Paolo Cavara

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Paolo Cavara (born July 4, 1926 in Bologna , † August 7, 1982 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Cavara began working in film as a documentarist in the 1950s; around 40 of his films are known from this period. In 1958 he was assistant director to Henry Koster and then worked with Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi on two Mondo films , where he contributed many documentary-looking recordings; an approach that he self-critically processed in his first feature film in 1967, the self-produced Das Wilde Auge . In the following years and his later films he turned to more commercial subjects and was able to celebrate great audiences with his two Gialli La tarantola del ventre nero and È tanta paure . In the last years of his life he devoted himself to television work and wrote two screenplays for other films.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1961: Mondo Cane (Mondo cane) (co-director)
  • 1963: All the women of this world (La donna nel mondo) (co-director)
  • 1967: The Wild Eye (L'occhio selvaggia)
  • 1969: A breath of love (La cattura)
  • 1971: The black body of the tarantula (La tarantola del ventre nero)
  • 1972: A Song of Murder and Manslaughter (Los amigos)
  • 1974: Virilità
  • 1976: Magnum 45 (È tanta paura)
  • 1981: Mirandolina (La locandiera)

Web links

script

  • Pietro Cavara, Ricordo di un padre: Paolo Cavara, regista gentiluomo , Aracne ed. 2014; Cinemasessanta 2002 (I, II, III, IV)
  • Fabrizio Fogliato, Paolo Cavara. Gli occchi che raccontano il mondo , Il Foglio Letterario 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi, Gremese 2002, p. 102
personal data
SURNAME Cavara, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1982
Place of death Rome