

Festa Campanile has been married with Italian painter Anna Salvatore, from whom he divorced in 1962. Later he was linked to actresses Maria Grazia Spina, Catherine Spaak and Lilli Carati. He married his last wife, Rosalba Mazzamuto, a year prior to his death.

Filmography

Director

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  Un tentativo sentimentale (1953)


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  Le voci bianche (1964)


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  La costanza della ragione (1965)


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  Una Vergine per il Principe (1965)


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  Adulterio all'italiana (1966)


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  La cintura di castità (1967)


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  Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare (1967)


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  The Girl and the General (La ragazza e il generale) (1967)


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  The Libertine (La matriarca) (1968)


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  Scacco alla regina (1969)


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  Con quale amore, con quanto amore (it) (1969)


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  Dove vai tutta nuda? (1969)


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  When Women Had Tails (Quando le donne avevano la coda) (1970)


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  Il merlo maschio (1971)


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  Quando le donne persero la coda (1971)


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  La calandria (1972)


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  Jus primae noctis (film) (1972)


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  L'emigrante (1973)


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  Rugantino (1973)


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  La sculacciata (1974)


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  Conviene far bene l'amore (1975)


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  Dimmi che fai tutto per me (1976)


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  Il soldato di ventura (1976)


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  Hitch-Hike (1977)


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  Cara sposa (1977)


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  Come perdere una moglie e trovare un amante (1978)


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  Sabato, domenica e venerdì (1979)


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  Il ritorno di Casanova (1979)


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  Il corpo della ragassa (1979)


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  Gegè Bellavita (1979)


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  Il ladrone (1980)


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  Qua la mano (1980)


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  Nessuno è perfetto (1981)


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  Culo e camicia (1981)


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  Mano lesta (1981)


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  Bingo Bongo (1982)


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  La ragazza di Trieste (1982)


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  Più bello di così si muore (1982)


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  Porca vacca (1982)


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  Un povero ricco (1983)


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  Il petomane (1983)


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  Uno scandalo perbene (1984)

Screenwriter

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  Faddija (1949)


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  Un tentativo sentimentale (1953)


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  Gli innamorati (1955)


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  La donna che venne dal mare (1957)


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  La nonna Sabella (1957)


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  Poveri ma belli (1957)


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  Belle ma povere (1957)


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  Il cocco di mamma (1957)


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  Vacanze a Ischia (1957)


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  Giovani Mariti (1958)


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  Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)


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  Totò e Marcellino (1958)


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  Tutti innamorati (1958)


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  Venezia, la luna e tu (1958)


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  Ferdinando I Re di Napoli (1959)


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  Il magistrato (1959)


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  La cento chilometri (1959)


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  Poveri milionari (1959)


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  Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)


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  L'assassino (1961)


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  La viaccia (1961)


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  La bellezza di Ippolita (1962)


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  Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962)


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  Smog (1962)


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  Il Gattopardo (1963)


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  In Italia si chiama amore (1963)


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  Senza sole né luna (1963)


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  The Conjugal Bed (Una storia moderna: l'ape regina) (1963)


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  Le voci bianche (1964)


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  La costanza della ragione (1965)


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  Una Vergine per il Principe (1965)


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  Adulterio all'italiana (1966)


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  The Girl and the General (1967)


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  Dove vai tutta nuda? (1969)


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  When Women Had Tails (1970)


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  Il merlo maschio (1971)


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  La calandria (1972)


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  Jus primae noctis (film) (1972)


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  L'emigrante (1973)


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  Rugantino (1973)


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  La sculacciata (1974)


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  Conviene far bene l'amore (1975)


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  Il soldato di ventura (1976)


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  Hitch-Hike (1977)


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  Gegè Bellavita (1979)


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  Qua la mano (1980)


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  Un povero ricco (1983)

Bibliography

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  La nonna Sabella (1957)


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  Conviene far bene l'amore (1975)


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  Il ladrone (1977)


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  Il peccato (1980)


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  La ragazza di Trieste (1982)


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  Per amore, solo per amore (1984)


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  La strega innamorata (1985)


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  Buon Natale, buon anno (1986)

External links

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  Pasqual Festa Campanile on IMDb
  

v t e Recipients of the Bancarella Prize
1950s	1953 Ernest Hemingway 1954 Giovannino Guareschi 1955 Hervé Le Boterf 1956 Han Suyin 1957 Werner Keller 1958 Boris Pasternak 1959 Heinrich Gerlach
1960s	1960 Bonaventura Tecchi 1961 André Schwarz-Bart 1962 Cornelius Ryan 1963 Caccia Dominioni 1964 Giulio Bedeschi 1965 Luigi Preti 1966 Vincenzo Pappalettera 1967 Indro Montanelli 1968 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1969 Peter Colosimo
1970s	1970 Oriana Fallaci 1971 Enzo Biagi 1972 Alberto Bevilacqua 1973 Roberto Gervaso 1974 Giuseppe Berto 1975 Susanna Agnelli 1976 Carlo Cassola 1977 Giorgio Saviane 1978 Alex Haley 1979 Massimo Grillandi
1980s	1980 Maurice Denuzière 1981 Sergio Zavoli 1982 Gary Jennings 1983 Renato Barneschi 1984 Luciano De Crescenzo 1985 Giulio Andreotti 1986 Pasquale Festa Campanile 1987 Enzo Biagi 1988 Cesare Marchi 1989 Umberto Eco
1990s	1990 Vittorio Sgarbi 1991 Antonio Spinosa 1992 Alberto Bevilacqua 1993 Carmen Covito 1994 John Grisham 1995 Jostein Gaarder 1996 Stefano Zecchi 1997 Giampaolo Pansa 1998 Paco Ignacio Taibo 1999 Ken Follett
2000s	2000 Michael Connelly 2001 Andrea Camilleri 2002 Federico Audisio 2003 Alessandra Appiano 2004 Bruno Vespa 2005 Gianrico Carofiglio 2006 Andrea Vitali 2007 Frank Schätzing 2008 Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2009 Donato Carrisi
2010s	2010 Elizabeth Strout 2011 Mauro Corona 2012 Marcello Simoni 2013 Anna Premoli 2014 Michela Marzano

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