Gianni Mnaganelli Biography
Gianni Manganelli (1942 - 2016), born Giovanni Manganelli, was an Italian screenwriter and artist. Born on 5 June 1942 in San Giovanni in Persiceto (Bologna), after studying at the Convitto Nazionale Cicognini in Prato he moved to London for five years, where he graduated in film directing. Having returned to Italy, during the Seventies he was in Rome, active as an assistant director alongside the busy young directors of the time, but it was in the following decade that he signed, together with other authors, the screenplays for a series of humorous films with actors such as Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto and Adriano Celentano. Among the films that have seen Manganelli's pen involved, there was, in 1978, the satirical parody of fascism Quando c'era lui... dear lei!, accused at the time of trivializing the dictatorship. With the director and screenwriter Giancarlo Santi, Manganelli participated in the subject with authors of the caliber of Oreste Del Buono and Hugo Pratt. At the beginning of the 1980s Manganelli was a television writer for Rai. An eclectic artist, at the end of the decade he took refuge in Versilia, in Pietrasanta, to dedicate himself only to sculpture, perhaps his deepest passion. Manganelli was called the sculptor of water. His favorite subjects are animals (hippos, elephants, frogs, dolphins, crocodiles), human figures.
