Giacomo Gentilomo

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Giacomo Gentilomo (born April 5, 1909 in Trieste , † April 16, 2001 in Rome ) was an Italian film director .

Life

Gentilomo came to Rome when he was still in school and initially worked as a set designer before turning to film. In this profession he began as a production employee and assistant editor for z. B. Nunzio Malasomma and Gennaro Righelli , later as assistant director for Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia . In 1939 he finally made his first film as a director, after directing the first short film to use the Technicolor process in Italy two years earlier . In 1945 he published the remarkable O sole mio , which mixed the elements of neorealism with the Neapolitan elements. Until 1963 he made a number of genre films, often melodramas; after finishing this career he turned to painting.

Films (selection)

  • 1946: Conspiracy against death and hell (Amanti in fuga)
  • 1950: One was too many (Atto di accusa)
  • 1951: miracle of a voice - Enrico Caruso (Enrico Caruso: leggenda di una voce)
  • 1952: The Blind of Sorrento (La cieca di Sorrento)
  • 1953: Eternal melody (melody immortali)
  • 1954: The beggar of Notre Dame (Le due orfanelle)
  • 1957: Siegfried - The legend of the Nibelungs (Sigfrido)
  • 1957: La trovatella di Pompei
  • 1958: Il cavaliere senza terra
  • 1961: Maciste 's greatest adventure (Maciste contro il vampiro)
  • 1961: The Last of the Vikings (L'ultimo dei Vikinghi)
  • 1962: The black riders of Tula (I lancieri neri)
  • 1963: Brenno, the barbarian (Brenno, il nemico di Roma)
  • 1963: Le verdi bandiere di Allah
  • 1964: Maciste e la regina di Samar

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registi. Rome, Gremese 2002, pp. 201/202
personal data
SURNAME Gentilomo, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2001
Place of death Rome