Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was Perché droga (1975).He made his feature film debut in 1983, with the drug-centered drama Toxic Love, which won the De Sica Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival. Only fifteen years later he directed another work, the neo-noir The Scent of the Night. He completed the editing of his third and last film, Non essere cattivo, a few days before his death for a tumor. (wikipedia)
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Biography from TMDB.
- February 7, 1948
- May 26, 2015 (aged 67)
- Arona, Italy
- Director and writer
- 2 on MovieCove · 7 credits in all
Known for
Where can I watch Claudio Caligari's films?
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Filmography
7 credits, 2 with a MovieCove page.
Parco Lambro Juvenile Proletariat Festival (Rushes) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Don't Be Bad(2015)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
The Scent of the Night(1998)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Toxic Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)
La follia della rivoluzione (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
La parte bassa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Perché droga (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)