Fernando Cerchio

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Fernando Cerchio (born August 7, 1914 in Luserna San Giovanni , † August 19, 1974 in Mentana ) was an Italian screenwriter , film director , film editor and film producer .

Life

Cerchio studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti . He was interested in experimental films and in 1936 caught the attention of film critics with the animated film Notturno . From 1937 he studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia with Alessandro Blasetti .

From 1938 Cerchio worked for the Istituto Luce , for which he produced several documentaries. The film Comacchio won awards in Venice and Paris. He began his career as a film editor, but his first major directorial work, the feature film Cenerentola (1948), for which he also wrote the screenplay, was a success. By 1972 more than thirty feature films were made, including Gente so based on a screenplay by Giovanni Guareschi and the crime film Il bivio . In addition, Cerchio made numerous documentaries until the mid-1950s.

Filmography

Documentaries

  • 1940: Carbonia
  • 1941: Fontana di Trevi
  • 1942: Ragazze sotto la tenda (with Enrico Fulchignoni )
  • 1942: Ritorno al Vittoriale
  • 1942: La scuola del cinema
  • 1942: Rifugi alpini
  • 1942: Comacchio
  • 1943: Artigiani fiorentini
  • 1946: Melodie d'Italia (Capri, Firenze, Roma, Napoli)
  • 1947: Il messaggio divino
  • 1947: Il cavaliere a Napoli
  • 1947: Ave Maria
  • 1947: Pascoli eterni
  • 1947: Tre tempi veneziani
  • 1947: Toscana eterna (with Raffaello Pacini )
  • 1949: Largo al factotum (con marionette)
  • 1949: Strada facendo
  • 1949: La città di Stendhal
  • 1949: Concerto nel parco
  • 1950: Cioccolato
  • 1950: Il natale degli zampognari
  • 1950: Gianduia a Torino
  • 1952: Storia del caffè
  • 1956-57: I pescatori
  • 1956-57: Noi cani
  • 1956–57: Sinfonia romana

Feature films

  • 1944: La buona fortuna
  • 1945: Porte chiuse
  • 1945: Aldo dice 26x1
  • 1946: Cenerentola
  • 1949: Gente so
  • 1950: Too late, Dr. Marcchi (Il bivio)
  • 1952: Il bandolero stanco
  • 1952: The sword of the musketeers (Il figlio di Lagardère)
  • 1953: Lulù
  • 1953: Addio, mia bella signora!
  • 1954: The Count and the Three Musketeers (Il visconte di Bragelonne)
  • 1955: I 4 del getto tonante
  • 1957: The Beast of Paris (I misteri di Parigi)
  • 1957: The Sheik's Son (Los amantes del desierto) (co-director)
  • 1958: La Venere di Cheronea (co-director)
  • 1959: Judith - The Sword of Vengeance (Giuditta e Oloferne)
  • 1960: The curse of the Pharaoh (Il sepolcro dei re)
  • 1961: Nefertiti - Queen of the Nile (Nefertite regina del Nilo)
  • 1962: Lord of the Desert (Lo sceicco rosso)
  • 1962: Totò contro Maciste
  • 1963: Totò e Cleopatra
  • 1963: Riding to freedom (Col ferro e col fuoco)
  • 1964: Totò contro il pirata nero
  • 1965: Per un dollaro di gloria
  • 1966: Segretissimo
  • 1967: Il marchio di Kriminal
  • 1969: The bounty killer pays the bill (La morte sull'alta collina)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 104
  2. ↑ Spanish versions of the film lead Cerchio; the film was directed by Alfredo Medori staged
personal data
SURNAME Cerchio, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian director, film editor, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Luserna San Giovanni
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1974
Place of death Mentana