GZ
Giancarlo Zagni
Directing
November 4, 1926
Died March 21, 2013 (86 years old)
Bologna, Italy
3
Directed
Biography
Giancarlo Zagni was an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Bologna, he attended the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bologna, then collaborated with L'avvenire d'Italia and other newspapers and magazines. From 1951 to 1954, he was assistant director to Luchino Visconti in several stage works and in the film Senso; on the film set, he met actress Alida Valli, with whom he started a sixteen-year-long relationship. During this period, he left Italy, first moving to New York, where he...
