Enrico Sabbatini (b. January 1, 1932; d. November 25, 1998) was an Italian-born costume designer and production designer for the theater and cinema industries. January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Costume designer is a cinema term which refers to a person whose responsibilty is to design costumes for a movie or stage production. ... Production designer is a term used in the movie industry to refer to the person with the responsibility for designing the sets and costumes and choosing locations, and thus for creating the overall visual appearance of a film. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...

Sabbatini was born in Spoleto, in the province of Umbria. His creations were usually very lavish and detailed, made for epoch movies. In 1986 he won the award for best costume design by the British Academy, as well as a nomination for the Oscar for his work in The Mission. He also produced fot Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Cutthroat Island (1995), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987), Bloodline (1979), Giordano Bruno (1973), Sacco and Vanzetti (1971), Camille 2000, The Lickerish Quartet, the Marco Polo TV miniseries, and many others. Specifically, he was costume designer and production designer for a large series of biblical-inspired TV series in the TNT network, such as Moses, Joseph, Jesus of Nazareth, Jacob and His Brothers, Abraham, David, Genesis and Samson and Delilah, as well as, in his last work just before he died, in the TV series Cleopatra. Spoleto (Latin: Spoletium), 42°44′ N 12°44′ E, an ancient town in the Italian province of Perugia in east central Umbria, at 385 meters (1391 ft) above sea-level on a foothill of the Apennines. ... Umbria is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies. ... Actor Jeremy Irons, playing a Spanish Jesuit priest, scales Iguassu Falls during his missionary journey to the Guarani Indians. ... Seven Years in Tibet is a non-fiction book by Heinrich Harrer, originally published in 1953. ... Cutthroat Island is a pirate-themed action film starring Geena Davis and directed by her then husband Renny Harlin filmed in various locations around Malta. ... Chronicle of a Death Foretold cover Chronicle of a Death Foretold (original Spanish title: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez. ... Giordano Bruno. ... Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right) Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian anarchists, who were arrested, tried, and electrocuted in the American state of Massachusetts, on charges of murder of Frederick Parmenter, a shoe factory... Marco Polo (September 15, 1254, Venice; or Curzola, Venetian Dalmatia — January 8, 1324, Venice) was a Venetian trader and explorer who, together with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo, was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China (which he called Cathay) and visited the... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is a cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and launched with a showing of his favorite film, Gone with the Wind, on October 3, 1988. ... Abraham is a television movie based on the life of the prophet Abraham. ...

He died in a road accident in Ouarzazate, Morocco, while filming on location for Cleopatra. The surroundings of Ouarzazate Ouarzazate (Arabic, ورزازات, Warzāzāt) (called The door of the desert) is a city in southern Morocco, situated at the crossroads of the roads of Marrakech and Agadir. ...

External links

• Enrico Sabbatini. Biography, filmography and awards.
• Enrico Sabbatini. IMDb record.