Biography
Jolanda Benvenuti (also credited as Iolanda Benvenuti) was an Italian film editor. She was born on 15 January 1908 in Rome and died on 16 November 1981.
She worked on more than 150 productions between 1942 and 1975. Benvenuti began a long collaboration with director Roberto Rossellini on Rome, Open City (1945) and edited many of his subsequent films, including Stromboli (1950), The Flowers of St. Francis (1950), Europa '51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954), Fear (1954) and The Messiah (1975). Her other credits include Sunday in August (1950), The Machine That Kills Bad People (1952), Bandits of Orgosolo (1961) and More Than a Miracle (1967).
