Giovanni Vitrotti
Giovanni Bernardo Filippo Vitrotti (born November 16, 1882 in Turin , Italy , † December 1, 1966 in Rome , Italy) was an Italian cameraman , an extremely creative pioneer of European cinematography.
Live and act
After completing his photography training and working as a photographer, Vitrotti joined the Turin-based production company Ambrosio-Film at the end of 1905 and was immediately hired as a cameraman. Until 1914, Vitrotti photographed around a hundred short films, usually only a few minutes. From 1909 to 1911 Vitrotti was also able to make films in Tsarist Russia , where he owned a house. In Tbilisi and the Caucasus , the native of Turin photographed both documentary films, for example around Mount Kazbek , on the Persian border and Mount Ararat , as well as those with games. Vitrotti was also the director of several films before the outbreak of World War I.
In 1914 he founded his own production company, the Leonardo-Film. Only sporadically active behind the camera during the war, Giovanni Vitrotti returned to Ambrosio-Film in 1919, but left Italy two years later to go to Germany with the Italian silent film star Luciano Albertini and continue his work as a cameraman there. The German films he photographed, often starring Italians like Albertini, Bartolomeo Pagano and Carlo Aldini , were largely of secondary importance. In 1923 Vitrotti was allowed to photograph Emil Jannings when he came to Rome to be featured in the first major film adaptation of the antique epic “ Quo Vadis? " The Nero to embody. After his camera work (together with Sepp Allgeier and Albert Benitz ) on Luis Trenker's Dolomite drama Mountains in Flames , which played during the First World War , Vitrotti finally returned home to Italy.
The Italian sound film gave the camera veteran only sporadic orders, often for films with little substance. With the fall of the Mussolini regime in 1943, Vitrotti's film career was largely over. Ten years later he shot his last feature film, after which he retired into private life. His brother Giuseppe Paolo Vitrotti, who was eight years his junior, also worked as a cameraman.
Filmography
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literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 192.
Web links
- Giovanni Vitrotti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Giovanni Vitrotti at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ IMDb mentions May 1, 1874
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vitrotti, Giovanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vitrotti, Giovanni Bernardo Filippo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 1966 |
| Place of death | Rome , Italy |