Augusto Genina

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Augusto Genina (born January 28, 1892 in Rome , Italy , † September 18, 1957 there ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Genina dropped out of engineering to write theater reviews for Il Mondo magazine . On the advice of Aldo De Benedetti , he drafted some film ideas and sent them to production companies; so began his film work in 1912 as a screenwriter for Ugo Falenas Romeo and Juliet (with Gustavo Serena and Francesca Bertini ). In the same year he also made his debut as assistant director for Falena; his first self-directed film was made in Spain in 1913. Numerous works followed; For example, he created a classic of Italian films , Cirano de Bergerac 1922. From 1927 to 1936 he also made ten films in Germany, several of which were productions by Nero-Film AG . Genina was also active in France and Austria. Important works such as Quartier Latin and Miss Europa (Prix de beauté) were created.

In 1936 Genina returned to his home country, where he directed the government-supporting Squadrone bianco and was also responsible for other propaganda films, including the one with a total of two other main prizes - the first was given by Squadrone bianco in 1936 - at the Venice Film Festival , the Coppa Mussolini , awarded L'assedio dell'Alcazar 1940 and Benghazi 1942, for whose scripts he was also responsible.

After the war, Genina was quiet for a few years before he returned behind the camera in 1949 with the film adaptation of Maria Goretti's story , Cielo sulla palude . His other films are of little interest.

His cousin was the director Mario Camerini . He was in a relationship with the actress Carmen Boni for a long time , but eventually married Betty Becker.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1915: Gelosia
  • 1917: Eldflugan (Lucciola)
  • 1919: Lucrezia Borgia
  • 1920: The woman and the corpse (La donna e il cadavere)
  • 1922: Cyrano from Bergerac (Cirano di Bergerac)
  • 1925: Mother, forgive me (Il focolare spento)
  • 1927: The white slave
  • 1927: The prisoner of Shanghai
  • 1927: The leap into happiness
  • 1928: The girl on the street
  • 1928: Love Carnival
  • 1928: Latin Quarter
  • 1930: Miss Europe (Prix de beauté)
  • 1931: sins at midnight
  • 1935: Don't forget mine
  • 1936: Flowers from Nice
  • 1936: The white squadron (Lo squadrone bianco)
  • 1937: Women's love - women's suffering
  • 1937: Nights in Naples (Naples au baiser de feu)
  • 1939: Into the blue life (Castelli in aria)
  • 1940: Alkazar (L'assedio dell'Alcazar)
  • 1942: Benghazi
  • 1949: Heaven over the swamps (Maria Goretti) (Cielo sulla palude)
  • 1951: The Passionate One (L'edera)
  • 1952: Uninhibited - three forbidden stories (Tre storie proibite)
  • 1954: Magdalena - Diary of a Lost Woman (Maddalena)
  • 1955: Frou-Frou, the Parisian (Frou-Frou)

literature

  • 1989: Sergio Grmek Germani, Vittorio Martinelli: Il cinema di Augusto Genina. Edizioni biblioteca dell'immagine, Udine.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 200/201
personal data
SURNAME Genina, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1957
Place of death Rome , Italy