Gian Luigi Polidoro Biography
Gian Luigi Polidoro was born in Bassano del Grappa in 1927. He graduated in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1948, after having been a student and assistant of Francesco Pasineti. He dedicated himself above all to documentary filmmaking, directing numerous short films of this genre such as "Zoo", "Milk for the City", "Festa Abruzzese", "Terra di Pastori" and many others. Furthermore, he has worked in the documentary sector also on behalf of the UN.
His first feature film, "The Swedes" was made in 1961, and should have been an interesting attempt at analyzing customs, but it ended up being a comedy that ridiculed the sexual behavior of Italians abroad, in this case in Sweden. This same theme, which constituted a fundamental component of Polidoro's filmography, was also examined in the following film, "The Devil" (1962), starring Alberto Sordi. Polidoro also appeared as an actor in some films, playing very brief parts such as that of an Austrian officer in "The Great War" (1959, Mario Monicelli), or the young Igi in "A modern story (The Queen Bee) " (1963, Marco Ferreri).
Gian Luigi Polidoro died in 2000.
