The Inheritance

Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter. Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, in the Tuscany region of Italy. A former architectural student, Bolognini began his film career as an assistant to director Luigi Zampa... in Italy, and directors Yves Allegret and Jean Delannoy in France. He began directing his own feature films in the mid 1950s, and had his first international success with Gli innamorati . His other notable films of the 1950s and early 1960s include Giovani mariti , La notte brava , La giornata balorda , and the Marcello Mastroianni-Claudia Cardinale starrer Il bell'Antonio , all written by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Parting professionally with Pasolini in 1961, Bolognini went on to direct two sensual love stories starring Cardinale, La Viaccia and Senilità, before turning his talents to a series of international anthology films, including Le bambole , I tre volti , Le fate and Le streghe .
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