Osvaldo Civirani

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Osvaldo Civirani (born May 19, 1917 in Rome , † February 20, 2008 there ) was an Italian cameraman , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Civirani, son of photographer Carlo Civirani, followed in his father's footsteps at an early age. As early as 1934 he received orders for the Cines Pittaluga to take photos of actors. After the studios were destroyed on September 25, 1935, Civirani began working as a still photographer for films. He spent his military service in a special unit responsible for film. After Italy entered the war, he was relocated to North Africa.

In 1941 Civirani returned to Rome and resumed his work as a film photographer; the Cinecittà , founded in 1937, offered him the opportunity to work on around 200 films in this capacity by 1966. In 1942 he had opened his own photography studio.

As a camera assistant, Civirani was booked for the first time at Luchino Visconti's Ossessione in the same year, using newly developed techniques for the first time in Italian film; in the following years he also worked in this capacity with Federico Fellini (1950 at Lichter des Varieté ) and Roberto Rossellini (including 1952 at The White Sheikh ).

1953 became president of the Italian Cameramen Association ( Associazione Italiana Fotografi Cinematogafici - AIFC).

His own 20 films between 1963 and 1976 were dedicated to the genre cinema, where Civirani made films with good craftsmanship in popular categories such as " sandals ", agent films and spaghetti westerns . Several times he was also responsible for slapstick-oriented films, in 1971 and 1972 alone he made five films with the duo Franco & Ciccio . His professional vita also includes a Mondo Erotico film such as Tentazioni Proibite from 1963, in which, ostensibly as a documentary , he takes a foray through European nightclubs - probably a (depending on the version 18 to 25 minutes) longer continuation of his debut film, which is also known as a documentary Sexy proibito from the same year.

Over the years, Civirani had founded various societies and firms to market his films. After finishing his active film career, he worked in the censorship office of the Ministerio di Turismo e di Spettacolo . In his later years he published two books of photographs. Several exhibitions were dedicated to his work.

Civirani had been married since February 1943; in the same year his son Walter was born. The marriage was divorced in 1972; the couple had been living apart since 1948. From an extramarital relationship he has a second son, Fabrizio (* 1964). In 1976 he married his second wife Flor in the Dominican Republic ; this marriage also failed.

Filmography

Director

  • 1963: Forbidden Women - Forbidden Nights (Sexy proibito)
  • 1964: Huasaca - Like deadly vultures (Ercole contro i figli di sole)
  • 1965: Mondo Erotico (Tentazioni proibite)
  • 1965: The secret of the red flower (Kindar l'invulnerabile)
  • 1966: Operation Poker - The Ballermann Story (Operazione poker)
  • 1966: Beckett Affaire (L'affare Beckett)
  • 1966: Kill, Ringo, kill (Uno sceriffo tutto d'oro)
  • 1967: Ric e Gian alla conquista del West (also book, camera, production)
  • 1967: The son of Django (Il figlio di Django)
  • 1968: Lucrezia Borgia - The Pope's Daughter (Lucrezia Borgia, l'amante del diavolo)
  • 1968: Django, where is your coffin? (T'ammazzo! ... Raccomandati a Dio)
  • 1969: The day on which God was not there (Quel giorno Dio non c'era)
  • 1970: Le Mans death runway (Le Mans scorciatoia per l'inferno)
  • 1971: Formula I and two scoundrels (I due della formula uno alla corsa più pazza pazza del mondo)
  • 1971: I due pezzi da novanta
  • 1971: The Diamond Lady (Il diavolo a sette facce)
  • 1972: Due gattoni a nove code… e mezza ad Amsterdam
  • 1972: The Sons of the Trinity (I 2 figli dei Trinità)
  • 1974: Il pavone nero
  • 1976: The girl with the coral skin (La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo)

Publications

  • 1995: Un fotografo a Cinecittà. Gremese.
  • 2003: Le donne dei sogni. Gremese

Web links and sources

personal data
SURNAME Civirani, Osvaldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director, cameraman, screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2008
Place of death Rome