page_title: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
section_title: Selected filmography
hierarchical_section_title: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi / Selected filmography
caption_attribution_description: photo of Giuseppe Patroni Griffi from magazine Radiocorriere (1954)
context_page_description: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director and author.
  He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent his professional life there. Patroni Griffi is considered one of the most prominent contributors to Italian theater and film in post-war Italy.
  Roberto Rossellini made a movie from his play Anima nera.
  His first listed film writing credit was on the 1952 musical Canzoni di mezzo secolo. Patroni Griffi would later direct Charlotte Rampling, Elizabeth Taylor, Marcello Mastroianni, Laura Antonelli, Florinda Bolkan, Terence Stamp, Fabio Testi.
  Patroni Griffi was also involved with numerous television productions of lyric opera, including Verdi's La Traviata. His many theatrical productions include works by Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Jean Cocteau and Tennessee Williams. As a writer, he published a first collection of stories in 1955, Ragazzo di Trastevere. Later, he contributed significantly to the body of Italian gay literature with Scende giù per Toledo and La morte della bellezza, both set in Naples.
  He died in Rome.
context_section_description: As a director, he is most noted for:
  Il Mare (1962)
  Metti una sera a cena (1969)
  Addio, fratello crudele (1971, film adaptation of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore with Charlotte Rampling and Oliver Tobias)
  Identikit (1974) with Elizabeth Taylor
  The Divine Nymph (1975)
  La gabbia (1985)
  La romana (1988)
  Tosca (1992)
  La traviata (2000)
caption: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi in 1958
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