Cecilia Mangini Explained

Cecilia Mangini (31 July 1927 – 21 January 2021) was an Italian film director, considered the first female documentary filmmaker in Italy.^{[1] [2] [3]}

In 1958, her first documentary was released, titled Ignoti alla Città (Unknown to the City). Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the film focused on adolescents in Rome's suburbs after World War II.^[1]

Mangini died on 21 January 2021 in Rome.^[4]

Personal life

Born in 1927 in Mola di Bari, Italy, Mangini moved with her family to Florence at age six, when her father's leather business failed.^[5] She then moved to Rome in 1952 and worked in a film club federation, where she met and eventually married Lino Del Fra, with whom she collaborated on several film projects.^[1]

Filmography

Director

• Ignoti alla città (1958)
• Maria e i giorni (1959)
• Firenze di Pratolini (1959)^[6]
• La canta delle marane (1960)
• Stendalì - Suonano ancora, (1960)
• La passione del grano, co-directed with Lino Del Fra (1960)
• Fata Morgana, co-directed with Lino del Fra (1961)
• All'armi, siam fascisti!, co-directed with Lino del Fra and Lino Micciché (1962)
• La statua di Stalin, co-directed with Lino del Fra (1963)^[7]
• Divino amore (1963)
• Trieste del mio cuore (1964)
• Pugili a Brugherio (1965)
• Felice Natale (1965)
• Essere donne (1965)
• Brindisi '65 (1966)^[8]
• Tommaso (1967)
• Domani vincerò (1969)
• La briglia sul collo (1974)
• In viaggio con Cecilia, co-directed with (2013)^[8]
• Due scatole dimenticate – un viaggio in Vietnam, co-directed with Paolo Pisanelli (2020)^[9]

Screenwriter

• Firenze di Pratolini (1959)
• Stendalì - Suonano ancora (1960)
• All'armi, siam fascisti!, directed by Lino Del Fra, Cecilia Mangini and Lino Micciché (1962)
• La torta in cielo, directed by Lino Del Fra (1970)
• Black Holiday, directed by Marco Leto (1973)
• , directed by Lino Del Fra (1977)
• Klon, directed by Lino Del Fra (1994)
• Regina Coeli, directed by Nico D'Alessandria (2000)
• In viaggio con Cecilia, directed by Mariangela Barbanente and Cecilia Mangini (2013)

Sources

• Book: Casadio, Gianfranco. La guerra al cinema : i film di guerra nel cinema italiano dal 1944 al 1996. 1997. Angelo Longo Editore. it. 88-8063-131-4. Ravenna. 37897234. registration.

Further reading

• Missero. Dalila. 1 July 2016. Cecilia Mangini: A Counterhegemonic Experience of Cinema. Feminist Media Histories. en. 2. 3. 54–72. 10.1525/fmh.2016.2.3.54. 2373-7492.
• Paquette. Julie. 2016. Cecilia Mangini et Pier Paolo Pasolini : des oubliés du pouvoir au fascisme à chemise blanche. Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme. fr. 15. 108–119. 1918-4662.

Notes and References

1. News: Povoledo . Elisabetta . A Legendary Documentary Maker Closes 'an Open Wound' . 22 January 2021 . The New York Times . 24 January 2020.
2. Web site: Cécilia Mangini . . 22 January 2021.
3. News: 22 January 2021. Addio a Cecilia Mangini, la prima documentarista d'Italia. 23 January 2021. La Repubblica. it.
4. Web site: 22 January 2021. È morta Cecilia Mangini, fu la prima donna documentarista italiana. Pioniera del cinema del reale, Rai Storia la dedica una serata. 23 January 2021. Il Fatto Quotidiano. it-IT.
5. Web site: Vivarelli . Nick . Cecilia Mangini, Italian Documentary Cinema Pioneer, Dies at 93 . Variety . 25 January 2021 . 26 January 2021.
6. Web site: Firenze di Pratolini . Docucity . https://web.archive.org/web/20140410125618/https://www.docucity.unimi.it/film/firenze-di-pratolini/ . 10 April 2014 . it . dead.
7. Dopo i tagli operati dalla produzione, gli autori disconosceranno l'opera, che verrà distribuita con il titolo Processo a Stalin
8. News: Mereghetti. Paolo. 22 January 2021. È morta Cecilia Mangini, pioniera del cinema documentario in Italia. 23 January 2021. Corriere della Sera. it.
9. Web site: Two Forgotten Boxes – A trip to Vietnam (Due scatole dimenticate – Un viaggio in vietnam). Filmitalia.