Lina Wertmüller

Lina Wertmüller (born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich on August 14, 1928) is a famous Italian film director of aristocratic Swiss descent.

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August 14 - 1928 - Italian - Film director - Swiss

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Wertmüller began her career as an actress, performing for over a decade before, in 1962, working as an assistant director on Federico Fellini's 8½. The following year Wertmüller made her directorial debut with The Lizards, a film whose subject matter (the lives of impoverished southern Italians) would become a recurring motif in her later work.

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Actress - 1962 - Federico Fellini's - 8½ - Impoverished

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Several other moderately successful films followed, but it was not until 1972 that Wertmüller achieved lasting international acclaim with a series of four movies starring Giancarlo Giannini. The last, and best-received of these, was 1976's Seven Beauties, which earned 4 Academy Award nominations and was an international hit.

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1972 - Giancarlo Giannini - 1976 - Seven Beauties - Academy Award

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Though Wertmüller has had a prolific career since, and is still actively directing, none of her later films have had the same impact as her mid-1970s collaborations with Giannini. Wertmüller is married to Enrico Job, an art designer who worked on several of her pictures.

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