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Luigi Romano Borgnetto
actor, director, writer
- Born:
- 1881-02-10, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
- Died:
- 1957-12-25, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
Turin, 10 February 1881: the city’s winter fog greeted the birth of Luigi Romano Borgnetto, a quiet boy who would grow up to orchestrate flickering dreams on celluloid. Behind the camera he became a swift storyteller, stirring audiences with the flour-dusted frenzy of *La farina del diavolo* (1920), then flexing mythic muscle in *La rivincita di Maciste* (1921) and sounding an early alarm for modernity in *Il segno dei tempi* (1921). Writer, director, Piedmontese to the core, Borgnetto eventually returned to the city’s streets, dying there on 25 December 1957, leaving the lights of his native Turin to shimmer on without him.
