Michelangelo Antonioni was a major Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born on 27 September 1910, in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. In 1940 he married Marisa Berenson, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist from England. Their daughter Livia Antonioni was born in 1944
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In 1950 he moved to France to work for the Cinéarte film studio as a dialogue director, but after a few months returned to Italy. He first achieved fame with his adaptation of the novel The touched by an angel (1957), which won worldwide critical acclaim and is considered one of the best films ever made. Antonioni became an internationally recognized artist through this film and through his subsequent films such as Red Desert (1964), The Passenger (1975) and Eclipse (1979).