Massimo Terzano
Massimo Terzano (born April 23, 1892 in Turin , Italy , † October 18, 1947 in Rome ) was an Italian cameraman with two forays into documentary film direction.
Life
Terzano, a pioneer of the domestic silent film, received his practical, professional training at the production company Ambrosio Film in his hometown Turin and learned his camera trade under the camera veteran Angelo Scalenghe . In 1914 Terzano was hired as a cameraman by the Turin film company Gloria Films. Only interrupted by his military service from 1916 to 1918, Terzano shot hundreds of films from then on, especially in Rome during the time of Mussolini's fascism. For a good three decades, Terzano has been behind the camera in virtually all common genre productions, several costume and period films, but also Edelschnulzen, dramas and melodramas.
His first major audience successes came with a few films about the ancient muscle man Maciste in the mid-1920s. With Walter Ruttmann's semi-documentary workers ' drama “ Acciaio ” , Terzano was also able to shoot an artistically ambitious film for the first time. Terzano worked with virtually all the renowned directors of the Mussolini era: from Carmine Gallone to Augusto Genina and Mario Camerini to Mario Soldati , Mario Bonnard and Gennaro Righelli . In 1940 he photographed his only purely German production in an Italian studio with the Jenny Jugo comedy “ Our Fraulein Doctor ”. Five years later, Terzano was one of the first Italian filmmakers who once worked privileged under fascism, who suddenly turned 180 degrees when he was one of several cameramen photographing the anti-fascist resistance documentary " Glorious Days ".
Filmography
- 1914: Altri tempi
- 1915: I cavalieri delle tenebre
- 1915: Ombre umane
- 1915: Il principe folle
- 1916: La ballata dei fiori
- 1916: In mano al destino
- 1919: Casa di bambola
- 1919: L'avventura di Fracassa
- 1919: Lotte di giganti
- 1920: Atlas
- 1920: La corsa al sepolcro
- 1921: Il bacio nel deserto
- 1921: Il viaggio
- 1922: La casa sotto la neve
- 1922: L'inafferabile
- 1923: Dall'Italia all'Equatore (documentary, also director)
- 1924: Saetta impara a vivere!
- 1924: Maciste Imperator ( Maciste imperatore )
- 1925: Maciste in Hell ( Maciste all'inferno )
- 1925: The great circus disaster ( Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni )
- 1926: Maciste, the hero of the mountains ( Il gigante delle Dolomite )
- 1927: Il carnevale di Venezia
- 1927: I martiri d'Italia
- 1928: La compagnia dei matti
- 1928: Giuditta e Oloferne
- 1928: The Exiles ( Gli ultimi Zar )
- 1929: Paradiso bianco (documentary, also director)
- 1930: La canzone dell'amore
- 1930: Corte d'Assise
- 1930: Il cortile
- 1931: Vele ammainate
- 1931: Rubacuori
- 1932: La cantante dell'opera
- 1932: Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
- 1933: work makes you happy ( Acciaio )
- 1933: Fanny
- 1933: Giallo
- 1933: Ragazzo
- 1934: Come le foglie
- 1934: Stadio
- 1934: Il capello a tre punte
- 1935: Aldebaran
- 1935: Darò un milione
- 1935: Casta Diva
- 1936: The big roll call ( Il grande appello )
- 1936: The man who cannot say "no" ( Ma non è una cosa seria )
- 1936: The white squadron ( Lo squadrone bianco )
- 1937: Il dottor Antonio
- 1937: Mutterlied ( Solo per te )
- 1938: Rival of the Tsarina ( Tarakanova )
- 1938: Inventiamo l'amore
- 1938: Three women around Verdi ( Giuseppe Verdi )
- 1939: Santuzza ( Cavalleria Rusticana )
- 1939: Le sorprese del divorzio
- 1940: Kean
- 1940: Boccaccio
- 1940: Captain Orlando ( Il ponte dei sospiri )
- 1940: Our Miss Doctor
- 1941: The pistol shot ( Il colpi di pistola )
- 1941: Tragica notte
- 1941: Capitan Tempesta
- 1942: Malombra
- 1942: Zazà
- 1944: La freccia nel fianco
- 1944: Due lettere anonime
- 1945: Days of Glory ( Giorni di Gloria ) (documentary)
- 1945: Storm Night ( Notte di tempesta )
- 1945: Le miserie del signor Travet
- 1946: Cronaca nera
- 1946: L'angelo e il diavolo
- 1947: Il barbiere di Siviglia
literature
- FIAF (ed.): Direttori di Fotografia, Scenografi i Costumisti des Cinema Italiano, Munich 1988. p. 375
Web links
- Massimo Terzano in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Terzano, Massimo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cameraman with two forays into documentary filmmaking |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1947 |
| Place of death | Rome |