Lino Del Fra

Jun 20, 1927 - Rome, Lazio, Italy

Lino Del Fra (20 June 1927 – 19 July 1997) was an Italian director and screenwriter.

Pasqualino Del Fra was born in Rome. He graduated with a degree in philosophy and pedagogy at the faculty of letters of the Capitoline University . In the early 1950s he worked as a film critic in the pages of the newspaper L'Avanti and the magazines Cinema Nuovo and Bianco Nero . He began his career as a documentary filmmaker in the 1960s, taking part in the 1962 collective documentary All'armi, siam fascisti!

In 1961, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for the short film Fata Morgana , which deals with southern Italian emigrants to Northern Italy.

He won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for the 1977 film Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison , his cinematographic work was marked by the collaboration with his wife Cecilia Mangini,

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Movie	1977	Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	To Arms, We Are Fascists!	Story	Writing
Movie	1973	Holidays	Screenplay	Writing
Movie	1960	L’inceppata	Director	Directing
Movie	1964	Vecchio regno	Director	Directing
Movie	1982	Comizi d’amore ’80 - episode 2	Director	Directing
Movie	1961	Fata Morgana	Director	Directing
Movie	1969	V. & V.	Director	Directing
Movie	1982	Comizi d’amore ’80 - episode 1	Director	Directing
Movie	1982	Comizi d’amore ’80 - episode 3	Director	Directing
Movie	1963	I misteri di Roma	Director	Directing
Movie	1973	Cake in the Sky	Writer	Writing
Movie	1973	Cake in the Sky	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	To Arms, We Are Fascists!	Director	Directing
Movie	1962	To Arms, We Are Fascists!	Screenplay	Writing
Movie	1967	Come favolosi fuochi d'artificio	Director	Directing
Movie	1965	Dopo l'alluvione	Director	Directing
Movie	1959	The Wheat Passion	Director	Directing

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