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Date of Birth
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03-July-1900
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Place of Birth
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Rome
(Italy, Lazio, Province of Rome)
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Nationality
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Italy
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Also know as
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A. Blasetti
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Profession
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Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Editor, Actor, Television Director
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Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. He played himself in Luchino Visconti's film Bellissima starred by Anna Magnani, a Roman mother who desires to make her daughter a filmstar in Cinecittà where Blasetti makes the screen test for the child actors.
Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. He was President of the Jury at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. His 1969 film Simón BolÃvar was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.
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