بیوگرافی
Antonio Maria Magro was born in Catanzaro on June 13, 1959. He was raised in Bologna. In 1980, he joined the "Compagnia di Prosa Radiofonica di Firenze", the national radio acting company, in which he took part, as leading actor, to more than 300 plays. Thereafter, he joined the Compagnia di prosa della RadioTelevisione Svizzera, in Lugano, Switzerland, the main Swiss radio acting company, where he worked for many years. Decadenza (1976), his first feature film starring Italian actor Raf Vallone, started his film directing career. He directed lots of documentaries and TV commercials until 1990, when the University of Ferrara charge him of shooting a television film to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the foundation of the university: L'ulivo e l'alloro, which he wrote and directed and made him win the Special Jury Prize at the Vienna International Film Festival in 1992. In 1992, he shot Dov'era lei a quell'ora with world-famous Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, Italian actors Oreste Lionello, Dalila di Lazzaro, Riccardo Fogli and Storie di seduzione, co-starring with Florence Guérin and with Carrol Baker and Marina Suma. For television, he wrote, directed and hosted I viaggi dell'anima for Rai 2, a 53-episode program. In 2003, he starred in I salmoni del San Lorenzo, an Italian-Hungarian feature film (co-produced by Rai Cinema and Cinema-Film KFT Budapest), directed by András Ferenc.
