LEANDRO CASTELLANI

Leandro Castellani (Fano, 1 December 1935) is an Italian author director who works between TV, cinema and radio.
He was one of the main creators of the historical television survey and testimonial programs, for which he received numerous international awards, from the Golden Lion of Venice to the Marconi Prize, from the Montecarlo Prize to the Prix Italia, to the Chianciano Prize of Radio and Television Critics , at the Premio Fortino-Montefeltro (with Sergio Leone) etc .; the creator of Theater-Inquiry and numerous other formulas of TV cultural program.
Among the TV-inquiries he edited and produced, L'enigma Oppenheimer, the cycles of Thousand not more than one thousand (1979), The bomb before and after (1984), Nuremberg trial at the trial (1985), Le mille e un'Italia (1987 ).
He has directed and often also written numerous "scripts", TV series and TV-movies, among which we can remember The Dreyfus affair (1968), The Slansky trial (1968), The five days of Milan (1970), Orfeo in paradiso (1971 ), Hypothesis on the disappearance of an atomic physicist (1972), System crime - The case of Don Minzoni (1973), Ladri & Quadri, (1973), Forty Days of Freedom (1974), La gatta (1978), The undersigned Joseph Donati (1983) and many others.
He has experimented, always successfully, in almost all television genres, from the "theater reinvented for TV" (Il Faust by Marlowe, 1977), to the musical show (Vai col liscio !, 1974), to the "giallo" (On thread of memory, 1972) to the film-TV of cultural commitment (Tommaso d'Aquino, 1975).