| Claudio Caligari | |
| Birth Date: | 1948 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Arona, Piedmont, Italy |
| Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
| Occupation: | Director |
Claudio Caligari (7 February 1948 – 26 May 2015) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was Perché droga (1975).[1] He made his feature film debut in 1983, with the drug-centered drama Toxic Love, which won the De Sica Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival.[1] [2] Only fifteen years later he directed another work, the neo-noir The Scent of the Night.[1] He completed the editing of his third and last film, Non essere cattivo, a few days before his death from a tumour.[3]
Director and Writer