Andrea Crisanti

Nascimento : 1936-06-02, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Morte : 2012-05-07

História

Andrea Crisanti (12 June 1936, in Rome – 7 May 2012) was an Italian production designer and art director. Crisanti studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He began his film career as assistant set designer to Mario Garbuglia by working on the set of The Great War (1959) with Mario Monicelli. His independent debut came with Maciste in Hell (1962) by Riccardo Freda. In 1970, Crisanti met Francesco Rosi, which proved crucial to the success of his career. He later worked on Cinema Paradiso (1988) and A Pure Formality (1994) by Giuseppe Tornatore, which won a David di Donatello Award. Sicily was one of his favourite places, and he recalled the pomp of the 17-century Bourbon period for the set of The Council of Egypt (2002) by Emidio Greco. Crisanti worked on Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982), Franzo Zeffirelli's Young Toscanini (1988), Gianni Amelio's The Stolen Children (1992), and Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (1983). He taught art at Rome's Experimental Cinematography Centre from 1995 until his death, and was president of A.S.C., the Set and Costume Designers Association. Source: Article "Andrea Crisanti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmes

The Face of Another
Production Design
Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the same show. Then Bella is fired, due to a drop in the ratings. She storms out of the TV studio and has a terrible car accident on the way home, leaving her disfigured. Yet what might well seem to be the coup de grace for Bella’s career turns out to be the perfect occasion to relaunch her own image...
O Primeiro que Disse
Production Design
Tommaso é parte da tradicional família Cantone, proprietária de uma fábrica de massas no sul da Itália. Ele viaja de Roma, onde almeja uma carreira de escritor, para uma reunião com todos. Seu irmão será anunciado como eleito para tocar os negócios da família e Tommaso pretende aproveitar a ocasião para contar a todos sobre sua homossexualidade. Mas ele não esperava que seu irmão Antônio tomaria a dianteira e comunicaria aos familiares que também é homossexual.
Blood of the Losers
Production Design
The Goodbye Kiss
Production Design
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...
Face Addict
Production Design
Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s, known as the downtown scene.
Il consiglio d'Egitto
Production Design
O Disfarce do Imperador
Production Design
Após a derrota em Waterloo, Napoleão Bonaparte (Ian Holm) é exilado na ilha de Santa Helena. Ali, os seus correligionários descobrem a existência de Eugene (Ian Holm), um sósia perfeito de Napoleão. Numa conspiração para reconquistar o poder, Eugene toma o lugar de Napoleão, enquanto o verdadeiro imperador regressa a Paris para recuperar o trono. Só que as coisas não ocorrem como planeado. Em Paris, onde é forçado a viver como um cidadão comum, Napoleão apaixona-se por uma bela viúva e ajuda-a na reconstrução dos seus negócios. Enquanto isso, Eugene, seduzido pelo poder, começa a gostar da sua nova e glamorosa personagem e não parece muito disposto a revelar a sua verdadeira identidade, como havia sido combinado.
Viper
Art Direction
Set in 1940’s and 50’s Sicily (Paternò), we follow the fortunes of Rosetta from the time she’s twelve (Larissa Volpentesta) and living with her drunken father Leone (Harvey Keitel) – he’d turned to alcohol to forget Rosetta’s mother, Vipera (Elide Melli), after she ran away with a fascist some time ago. Little Rosetta’s fortunes turn for the worse when she’s raped and made pregnant by another former fascist (Giancarlo Giannini), and Leone also dies after falling from his bicycle. She’s sent to live in a convent until the age of twenty one, and her newborn child will cruelly be adopted out by her visiting mother.
Falcone
Production Design
Determinado a quebrar o reinado da máfia na Itália, Giovanni Falcone, um advogado corajoso, ousou desafiar a Cosa Nostra.
A Trégua
Production Design
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
Uma Simples Formalidade
Production Design
Um tiro na escuridão. Um homem foge pela floresta, é preso pela polícia e levado para a delegacia. Ele está nervoso por não se lembrar o que aconteceu, mas tem certeza que não fez nada de errado; deve esperar o delegado para ser interrogado. Quando o delegado chega, o homem é informado que um assassinato ocorreu naquela noite, e ele é o principal suspeito; se quiser ser liberado e voltar para casa, precisará se lembrar de tudo que se passou naquela noite.
Estamos Todos Bem
Art Direction
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Estamos Todos Bem
Production Design
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Armadilhas do Poder
Set Decoration
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
Armadilhas do Poder
Production Design
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
Cinema Paradiso
Production Design
Um diretor de cinema lembra como, em sua infância, ele se apaixonou pelo cinema de sua cidade e iniciou uma profunda amizade com o projetista.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Set Decoration
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Production Design
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
Diabo no Corpo
Production Design
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
Self
A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
Nostalgia
Production Design
Andrei está escrevendo um livro sobre um compositor russo do século XVIII, refazendo seu caminho pela Europa para entender sua vida. Ao chegar a uma pequena e arcaica cidade italiana Andrei conhece Domenico, um homem que trancou a família em casa por 7 anos para protegê-los dos males do mundo; o homem é considerado louco por todos, mas Andrei vê algum sentido no que ele fez e cria uma certa obsessão por entendê-lo.
Identificação de uma Mulher
Production Design
The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.
Più bello di così si muore
Production Design
In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.
Borotalco
Production Design
Sergio, um vendedor de porta em porta desajeitado, finge ser hedonista para impressionar Nadia, grande fã de Lucio Dalla. Haverá um final feliz?
Miracoloni
Production Design
TRÊS IRMÃOS
Production Design
Por conta do falecimento da mãe, três irmãos voltam à fazenda da família, no sul da Itália. Raffaele (Philippe Noiret), que vive em Roma, é um juiz às voltas com um caso de assassinato político, Rocco (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) é conselheiro de menores infratores em Nápoles e Nicola (Michele Placido) é operário em Turim. Reunidos após um longo período de afastamento, os três relembram o passado e projetam o futuro.
The Warning
Art Direction
It is a law police officials obey out of fear. A rule chilling in its simplicity. Accept corruption...or die! They have sealed an unholy alliance. The great banks of Europe. And the blackhearted underworld empire. Together, with their matchless wealth, there is no stopping their almighty, corrosive power. Even the police force's investigation into the diabolical link has been polluted by corruption and terror! When key police officials of the inquiry are viciously assassinated, only two honest men remain--a commissioner and police chief--to carry out the suicidal investigation. And they must fight a deepening mistrust of each other. For they too, know the only rule of the game. They too, have been warned!
The Persian Lamb Coat
Production Design
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...
Leap Into the Void
Production Design
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship and tries to get Giovanni arrested.
Cristo Parou em Éboli
Production Design
Inspirado no romance autobiográfico de Carlo Levi, o filme narra a vida de um médico e escritor antifascista colocado sob prisão domiciliar em 1935 em uma remota vila italiana. Proibido de exercer qualquer atividade, incluindo a prática da medicina, ele descobre o mundo camponês, longe dos círculos intelectuais, até ser libertado dois anos depois já tendo ganhado a estima dos agricultores pobres da região.
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
Production Design
Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.
Here We for Example...
Production Design
Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
Mr. Robinson
Production Design
A shipwreck strands a modern Italian businessman on a desert island. Like Robinson Crusoe he must find a way to return to civilization; unlike him--he's a 20th-century man, a totally different case.
The Con Artists
Production Design
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
Cadáveres Ilustres
Production Design
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Lucky Luciano
Production Design
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
O Caso Mattei
Production Design
Cinebiografia do industrial italiano Enrico Mattei. Dono de um império no setor de energia, o empresário morreu em circunstâncias misteriosas num acidente de avião em 1962. Para se manter livre da interferência do governo, Mattei gastava grandes quantias em dinheiro com suborno de autoridades. Quando pretendeu transformar a Itália numa potência petrolífera mundial, passou a enfrentar dificuldades.
Quando Explode a Vingança
Art Direction
No início da Revolução Mexicana em 1913, o bandido mexicano Juan Miranda e o idealista irlandês John H. Mallory, especialista em explosivos, se encontram com um grupo de revolucionários que estão planejando roubar um banco nacional. Quando se descobre que o governo vem usando o banco como esconderijo para presos políticos ilegalmente detidos, que são liberados pela explosão. Miranda se torna um herói revolucionário contra a sua vontade.
Quatro Vezes Naquela Noite
Production Design
A night of attempted seduction is recalled from the perspectives of the woman, the man, a lecherous doorman and a psychoanalyst.
Many Wars Ago
Production Design
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
I due Crociati
Production Design
Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.
Brutti di notte
Art Direction
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Production Design
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.
Um Sonho, Uma Realidade...
Assistant Production Design
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.
Ontem, Hoje e Amanhã
Assistant Set Decoration
Histórias sobre três mulheres, interpretadas por Sophia Loren, todas muito diferentes e os homens que elas atraem. 1 - Adelina vende cigarros no mercado negro e é casada com o desempregado Carmine (Marcello Mastroianni). Ela é sentenciada a prisão, mas pode escapar enquanto estiver grávida. Sete anos e sete filhos depois, o marido esta exausto e a prisão parece algo inevitável, assim como o desprezo de Adelina por Carmine. 2 - Em Milão, Anna esta entediada e resolve dar carona a um escritor. Ela fala com um ar sonhador em fugir dali, e ele dá a atenção que ela precisa. 3 - Enquanto isso, Mara chama a atenção de um ingênuo seminarista, fazendo com que ela brigue com sua avó e faça um voto de castidade. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
The Four Days of Naples
Assistant Production Design
The four days of Naples was not a revolution. They had no leaders, no preparations of any kind. The revolt was born and flared up in a matter of hours. The whole population of Naples took part in it, but they all did so without consulting the others. Driven by a kind of necessity, the Neapolitans took up their rifles, armed themselves with stones, household objects, and bottles of petrol, and fought on their stretch of road, anonymous and silent. Once the battle was over, everyone returned to their homes and the revolt remained in memory with only the names of the dead, those, at least, who were known. One figure still remembered is that of Gennarino Capuozzo, a ten-year-old boy who was killed on a barricade while fighting against the invaders of his village.
The Witch's Curse
Art Direction
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.