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Vecchiali was born in the city of Ajaccio, region of Corsica, France, in 1930. He began his professional course in 1961 with the movie “Les Petits Drames”, but his recognition only came a decade later, in films like “The Strangler” (1970), “Women Women” (1974), “Don’t Change Hands” (1975) and “Drugstore Romance” (1979) —his most known and successful features. In the 1980s, he made movies like “At the Top of the Stairs” (1983), “Rosa la Rose, Fille Publique” (1986), “Once More” (1988) and “Le Café des Jules” (1989). The rediscovery of his filmography happened in the 2010s, with movies such as “White Nights on the Pier” (2014, 38th Mostra), “C’est l’Amour” (2015, 39th Mostra), “Le Cancre” (2016, 40th Mostra), and “Life Trains or The Travel of Angélique” (2017, 42nd Mostra). On the 41st Mostra, the filmmaker received the Leon Cakoff Prize for his career and had a retrospective of his vast trajectory. Vecchiali passed away in January 2023, aged 92.