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Corrado Farina

Italian filmmaker and writer (1939–2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ522814 ↗
Source-derived summary

Corrado Farina (18 March 1939 – 11 July 2016) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist. He directed two feature films in the 1970s, many documentaries and commercials, and he published nine novels and an autobiography.

Filmography

Novels

(in Italian) Un posto al buio, Biblioteca del Vascello, 1994. (ISBN 88-86312-46-6)

(in Italian) Giallo antico, Fògola, 1999. (ISBN 88-7406-004-1)

(in Italian) Storia di sesso e di fumetto, Mare nero, 2001. (ISBN 88-87495-36-X)

(in Italian) Dissolvenza incrociata, Fògola, 2002. (ISBN 88-7406-004-1)

(in Italian) Il calzolaio, Marco Valerio, 2004. (ISBN 88-7547-005-7)

(in Italian) Il cielo sopra Torino, Fògola, 2006. (ISBN 88-7406-099-8)

(in Italian) L'invasione degli ultragay - una storia politicamente scorretta, Zero91, 2008. (ISBN 88-95381-06-8)

(in Italian) La figlia dell'istante, Fògola, 2010.

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The public source identifies “Corrado Farina” as italian filmmaker and writer (1939–2016). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Corrado, Farina and Italian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 2016, 1994, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Corrado, Farina and Italian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q522814. The first chronological checks are 1939, 2016, 1994 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Corrado Farina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.