Michelangelo Antonioni

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-09-29 (95 years old)

Deathday

2007-07-30

Place of Birth

Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Michelangelo Antonioni

Biography

Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer. Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962), as well as the English-language Blowup (1966), Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. His ...

Production

1966

Blow-Up

as Screenplay

1966

Blow-Up

as Director

1970

Zabriskie Point

as Screenplay

1970

Zabriskie Point

as Director

1962

L'Eclisse

as Director

1960

L'Avventura

as Screenplay

1960

L'Avventura

as Director

1953

Love in the City

as Director

1995

1972

Chung Kuo: China

as Director

1964

Red Desert

as Director

1975

The Passenger

as Screenplay

1975

The Passenger

as Director

1975

The Passenger

as Editor

1961

La Notte

as Screenplay

1957

Il Grido

as Director

1961

La Notte

as Story

1961

La Notte

as Director

1952

2008

Palermo Shooting

as In Memory Of

1955

Le Amiche

as Screenplay

1955

Le Amiche

as Director

2004

Eros

as Director

2004

Eros

as Writer

1950

1982

1953

The Vanquished

as Director

1953

1965

The Three Faces

as Director

1962

L'Eclisse

as Story

1964

Red Desert

as Screenplay

1964

Red Desert

as Story

1949

Lies of Love

as Director

1947

Tragic Hunt

as Screenplay

1970

1965

1948

N.U.

as Director

1965

Il provino

as Director

1965

Il provino

as Writer

1950

1948

Superstition

as Director

1995

Beyond the Clouds

as Screenplay

2008

Sweet Ruin

as Screenplay

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Technically Sweet

as Screenplay

1953

The Vanquished

as Screenplay

1953

1960

L'Avventura

as Story

1972

1990

1948

1989

Roma

as Writer

1989

Roma

as Director

1966

Blow-Up

as Story

1957

Il Grido

as Story

1957

Il Grido

as Screenplay

1942

A Pilot Returns

as Screenplay

1992

Kumbha Mela

as Director

1962

L'Eclisse

as Screenplay

1949

Lies of Love

as Writer

1948

N.U.

as Editor

1948

N.U.

as Writer

1948

Superstition

as Writer

1949

Lies of Love

as Sound

1948

Superstition

as Editor

1949

Lies of Love

as Editor

1970

1953

1959

Sign of the Gladiator

as Second Unit Director

1997

Sicily

as Director

1992

Kumbha Mela

as Director of Photography

1992

Kumbha Mela

as Editor

1995

1997

Sicily

as Producer

1950

1984

Fotoromanza

as Director

2025

The Night

as Original Film Writer

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