Piero Vivarelli
Piero Vivarelli (born February 26, 1927 in Siena , † September 7, 2010 in Rome ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Life
Vivarelli joined the frogmen of the Italian army at the age of 17; In 1946 he was sentenced to prison for political reasons. From 1949 to 1990 he was a member of the KPI before joining the Cuban Communist Party .
Vivarelli began his professional career in 1950 as a screenwriter and in radio , where he developed the program La coppa del Jazz in 1960 ; he also worked as a lyricist for numerous songs a. a. by Adriano Celentano and was a member of the selection committee of the Sanremo Festival for five years . As early as the end of the 1950s, he had worked as an assistant director a. a. worked in musical comedies by Lucio Fulci and made his first film Sanremo, la grande sfida in 1960. He then devoted himself to commercial works of various genres , sometimes under the name Donald Murray . In 1978 he shot an autobiographical film with Nella misera in cui… and was seen as an actor several times from the 1980s.
His work since 1984 alternated between political and semi-pornographic projects.
His younger brother was the historian Roberto Vivarelli .
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1960: Sanremo, la grande sfida
- 1966: Mister X
- 1972: Africa-Erotica (Il Decamerone nero)
- 1979: Nella misera in cui ...
- 1989: Erotic Games (Eruption)
- 1998: La rumbera
script
- 1950: Amanti senza peccato
- 1956: The great sin (Suprema confessione)
- 1956: The Fool and the Dancer (I girovaghi)
- 1958: With fire and sword (Il cavaliere del castello maledetto)
- 1966: Django (Django)
- 1976: Black Emanuelle 2nd part (Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage)
- 1976: Black Emanuelle - Hours of Wild Lust (Emanuelle in America)
Web links
- Piero Vivarelli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Piero Vivarelli on MyMovies (Italian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ilmanifesto.it/il-manifesto/argomenti/numero/20100909/pagina/14/pezzo/286502/ ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 440
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vivarelli, Piero |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Murray, Donald (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siena |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 2010 |
| Place of death | Rome |