Daniele D'Anza

Director

April 20, 1922 (61 years)

† April 12, 1984

Milano, Italy

Biography

Daniele D'Anza was an Italian director, playwright, and screenwriter. He began his career in theater, notably directing the antimilitarist play Venticinque metri di fango in 1946, which garnered critical acclaim. Transitioning to television, D'Anza became known for his work on Italian TV dramas and series, contributing significantly to the medium's development in Italy. His innovative storytelling and direction left a lasting impact on Italian television.

Filmography

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Melissa

Always on the hunt for news, journalist Guy Foster has no idea that he will soon be the subject of the city's crime pages: when his wife Melissa is found strangled in Regent's Park, he will be the first on the list of suspects. His innocence remains to be proven, as does the phone call the journalist claims to have received from his wife shortly before her body was discovered. A second murder and an attempted murder will further complicate matters...

8.5

Orient Express

A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.

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Scaramouche

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8.0

Il segno del comando

An English writer interested in the occult searches Rome for George Byron's lost diaries, convinced that they hide a terrible secret. During his search, mysterious events occur around him, including a murder and the enigmatic appearances of a beautiful woman...

9.0

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

The English countryside provides the backdrop for the story of the Bennet family, who are of modest social standing, and in particular for the second daughter, Elizabeth. Italian adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice".

7.0

Racconti fantastici

Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."

8.2

The bitter case of the Baroness of Carini

Sicily 1812: the first liberal constitution shall put an end to the privileges of the feudal lords. Luca Corbara, sent by the Minister of Finance to control the landed properties, begins to suspect that the current Carini feud is made up of lands usurped more than two centuries before by the lover of the killed Baroness.

10.0

Joe Petrosino

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7.0

I Have Met a Shadow

The male protagonist falls in love with a very beautiful blonde woman and with a mysterious past who seems to be almost a ghost, a shadow.

7.0

Madame Bovary

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

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Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde

This is an Italian made-for-TV movie starring Terence Hill

9.0

Zeno’s Conscience

Set between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Zeno Cosini, a wealthy Trieste merchant, neurotic and smoker, is marked by a conflictual relationship with his father and a chronic sense of inadequacy that drives him to seek help from psychoanalyst Dr. S.

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Il mattatore

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Aprite: polizia!

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I piaceri del sabato notte

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

5.3

Fists, Girls and Sailors

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.

6.4

Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel

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4.8

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

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L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia

Rome, 1977. Luciano Baccarini, married to the rich Irene Oro, is murdered at home while preparing a romantic dinner on the terrace for his lover. The investigations immediately focus on the man's private life.

5.8

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro

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