Enrico Guazzoni
Enrico Guazzoni (born September 18, 1876 in Rome , † September 24, 1949 there ) was an Italian film director , set designer , screenwriter and film producer .
Life
After completing his training with honors at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Guazzoni worked as a painter and in 1907 was commissioned to design the interior of “Il Moderno Cinema” - one of the first permanent cinemas in Rome. In the same year he acted as an advisor to Edoardo Bencivengas Raffaello Sanzio e la fornarina and made his debut as a director with the film Un invito a pranzo . By the middle of the First World War, Guazzoni had developed into a specialist in the genre of monumental historical and sandal films . In addition to his directorial work, he was mostly responsible for setting out his films. His greatest successes during this period include La Gerusalemme liberata (1911), Quo vadis? (1912) and Marc Antonio e Cleopatra (1913). From 1916 he worked as a screenwriter for the film company Cines in addition to directing .
After one last great success, Fabiola from 1918, Guazzoni became involved in his own film company as a producer and reduced his film output considerably. His cinematic works were already considered antiquated at the end of the 1920s, but at the latest with the beginning of the sound film era. However, Guazzoni continued to work steadily and maintained his reputation as an actor-director even beyond the time of fascism. He had one last respectable success in 1940 with The Corsair's Daughter .
Filmography (selection)
- 1907: Un invito a pranzo
- 1909: La nuova mammina
- 1909: Bruto
- 1910: Andreuccio da Perugia
- 1910: Agrippina
- 1911: La Gerusalemme liberata
- 1911: I Maccabei
- 1911: San Francesco, il poverello d'Assisi
- 1912: Quo Vadis? (Quo Vadis?)
- 1913: Marc Antonio e Cleopatra
- 1913: Scuola d'eroi
- 1914: Caius Giulio Cesare
- 1914: Immolazione
- 1914: L'istruttoria
- 1915: L'amica
- 1915: Alma Mater
- 1915: Ivan il terribile
- 1915: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii
- 1916: Caligula
- 1916: Malombra
- 1916: Madame Tallien
- 1917: Fabiola
- 1918: Lady Macbeth
- 1918: La Gerusalemme liberata
- 1920: Il scco di Roma e Clemento VII
- 1923: Messalina
- 1928: La sperduta di Allah
- 1929: Myriam
- 1932: Il domo del mattino
- 1934: Signora Paradiso
- 1935: Il re Burlone
- 1936: Ho perduto mio marito
- 1936: Re di denari
- 1936: I due sergenti
- 1937: Il dottor Antonio
- 1938: Il suo destino
- 1939: Ho visto brillare le stelle
- 1940: Antonio Meucci
- 1940: The Corsair's Daughter (La figlia del corsaro verde)
- 1941: I pirati della Malesia
- 1941: Oro nero
- 1942: La fornarina
Web links
- Enrico Guazzoni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Guazzoni at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 224
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guazzoni, Enrico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director, set designer, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1949 |
| Place of death | Rome |