Andrea Crisanti (June 12, 1936, Rome – May 7, 2012) was an Italian production designer and art director.Crisanti studied Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He began his film career as assistant set designer to Mario Garbuglia by working on the set of The Great War (1959) with Mario Monicelli. Then he worked with other set designers. He debuted in Maciste in Hell (1962) by Riccardo Freda, working both in cinema and theatre.The crucial meeting to his career came in 1970 with Francesco Rosi. He worked on Cinema Paradiso (1988) and A Pure Formality (1994) by Giuseppe Tornatore, which won a David di Donatello Award. Sicily is one of his favourite places, and he recalled the pomp of seventeenth century Bourbon period for the set of The Council of Egypt (2002) by Emidio Greco. Crisanti worked on Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982), Franzo Zeffirelli's Young Toscanini (1988), Gianni Amelio's The Stolen Children (1992), and Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (1983).Crisanti taught art at Rome's Experimental Cinematography Centre from 1995 until his death and was president of A.S.C., Set and Costume Designers Association.
From 1995, until his death, he was president of A.S.C., Set and Costume Designers Association.
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Italian art director and production designer, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He was noted for his frequent collaborations with directors Giuseppe Tornatore and Francesco Rossi and later taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Il volto di un'altra
2012
Magnifica presenza
2012
Mine vaganti
2010
Ricordati di fare miao
2009
Short
Il sangue dei vinti
2008
K. Il bandito
2008
La masseria delle allodole
2007
La contessa di Castiglione
2006
TV Movie
The Goodbye Kiss
2006
Face Addict
2005
Documentary
Cuore sacro
2005
Sotto falso nome
2004
The Accidental Detective
2003
L'avvocato de Gregorio
2003
Il consiglio d'Egitto
2002
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001
Ama il tuo nemico 2
2001
TV Movie
Excellent Cadavers
1999
TV Movie
Non lasciamoci più
1999
TV Series
Vado e torno
1998
TV Movie
The Truce
1997
Bambola di carne
1995
Moon Shadow
1995
A Pure Formality
1994
Il ladro di bambini
1992
Everybody's Fine
1990
Dimenticare Palermo
1990
Cinema Paradiso
1988
Il giovane Toscanini
1988
Luci lontane
1987
Cronaca di una morte annunciata
1987
Devil in the Flesh
1986
Nostalgia
1983
Identification of a Woman
1982
Prima che sia troppo presto
1981
Miracoloni
1981
Tre fratelli
1981
L'avvertimento
1980
A Leap in the Dark
1980
Il cappotto di Astrakan
1979
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
1979
Ecco noi per esempio...
1977
Tre tigri contro tre tigri
1977
High Rollers
1976
Cadaveri eccellenti
1976
Lucky Luciano
1973
The Mattei Affair
1972
Incontro d'amore
1970
Many Wars Ago
1970
I due crociati
1968
Art Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou
2008
Ma l'amore... sì!
2006
Fratella e sorello
2004
Facing Windows
2003
Vipera
2000
Everybody's Fine
1990
Più bello di così si muore
1982
Duck, You Sucker
1971
Brutti di notte
1968
Seven Times Seven
1968
The Witch's Curse
1962
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Il giovane Toscanini
1988
set designer
Gli eroi
1973
set designer
Four Times that Night
1971
set designer
Ieri, oggi, domani
1963
assistant art director
The Four Days of Naples
1962
assistant production designer
Set Decorator
Title
Year
Status
Character
Borotalco
1982
Il signor Robinson, mostruosa storia d'amore e d'avventure
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