Luigi Russo (director, 1931)

Luigi Russo (born May 4, 1931 in Sanremo , † April 8, 2014 in Bracciano ) was an Italian screenwriter , film director and film editor .

Life

Russo started out in the film business when he was twenty and played a handful of supporting roles. At the beginning of the 1970s he was then in demand as a screenwriter for dekameronesque and other erotic-comic material before making his debut as a director in 1974 with similar material. In doing so, he tested the limits of pornography a few times with properly crafted technology . He edited his works, sometimes shot under a pseudonym (several times as John Wilder ), and from time to time he was also responsible for the camerawork. After 1990 he retired.

In addition to his filmmaking activities, Russo, who was married to actress Mariangela Gallo , worked as a painter.

There is an actor and director of the same name , born in 1970.

Filmography (selection)

script

• 1971: Decameron - the adventure of lust (Decameron n. 2… Le altre novelle del Boccaccio…)

Direction, screenplay, editing

• 1974: I sette magnifichi cornuti
• 1979: The Sexbomber (Pensione Amore servizio completo) (& camera)
• 1982: Die Trauminsel (Due gocce d'acqua salata) (as Johnny Wilder)
• 1989: Alone and delivered (Una donna senza nome) (& camera)
• 1989: Le diaboliche (& camera)

cut

• 1980: Patriot without a fatherland (L'ebreo fascista)

Web links

• Luigi Russo in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, pp. 375/376
2. ^ Sanremo: ex attrice e modella nel suo orto di San Giovanni dove coltiva anche il grano. In: sanremonews.it. June 27, 2012, accessed March 1, 2019 (Italian). 
3. ^ Luigi Russo (II). In: mymovies.it. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (Italian).