Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before before entering Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia. There he studied acting and directing, supporting himself with a number of bottom-level movie industry jobs as an extra, bit actor, assistant director, and, on occasion, writer. In 1946, he directed his first film, Il testimone, which he also co-scripted. His early work, Il cammino della speranza (The Road to Hope, 1950), In nome della legge (In the Name of the Law, 1949), Il brigante di Tacca del Lupo (The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo, 1957) were very much in the Italian neorealist style; many were social dramas that dealt with contemporary issues pertaining to people of Sicilian heritage. Almost immediately tagged as a neorealist, Germi actually had more in common stylistically and thematically with American director John Ford (whom he deeply admired) than his Italian contemporaries. By the mid-1950s, Germi had pretty much abandoned drama in favor of satirical comedy, often utilizing the poverty-stricken regions of Sicily as his backdrop. Germi's Divorzio all'italiana (Divorce Italian Style, 1961) was a huge worldwide box-office hit which earned him an Oscar for Best Screenplay (in collaboration with Alfredo Giannetti and Ennio de Concini). In 1965, he was co-recipient of the Cannes festival Best Picture award for Signore e signori, released in the U.S. as The Birds, the Bees and the Italians. He also won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Signore e signori.
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