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Michelangelo Antonioni
born 1912 in Ferrara (I). Avant-garde motion-picture director and screenwriter, whose films are known for their haunting images of human isolation. He entered the film industry in 1942 as a screenwriter and later became an assistant director. His first feature film was «Story of a Love» (1950). Antonioni's best-known films are his trilogy «The Adventure» (1960), «Night» (1961), and «Eclipse» (1962); «Red Desert» (1964), his first colour film; «Blowup» (1966), his first English-language film; «Zabriskie Point» (1970); and «The Passenger» (1975). Later he directed «Identification of a Woman (1982)» and «Beyond the Clouds» (1995).
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