Corrado Farina
Corrado Farina (born March 18, 1939 in Turin , † July 11, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian film director , screenwriter and novelist.
Life
Farina organized an amateur film club in the 1950s and worked for the Federazione dei Cineamatori (FEDIC). He also made numerous Super-8 films until 1963. He then devoted himself to Caroselli by Armando Testa advertising until he as assistant spent three films in the feature films.
His first own film ... Hanno cambiato faccia won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 1971 and is described as a brilliantly staged allegory of the horrors of modern times. His second feature film, Baba Yaga , was subject to producer restrictions and was released in a version not authorized by Farina. Then Farina switched to documentaries , which he had been making since the beginning of the decade, worked again for advertising and turned to writing from the 1990s; by 2010 he published eight novels.
Filmography
- 1971: Race against death (... Hanno cambiato faccia)
- 1973: Torture Garden of Sensuality 2 (Baba Yaga)
Web links
- Corrado Farina in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website Corrado Farinas (Italian)
- Farina at mymovies
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 168
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SURNAME | Farina, Corrado |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 2016 |
Place of death | Rome |