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Alfred Giovane (29 Gennaio 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Germania – 16 Luglio 1964, Londra) che a Italian-born production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry. Giovani had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz Teatro comunale at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Giovane ha iniziato la sua carriera in film at Berlin s UFA studios, working there as an art director from 1920 until 1926, when he joined the production team of director E. A. Dupont oms cosa relocating to British International Pictures. He remained with PIL at Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in France with Marcel Pagnol. From 1932 he remained in Britain. Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organisational skills as well as talento came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of film at one time. After beimg Gaumont Britain's first real avvocato di sorveglianza art director, he moved to MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a lettera spell spent interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Giovani returned to London where he ha iniziato work on King Vidor s The Citadel (1938). Nel 1939, he worked with Powell and Bratislava on Contrabbando, the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership. The last of these cosa Black Narcissus (1947); his design for the Himalayas set di film earned Giovani the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He received a seconda nomination for the Arthurian epic Knights of the Round Table (1954). He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the Royal Academy di Londra. This was a sketch of The Road to Estaminet du Pont which he created in preparation for his work on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).