Michelangelo Antonioni

Wrote for Fascist film magazine Cinema in 1940, but was fired after a few months by editor Vittorio Mussolini, the son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Served in the Italian army during World War II. Made his feature directing debut at the age of 38 with the 1950 Italian drama Story of a Love Affair . Best known internationally for his English-language debut, the 1966 thriller Blow-Up , starring Vanessa Redgrave. Did not direct a feature film for more than a decade after being partially… Show more paralyzed by a stroke in 1985. With the assistance of director Wim Wenders, returned in 1995 with the dramatic anthology Beyond the Clouds , based on Antonioni's book That Bowling Alley on the Tiber: Tales of a Director . Died on July 30, 2007, the same day that the celebrated Swedish director, Ingmar Bergman, also died. ~ Rovi

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