Claudio Caligari
Directing
February 7, 1948
Died at age 67
May 26, 2015
Date of Death
Arona, Italy
Biography
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)