About Damiano Damiani
Damiano Damiani was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mereghetti said that his style made him "the most American of Italian directors". His 1962 film, Arturo's Island, won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Before his career as a big screenwriter, Damiani was first a comic cartoonist in association with the "Group of Venice". After a few years as a screenwriter, he directed his first feature film in 1960, Il rossetto. In 1966, he directed A Bullet for the General, one of the first political spaghetti Westerns.
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