Dante Ferretti Biography (1943-)

Born February 26, 1943, in Marcerata, Marchesa, Italy. Addresses: Manager: Sandra Marsh Management, 9150 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 220, Beverly Hills,CA 90212.

Nationality
Italian
Gender
Male
Occupation
Production designer, set designer, art director
Birth Details
February 26, 1943
Marcerata, Italy

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Film Work
  • Production Designer
  • (With Nichola Tamburro) Medea, New Line Cinema, 1971
  • Il decamerone (also known as The Decameron), United Artists, 1971
  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven (also known as La classe operaia va in paradiso and Lulu the Tool), Euro-International Films, 1971
  • Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente, 1971
  • The Canterbury Tales (also known as I racconti di Canterbury), United Artists, 1972
  • Storie scellerate (also known as Bawdy Tales and RoguishStories), 1973
  • Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (also known as Slap the Monster on Page One and Vil en premiere page), 1973
  • Il fiore della mille e una notte (also known as Arabian Nights, Flower of the Arabian Nights, Les mille et une nuits, andA Thousand and One Nights), United Artists, 1974
  • Delitto d'amore (also known as Somewhere beyond Love), Documento Film, 1974
  • Crime of Love, Documento Film, 1974
  • The Night Porter, Avco-Embassy, 1974
  • Dio mio, come sono caduta in basso! (also known as How Long CanYou Fall? and Till Marriage Do Us Part), 1974
  • Salo, or, The One Hundred Days of Sodom (also known as Salo, o,le 120 giornate di Sodoma and Salo, ou, les 120 journees de Sodome), Zebra, 1975
  • Todo modo, [Italy], 1976
  • Il casotto (also known as Casotto, Beach House, The Beach Hut, and In the Beach House), [Italy], 1977
  • La presidentessa, 1977
  • Il mostro, 1977
  • Il gatto (also known as The Cat and Qui a tue le chat?), Rafran Cinematografica, 1978
  • Eutanasia di un amore (also known as Break Up), [Italy], 1978
  • Bye Bye Monkey (also known as Ciao maschio and Reve de singe), Fida, 1978
  • Orchestra Rehearsal (also known as Prova d'orchestra), NewYorker, 1979
  • City of Women (also known as La citta delle donne), New Yorker, 1980
  • Il minestrone, [Italy], 1980
  • La pelle (also known as La peau and The Skin), Triumph/Columbia, 1981
  • Desire (also known as Desiderio), Hemisphere, 1983
  • La nuit de Varennes (also known as La notte di Varennes, Il mondo nuovo, and That Night in Varennes), Triumph/Columbia, 1983
  • Tales of Ordinary Madness (also known as Storie di ordinaria follia), Fred Baker Films, 1983
  • E la nave va (also known as And the Ship Sails On and Etvogue le navire), VIDES, 1983, Triumph/Columbia, 1984
  • Pianoforte, [Italy], 1984
  • Il futuro e donna (also known as The Future Is a Woman), 1984
  • Le bon roi Dagobert (also known as Dagobert), Filmedis, 1984
  • (And set designer) Ginger e Fred (also known as Ginger and Fred), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1986
  • (With Rainer Schaper) The Name of the Rose (also known as Il nome della rosa, Der Name der Rose, and Le nom de la rose), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1986
  • (With Francesca LoSchiavo) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (also known as Die Abenteuer des Baron von Muenchhausen), TriStar, 1989
  • Lo zio indegno, [Italy], 1989
  • The Voice of the Moon (also known as La voce della luna), Cecchi Gori, 1989
  • Hamlet, Warner Bros., 1990
  • (With Wolfgang Hundhammer) Dr. M (also known as Club Extinction and Docteur M.), Prism Entertainment, 1990
  • (With Francesca LoSchiavo) The Sleazy Uncle, Quartet Films, 1991
  • (With Robert J. Franco) The Age of Innocence, Columbia, 1993
  • (With Francesca LoSchiavo) Interview with the Vampire (also knownas Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles), Warner Bros.,1994
  • Casino, Universal, 1995
  • (With Francesca LoSchiavo) Kundun, Buena Vista, 1997
  • Meet Joe Black (also known as Death Takes a Vacation), Universal, 1998
  • Bringing out the Dead, Paramount, 1999
  • Titus (also known as Titus Andronicus), Overseas FilmGroup,1999
  • Gangs of New York, Miramax, 2002
  • Art Director
  • Il fiore della mille e una notte (also known as Arabian Nights, Flower of the Arabian Nights, Les mille et une nuits, andA Thousand and One Nights), United Artists, 1974
  • Tales of Ordinary Madness (also known as Storie di ordinaria follia), Fred Baker Films, 1983
  • Oltre la porta (also known as Behind the Door, Beyond Obsession, Beyond the Door, Jail Bird, and The Secret beyond the Door), 1982
  • Other
  • Assistant production designer, Il vangelo secondo Matteo (also known as The Gospel according to St. Matthew and L'evangile selon saint Matthieu), Arco Films, 1964
  • Assistant music arranger, Il campagno Don Camillo (also known as Don Camillo en Russie, Don Camillo in Moscow, and Genosse DonCamillo), Francoriz Production/Rizzoli Film, 1965
  • Assistant art director, Lo sbarco di Anzio (also known as Anzio and The Battle for Anzio), 1968
  • Set decorator, I bastardi (also known as Der Bastard, Lebatard, The Cats, and Sons of Satan), 1968
  • Costume designer, Kundun, Buena Vista, 1997
  • Film Appearances
  • A la recherche de Kundun avec Martin Scorsese (also known as InSearch of Kundun with Martin Scorsese), 1998
  • Television Work
  • Production Designer; Miniseries
  • Il segreto del Sahara, 1987
  • Production Designer; Other
  • La traviata, 1992
  • Cavalleria rusticana, 1996
  • Un ballo in maschera, 2001
  • Stage Work
  • Stage Designer
  • Stage designer for the operas Tosca and La fanciulla del west, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Manon Iascaut, Italy.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

    Periodicals
    • Insight on the News, May 1, 1995, p. 26
    • TCI, February, 1995, pp. 28-31

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