Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella (born October 15, 1915 in Foggia , † October 7, 2002 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director . In some of his films he used the pseudonyms Paolo Dominici and Paul Fleming .
Life
Paolella was already interested in the film business as a student, took part in the Littoriali courses from 1935 to 1937 and made two experimental films . After a short time as a film critic with articles for various newspapers and magazines, Carmine Gallone engaged him as an assistant at Scipio l'Africano . Subsequently, Paolella made numerous documentaries and short films. A book on experimental cinema was also published. After the fall of Mussolini , he was responsible for one of the first documentaries on the resistance. During the war he worked as a correspondent on the Soviet front; from 1946 to 1951 he was the editor of the first 500 issues of the weekly magazine Incom, which he founded himself .
In 1952 he made the documentary America , which was narrated by Orson Welles in the USA , and gained television experience with two crime films. His La tragedia dell'Etna won the prize for the best documentary film in Cannes . After returning to his native Italy, he specialized in genre films , each of which had its prime; then find Comedies , hit movies , pirate movies , sandals films , spaghetti westerns and nunsploitation in his oeuvre. After he shot his last film in 1979, he surprisingly worked again on several scripts between 1992 and 1994.
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: The lifesaver (Il coraggio)
- 1960: Pirate Coast (I pirati della costa)
- 1961: The Adventures of the Skull Pirates (Il terrore dei mari)
- 1961: Avengers of the Seas (Il giustiziere dei mari)
- 1961: The Black Brigand (Il segreto dello sparviero nero)
- 1962: Maciste in battle with the pirate king (Maciste contro lo sceicco)
- 1962: Women for Devil's Island (Prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo)
- 1963: Battle of the Giants (Ursus il gladiatore ribelle)
- 1963: Masked ball at Scotland Yard
- 1963: The Hellhounds of Genghis Khan (Maciste contro i Mongoli)
- 1964: Hercules against the tyrants of Babylon (Ercole contro i tiranni di Babilonia)
- 1964: The annihilation of Genghis Khan (Maciste nell'inferno di Gengis Khan)
- 1965: Agent S 03: Operazione Atlantide
- 1965: The revenge of Spartacus (Il gladiatore che sfidò l'impero)
- 1967: The Merciless Two (Odio per odio)
- 1968: Django - The Bible is not a card game (Execution)
- 1973: The nun of Verona (Le monache di Sant'Arcangelo)
- 1973: The Nonnenspiegel (Storia di una monaca di clausura)
- 1974: The Prey (La Preda)
- 1979: Sonderkommando into the afterlife (La polizia è sconfitta)
Web links
- Domenico Paolella in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography at cinematografo.it
- Biography of Guglielmo Siniscalchi at Treccani
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christopher Frayling: Spaghetti westerns: cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone, 2006, p. 560
- ^ Roberto Poppi: I registi dal 1930 ai nostri giorni, Gremese 2002, p. 319
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SURNAME | Paolella, Domenico |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Paolo Dominici (pseudonym); Paul Fleming (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Foggia |
DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 2002 |
Place of death | Rome |