Nino Oxilia
Nino Oxilia (actually Angelo Agostino Adolfo Oxilia , born November 13, 1889 in Turin , † November 18, 1917 at Monte Grappa ) was an Italian film director and author.
Life
In 1911 Oxilia wrote the tragicomic student play Addio, Giovinezza! Together with Sandro Camasio . . The great success of the play brought him an offer from the Savoia Film Company to film it. With his fiancée, the actress Maria Jacobini employed by the film company , he made about a dozen films in 1912/13. From 1914 Oxilia worked for Cines and for Celio Film and made several films there with the diva Pina Menichelli in 1914/15 . The historical melodrama Sangue Blu (1914) with Francesca Bertini was also directed under Oxilia's direction . Oxilia's film Rapsodia satanica, made in 1915 and premiered in 1917 with Lyda Borelli in the lead role, is one of the most important representatives of the so-called “tail coat cinema”, the melodramas set in the salons of high society.
Nino Oxilia went to the First World War as a volunteer and fell in the first battle of the Piave on Monte Grappa in 1917 .
The song with the title "Commiato" contained in the piece Addio, Giovinezza found its way into the Italian military with its catchy melody composed by Giuseppe Blanc and about a decade later with changed lyrics but unchanged refrain under the short title Giovinezza finally became the party anthem of Mussolini's Partito Nazionale Fascista .
Filmography
- 1913: Il focolare domestico
- 1913: Addio giovinezza!
- 1913: Il cadavere vivente
- 1913: Il velo d'Iside
- 1913: In this sign you will win!
- 1914: The Princess of Monte Cabello (Sangue Blu)
- 1914: Il focolare domestico
- 1914: La monella
- 1914: L'ammiraglia
- 1914: Retaggio d'odio
- 1914: Veli di giovinezza
- 1915: Ananke
- 1915: Il sottomarino n.27
- 1915: Nella fornace
- 1915: Papà
- 1916: Odio che ride
- 1917: Dalla ritirata d'Albania alle trincee di Macedonia
- 1917: L'uomo in frak
- 1917: Rhapsody of Satan (Rapsodia satanica)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Nino oxilia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rapsodia Satanica on ARTE
- Corrado Abbati on N. Oxilia, S. Camasio and Addio, Giovinezza! (Italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oxilia, Nino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oxilia, Angelo Agostino Adolfo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1917 |
| Place of death | Monte Grappa |