About Orio Caldiron
Lived 1938 – 2025 (aged 86). Orio Caldiron was an Italian film critic, essayist, film historian, university teacher and historian.
Orio Caldiron (24 September 1938 – 28 March 2025) was an Italian film critic, film historian and academic.
Life and career Caldiron graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua. He is best known for the book Il cinema italiano negli anni sessanta ('Italian cinema in the 1960s', 1969), which was described as "a fundamental analysis of an era of massive transformation for national cinema". His works include monographies about Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Pietro Germi, Cesare Zavattini, Isa Miranda, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Giuseppe Rotunno.
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Who was Orio Caldiron?
Italian film critic and film historian
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Orio Caldiron was born on 24 September 1938 in Padua.
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Orio Caldiron died on 28 March 2025 in Rome.
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Orio Caldiron was a film critic, essayist, film historian, university teacher and historian.
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Orio Caldiron was Italian.
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