Lina Wertmüller

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1928-08-14 (93 years old)

Deathday

2021-12-09

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

Lina Wertmüller

Biography

Lina Wertmüller (14 August 1926 - 9 December 2021) was an Italian film writer and director of aristocratic Swiss descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with the film Seven Beauties. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lina Wertmüller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

1972

1970

Violent City

as Screenplay

1992

1975

Seven Beauties

as Producer

1975

1975

Seven Beauties

as Director

1989

1973

Love and Anarchy

as Director

1974

Swept Away

as Director

1984

Sotto Sotto

as Director

1972

1978

Blood Feud

as Director

1978

Blood Feud

as Writer

1968

1978

1974

All Screwed Up

as Director

1974

1996

The Nymph

as Director

1996

The Nymph

as Writer

1984

Sotto Sotto

as Story

1965

1965

1963

The Basilisks

as Director

1963

The Basilisks

as Screenplay

2003

1966

1966

2009

Damn Poverty!

as Director

2009

Damn Poverty!

as Writer

1973

Dear Parents

as Screenplay

1974

Swept Away

as Story

1974

Swept Away

as Screenplay

1992

1992

Ciao, Professore!

as Screenplay

1953

Naples Sings

as Script Supervisor

1984

Sotto Sotto

as Screenplay

1989

To Save Nine

as Director

1989

1973

1973

Love and Anarchy

as Screenplay

1993

The Russian Soul

as Director

1970

1972

1977

Which Way Is Up?

as Original Film Writer

1989

To Save Nine

as Screenplay

1989

On a Moonlit Night

as Screenplay

1963

2002

Swept Away

as Original Film Writer

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