Catrano Catrani
Directing
- Born
- October 31, 1910 · Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
- Died
- December 19, 1974 (age 64)
Catrano M. Catrani (October 31, 1910 — December 19, 1974) was an Italian-Argentine film director and producer.
Catrani was born in 1910 in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy. He studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He emigrated to Argentina in 1937 and settled in Buenos Aires, where he joined San Miguel Studios. He directed many short advertising films and documentaries, and in 1942 he completed his first major work, the comedy En el último piso with Zully Moreno as the lead.
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His first big success was Alto Paraná, a costumbrista comedy screenwritten by novelist Velmiro Ayala Gauna, with Ubaldo Martínez in the lead role as Frutos Gómez, a sardonic and astute policeman. In 1963, he directed La fusilación or El último montonero, co-written with Félix Luna and with music by Ariel Ramírez, about the bloody death of caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza, which won the prize for best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
He married Vlasta Lah, whom he met at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he studied direction, and she studied acting. They became a couple, married, and fled to Argentina during WWII. Vlasth went on to become the country's first woman to direct a sound film.
Catrano Catrani died on December 19, 1974, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Known for
Behind the camera17
- 1972I Was Born In The Ribera Director, Producer
- 1972¿De quiénes son las mujeres? Director
- 1967Tacuara y Chamorro, pichones de hombres Director, Screenplay
- 1965Santiago querido! Director
- 1963El último montonero Writer, Director
- 1960The Furies Producer
- 1960Álamos talados Producer, Director
- 1958Upper Paraná Director, Writer, Producer
- 1955South of the 42nd parallel Producer, Director
- 1955
