{{Short description|Italian film director and screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Luigi Scattini | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|5|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Turin, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|7|12|1927|5|17|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | children = Monica Scattini | occupation = Film director }} '''Luigi Scattini''' (17 May 1927 – 12 July 2010)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luigi Scattini |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/4122559-Luigi-Scattini |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref> was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Scattini graduated in law, then he began his career as a journalist and a film critic for several weekly magazines such as ''Gente'' and ''Oggi''.<ref name=fvf>{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|page=43|isbn=8884401712}}</ref> In the 1960s he entered the cinema industry as a director of ephemeral films and mondo documentaries.<ref name="fvf"/> He also directed several feature films, including the comedy ''War Italian Style'' with Buster Keaton.<ref name="fvf"/> He was also active as a producer, a film editor and a dubbing director.<ref name="fvf"/><ref name="la rep">{{cite news|title=E' morto Luigi Scattini|url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/e-morto-luigi-scattini/392705|accessdate=25 December 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=25 December 2014}}</ref> He was the father of the actress Monica Scattini.<ref name="la rep"/>
== Selected filmography== * ''Primitive Love'' (1964) * ''War Italian Style'' (1966) * ''Ring Around the World'' (1966) * ''The Glass Sphinx'' (1967) * ''Sweden: Heaven and Hell'' (1968) * ''La ragazza dalla pelle di luna'' (1972) * ''The Off-Road Girl'' (1973) * ''The Body'' (1974) * ''Twilight of Love'' (1977)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0769334}}
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