Giovanni Fago

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Giovanni Fago (born April 25, 1933 in Rome ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

After completing a law degree at La Sapienza University in Rome, Fago attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia from 1956 to 1958 . Before that, he worked as an assistant director in the film industry in 1955, as he did until 1967 . In this role he worked for commercial productions, often at the side of Lucio Fulci . From 1967 he directed himself; Here too, routine genre reproductions were in the foreground. The most important of them is probably O'Cangaçeiro , a revolutionary film set in Brazil with Tomás Milián in the lead role. From the late 1970s, he filmed some interesting stories for Italian television. After a long break, he directed for the big screen again in 2000 and again three years later.

Occasionally he wrote scripts for other people's films and appeared as an actor. His younger brother is Amedeo Fago . One of Fago's pseudonyms is Sidney Lean .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1967: Django - the bastard (Per 100,000 dollar t'ammazzo) (as Sidney Lean )
  • 1968: Django - melody in lead (Uno di più all'inferno)
  • 1969: Viva Cangaceiro (O'Cangaçeiro)
  • 1974: At the hands of the child murderer (Fatevi vivi: la polizia non interverrà)
  • 1988: Mask of Death (Série noire: Tu crois pas si bien dire ) (TV movie)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.celluloidportraits.com/biografia.php?id=60
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 166
personal data
SURNAME Fago, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lean, Sidney (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome