Alberto Lattuada (1914-2005) was an Italian
cinema director, screenplay writer and producer. After the end of the war, he focused exclusively on cinema, as assistant director for Mario Soldati on
Old-Fashioned World and as a screenplay writer. Among his films, largely based on works of literature, there are
The Mill on the Po,
She-Wolf,
The Overcoat,
Tempest and
La Steppa. In 1998, Lattuada left all his archive material to the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana in Milan, of which many years before he had laid the foundations together with
Luigi Comencini and Mario Ferrari, saving a great number of old films from destruction.
