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Trieste
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Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea and Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city. It is also located near Croatia some further 30 kilometres south, Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste and throughout history it has been influenced by its location at the crossroads of Latin, Slavic, and Germanic cultures. In 2009, it had a population of about 205,000 and it is the capital of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trieste was one of the oldest parts of the Habsburg Monarchy. In the 19th century, it was the most important port of one of the Great Powers of Europe, as a prosperous seaport in the Mediterranean region, Trieste became the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the fin de siècle period at the end of the 19th century it emerged as an important hub for literature, Trieste underwent an economic revival during the 1930s, and Trieste was an important spot in the struggle between the Eastern and Western blocs after the Second World War. Today, the city is in one of the richest regions of Italy, Roman authors also transliterated the name as Tergestum. Modern names of the city include, Italian, Trieste, Slovene, Trst, German, Triest, Hungarian, Trieszt, Croatian, Trst, Serbian, Трст/Trst, Trieste lies in the northernmost part of the high Adriatic in northeastern Italy, near the border with Slovenia. The city lies on the Gulf of Trieste, built mostly on a hillside that becomes a mountain, Triestes urban territory lies at the foot of an imposing escarpment that comes down abruptly from the Karst Plateau towards the sea. The karst landforms close to the city reach an elevation of 458 metres above sea level and it lies on the borders of the Italian geographical region, the Balkan Peninsula, and the Mitteleuropa. The territory of Trieste is composed of different climate zones depending on the distance from the sea. The average temperatures are 5.4 °C in January and 23.3 °C in July, the climatic setting of the city is humid subtropical climate. On average, humidity levels are low, while only two months receive slightly less than 60 mm of precipitation. Trieste along with the Istrian peninsula has evenly distributed rainfall above 1,000 mm in total, snow occurs on average 0 –2 days per year. Temperatures are very mild - lows below zero are somewhat rare, winter maxima are lower than in typical Mediterranean zone with quite high minima. Summer is very warm with maxima about 28 °C and lows above 20 °C, the absolute maximum of the last fifty years is 37.2 °C in 2003, whereas the absolute minimum is −14.6 °C in 1956. Since the second millennium BC, the location was an inhabited site, originally an Illyrian settlement, the Veneti entered the region in the 10th-9th c. BC and seem to have given the town its name, Tergeste, still later, the town was later captured by the Carni, a tribe of the Eastern Alps, before becoming part of the Roman republic in 177 BC during the Istrian War
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Kingdom of Italy
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The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state. Italy declared war on Austria in alliance with Prussia in 1866, Italian troops entered Rome in 1870, ending more than one thousand years of Papal temporal power. Italy entered into a Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1882, victory in the war gave Italy a permanent seat in the Council of the League of Nations. Fascist Italy is the era of National Fascist Party rule from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as head of government, according to Payne, Fascist regime passed through several relatively distinct phases. The first phase was nominally a continuation of the parliamentary system, then came the second phase, the construction of the Fascist dictatorship proper from 1925 to 1929. The third phase, with activism, was 1929–34. The war itself was the phase with its disasters and defeats. Italy was allied with Nazi Germany in World War II until 1943 and it switched sides to the Allies after ousting Mussolini and shutting down the Fascist party in areas controlled by the Allied invaders. Shortly after the war, civil discontent led to the referendum of 1946 on whether Italy would remain a monarchy or become a republic. Italians decided to abandon the monarchy and form the Italian Republic, the Kingdom of Italy claimed all of the territory which is modern-day Italy. The development of the Kingdoms territory progressed under Italian re-unification until 1870, the state for a long period of time did not include Trieste or Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, which are in Italy today, and only annexed them in 1919. After the Second World War, the borders of present-day Italy were founded, the Kingdom of Italy was theoretically a constitutional monarchy. Executive power belonged to the monarch, as executed through appointed ministers, two chambers of parliament restricted the monarchs power—an appointive Senate and an elective Chamber of Deputies. The kingdoms constitution was the Statuto Albertino, the governing document of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In theory, ministers were responsible to the king. However, in practice, it was impossible for an Italian government to stay in office without the support of Parliament, members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected by plurality voting system elections in uninominal districts. A candidate needed the support of 50% of those voting, and of 25% of all enrolled voters, if not all seats were filled on the first ballot, a runoff was held shortly afterwards for the remaining vacancies. After a brief multinominal experimentation in 1882, proportional representation into large, regional, Socialists became the major party, but they were unable to form a government in a parliament split into three different factions, with Christian Populists and classical liberals
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Rome
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Rome is a special comune and the capital of Italy. Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region, with 2,873,598 residents in 1,285 km2, it is also the countrys largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the center of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents, the city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio, along the shores of the Tiber. Romes history spans more than 2,500 years, while Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at only around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. The citys early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans and it was first called The Eternal City by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy. Rome is also called the Caput Mundi, due to that, Rome became first one of the major centres of the Italian Renaissance, and then the birthplace of both the Baroque style and Neoclassicism. Famous artists, painters, sculptors and architects made Rome the centre of their activity, in 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic. Rome has the status of a global city, Rome ranked in 2014 as the 14th-most-visited city in the world, 3rd most visited in the European Union, and the most popular tourist attraction in Italy. Its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are among the worlds most visited tourist destinations with both locations receiving millions of tourists a year. Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics and is the seat of United Nations Food, however, it is a possibility that the name Romulus was actually derived from Rome itself. As early as the 4th century, there have been alternate theories proposed on the origin of the name Roma. There is archaeological evidence of occupation of the Rome area from approximately 14,000 years ago. Evidence of stone tools, pottery and stone weapons attest to about 10,000 years of human presence, several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. Between the end of the age and the beginning of the Iron age. However, none of them had yet an urban quality, nowadays, there is a wide consensus that the city was gradually born through the aggregation of several villages around the largest one, placed above the Palatine. All these happenings, which according to the excavations took place more or less around the mid of the 8th century BC. Despite recent excavations at the Palatine hill, the view that Rome has been indeed founded with an act of will as the legend suggests in the middle of the 8th century BC remains a fringe hypothesis. Traditional stories handed down by the ancient Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth
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Italy
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino, Italy covers an area of 301,338 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate. Due to its shape, it is referred to in Italy as lo Stivale. With 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous EU member state, the Italic tribe known as the Latins formed the Roman Kingdom, which eventually became a republic that conquered and assimilated other nearby civilisations. The legacy of the Roman Empire is widespread and can be observed in the distribution of civilian law, republican governments, Christianity. The Renaissance began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe, bringing a renewed interest in humanism, science, exploration, Italian culture flourished at this time, producing famous scholars, artists and polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo and Machiavelli. The weakened sovereigns soon fell victim to conquest by European powers such as France, Spain and Austria. Despite being one of the victors in World War I, Italy entered a period of economic crisis and social turmoil. The subsequent participation in World War II on the Axis side ended in defeat, economic destruction. Today, Italy has the third largest economy in the Eurozone and it has a very high level of human development and is ranked sixth in the world for life expectancy. The country plays a prominent role in regional and global economic, military, cultural and diplomatic affairs, as a reflection of its cultural wealth, Italy is home to 51 World Heritage Sites, the most in the world, and is the fifth most visited country. The assumptions on the etymology of the name Italia are very numerous, according to one of the more common explanations, the term Italia, from Latin, Italia, was borrowed through Greek from the Oscan Víteliú, meaning land of young cattle. The bull was a symbol of the southern Italic tribes and was often depicted goring the Roman wolf as a defiant symbol of free Italy during the Social War. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus, mentioned also by Aristotle and Thucydides. The name Italia originally applied only to a part of what is now Southern Italy – according to Antiochus of Syracuse, but by his time Oenotria and Italy had become synonymous, and the name also applied to most of Lucania as well. The Greeks gradually came to apply the name Italia to a larger region, excavations throughout Italy revealed a Neanderthal presence dating back to the Palaeolithic period, some 200,000 years ago, modern Humans arrived about 40,000 years ago. Other ancient Italian peoples of undetermined language families but of possible origins include the Rhaetian people and Cammuni. Also the Phoenicians established colonies on the coasts of Sardinia and Sicily, the Roman legacy has deeply influenced the Western civilisation, shaping most of the modern world
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
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The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Serbian language, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two used to write standard modern Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin, the other being Latin. During the same period, Croatian linguists led by Ljudevit Gaj adapted the Latin alphabet, in use in western South Slavic areas, using the same principles. As a result of this joint effort, Cyrillic and Latin alphabets for Serbo-Croatian have a complete one-to-one congruence, with the Latin digraphs Lj, Nj, and Dž counting as single letters. Vuks Cyrillic alphabet was adopted in Serbia in 1868, and was in exclusive use in the country up to the inter-war period. Both alphabets were co-official in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and later in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in Serbia, Cyrillic is seen as being more traditional, and has the official status. It is also a script in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, along with Latin. The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was used as a basis for the Macedonian alphabet with the work of Krste Misirkov, Cyrillic is in official use in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Serbian language in Croatia is officially recognized as a minority language, however, Cyrillic is an important symbol of Serbian identity. In Serbia, official documents are printed in Cyrillic only even though, according to a 2014 survey, Glagolitic appears to be older, predating the introduction of Christianity, only formalized by Cyril and expanded to cover non-Greek sounds. Cyrillic was created by the orders of Boris I of Bulgaria by Cyrils disciples, the earliest form of Cyrillic was the ustav, based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. There was no distinction between capital and lowercase letters, the literary Slavic language was based on the Bulgarian dialect of Thessaloniki. Part of the Serbian literary heritage of the Middle Ages are works such as Vukan Gospels, St. Savas Nomocanon, Dušans Code, Munich Serbian Psalter, the first printed book in Serbian was the Cetinje Octoechos. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić fled Serbia during the Serbian Revolution in 1813, there he met Jernej Kopitar, a linguist with interest in slavistics. Kopitar and Sava Mrkalj helped Vuk to reform the Serbian language and he finalized the alphabet in 1818 with the Serbian Dictionary. Karadžić also translated the New Testament into Serbian, which was published in 1868 and he wrote several books, Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pesnarica and Pismenica serbskoga jezika in 1814, and two more in 1815 and 1818, all with the alphabet still in progress. In his letters from 1815-1818 he used, Ю, я, Ы and Ѳ, in his 1815 song book he dropped the Ѣ. The alphabet was adopted in 1868, four years after his death
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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Exploitation film
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An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality B movies, even so, they sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Some of these films, such as Night of the Living Dead, set trends, Exploitation films may feature suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem. Such films were first seen in their form in the early 1920s. Their producers used sensational elements to attract audiences lost to television, since the 1990s, this genre has also received attention in academic circles, where it is sometimes called paracinema. Exploitation is very defined, and has more to do with the viewers perception of the film than with the films actual content. Titillating material and artistic content often coexist, as demonstrated by the fact that art films that failed to pass the Hays Code were often shown in the same grindhouses as exploitation films. Exploitation films share the fearlessness of acclaimed transgressive European directors such as Derek Jarman, Luis Buñuel, buñuels Un Chien Andalou contains elements of the modern splatter film. The audiences of art and exploitation film are considered to have tastes that reject the mainstream Hollywood offerings. Exploitation films have often exploited news events in the public consciousness that a major film studio may avoid because of the time required to produce a major film. Child Bride, for example, tackled the issue of older men marrying very young women in the Ozarks, other issues, such as drug use in films like Reefer Madness, attracted audiences that major film studios would usually avoid in order to keep their respectable, mainstream reputations. With enough incentive, however, major studios might become involved, as Warner Bros. did in their 1969 anti-LSD, the film Sex Madness portrayed the dangers of venereal disease from premarital sex. Mom and Dad, a 1945 film about pregnancy and childbirth, was promoted in lurid terms and she Shoulda Said No. combined the themes of drug use and promiscuous sex. Several war films were made about the Winter War in Finland, the Korean War, some Poverty Row low-budget B movies often exploit major studio projects. Their rapid production schedule allows them to advantage of publicity attached to major studio films. For example, Edward L. Ulmers film Beyond the Time Barrier, as a result, many major studios, producers, and stars keep their projects secret. Grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films and it is thought to stem from the defunct burlesque theaters on 42nd Street, New York, where bump n grind dancing and striptease used to be on the bill. As the drive-in movie theater began to decline in the 1960s and 1970s, One solution was to book exploitation films
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Serbs
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The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group that formed in the Balkans. The majority of Serbs inhabit the state of Serbia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina. They form significant minorities in Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia, there is a large Serb diaspora in Western Europe, and outside Europe there are significant communities in North America and Australia. The Serbs share many traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion, the Serbian language is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the majority in Montenegro. The modern identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions, in the 19th century, the Serbian national identity was manifested, with awareness of history and tradition, medieval heritage, cultural unity, despite living under different empires. When the Principality of Serbia gained independence from the Ottoman Empire, Orthodoxy became crucial in defining the national identity, instead of language which was shared by other South Slavs. The tradition of slava, the family saint feast day, is an important ethnic marker of Serb identity, the origin of the ethnonym is unclear. Serbia has among the tallest people in the world, after Montenegro and Netherlands, Slavs invaded and settled the Balkans in the 6th and 7th centuries. Up until the late 560s their activity was raiding, crossing from the Danube, the Danube and Sava frontier was overwhelmed by large-scale Slavic settlement in the late 6th and early 7th century. What is today central Serbia was an important geo-strategical province, through which the Via Militaris crossed and this area was frequently intruded by barbarians in the 5th and 6th centuries. The numerous Slavs mixed with and assimilated the descendants of the indigenous population, numerous small Serbian states were created, located in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia. With the decline of the Serbian state of Duklja in the late 11th century, Raška separated from it, prince Stefan Nemanja conquered the neighbouring territories of Kosovo, Duklja and Zachlumia. The Nemanjić dynasty ruled over Serbia until the 14th century, over the next 140 years, Serbia expanded its borders. Its cultural model remained Byzantine, despite political ambitions directed against the empire, the medieval power and influence of Serbia culminated in the reign of Stefan Dušan, who ruled the state from 1331 until his death in 1355. Ruling as Emperor from 1346, his territory included Macedonia, northern Greece, Montenegro, when Dušan died, his son Stephen Uroš V became Emperor. With the death of two important Serb leaders in the battle, and with the death of Stephen Uroš that same year, hrebeljanović was subsequently accepted as the titular leader of the Serbs because he was married to a member of the Nemanjić dynasty. In 1389, the Serbs faced the Ottomans at the Battle of Kosovo on the plain of Kosovo Polje, both Lazar and Sultan Murad I were killed in the fighting
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Mario Bava
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Mario Bava was an Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist, and cinematographer from the golden age of Italian horror films. His work kick-started the giallo genre and the modern slasher film. His son Lamberto Bava later went on to become a horror film director in his own right. Mario Bava was born in San Remo, Liguria on 31 July 1914 and he was the son of Eugenio Bava, a sculptor who also worked as a special effects photographer and cameraman in the Italian silent movie industry. Mario Bavas first ambition was to become a painter, unable to turn out paintings at a profitable rate, he went into his fathers business, working as an assistant to other Italian cinematographers like Massimo Terzano. He also helped his father at the effects department at Benito Mussolinis film factory. Bava became a cinematographer in his own right in 1939, shooting two films with Roberto Rossellini. He made his debut in the early 1940s. Bavas camerawork was a factor in developing the screen personas of such stars of the period as Gina Lollobrigida, Steve Reeves. Bava completed filming I vampiri for director Riccardo Freda in 1956, Bava co-directed The Day the Sky Exploded in 1958, the first Italian science fiction film, predating even the sci-fi films of Antonio Margheriti. Because he had no earlier credited experience as a director, the film was credited solely to Paolo Heusch, in 1960, Bava directed the gothic horror classic Black Sunday, his first solo directorial effort, which made a genre star out of Barbara Steele. His use of light and dark in black-and-white films is widely acclaimed along with his use of color in films such as Black Sabbath, Kill. Blood and Black Lace and The Whip and the Body and his work has proved very influential. Bava directed what is now regarded as the earliest of the Italian giallo films, The Girl Who Knew Too Much and Blood and his 1965 sci-fi/ horror film Planet of the Vampires was a thematic precursor to Alien. Although comic books had served as the basis for countless serials and childrens films in Hollywood, Bavas Danger, many elements of his 1966 film Kill, Baby. Regarded by Martin Scorsese as Bavas masterpiece, also appear in the Asian strain of terror film known as J-horror, 1971s A Bay of Blood is considered one of the earliest slasher films, and was explicitly imitated in Friday the 13th Part 2. Mario Bava was very disappointed with the distribution of some of his later films. His Lisa and the Devil was never picked up by a distributor, in 1977, Bava directed his last horror film, Shock, which was co-directed with his son Lamberto Bava who did the work uncredited
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Planet of the Vampires
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Planet of the Vampires is a 1965 Italian/Spanish science fiction horror film, produced by Fulvio Lucisano, directed by Mario Bava, that stars Barry Sullivan and Norma Bengell. American International Pictures released the film as the feature on a double bill with Daniel Hallers Die, Monster. The story follows the experiences of the crew members of two giant spaceships that have crash landed on a forbidding, unexplored planet. The disembodied inhabitants of the world possess the bodies of the crew who died during the crash, the film was co-produced by AIP and Italian International Film, with some financing provided by Spains Castilla Cooperativa Cinematográfica. Ib Melchior and Louis M. Heyward are credited with the script for the AIP English-language release version, years after its release, some critics have suggested that Bavas film was a major influence on Ridley Scotts Alien and Prometheus, in both narrative details and visual design. Two huge interplanetary ships on an expedition into deep uncharted space receive a distress signal emanating from Aura, both ships, the Galliott and the Argos, attempt to land on the surface of the fog-encased world. While entering the atmosphere, the crew of the Argos becomes possessed by an unknown force. Only Captain Markary has the will to resist, and is able to all of the others aboard his ship out of their hypnotic. After the Argos lands on the surface, the crew disembarks, thick, pulsating mists, lit by ever-shifting eerie colors, saturate the terrain. When they finally arrive at the ship, they find that the crew members have killed each other. Markarys younger brother, Toby, is among the dead and they proceed to bury as many of the corpses as they can, but several bodies are locked inside the ships bridge. Markary departs to get tools for opening the room. Some of the Argos crew are found dead, Tiona sees their corpses walking in the ship, and becomes paralyzed with fear. Markary advises the survivors that they must escape from Aura, unfortunately, the Argos incurred serious damage during the landing, and repairs will take time. During the waiting period that ensues, several more killings occur, in a private tape recording, Markary admits that he suspects none of them will survive. While exploring Aura, Wes discovers the ruins of a spaceship a few miles from the Argos. Inside the ship, they discover large skeletal remains of the dead crew. Markary and Sanya are temporarily trapped inside the ship, but manage to escape, two crew members of the Galliott, Kier and Sallis, arrive at the Argos to steal the ships Meteor Rejector device
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key is a 1972 giallo film directed by Sergio Martino. The picture stars Edwige Fenech, Luigi Pistilli, and Anita Strindberg, the film uses many elements from Edgar Allan Poes short story The Black Cat, and acknowledges this influence in the films opening credits. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key was Martinos fourth giallo film. The title of the film is a reference to his first one, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, the victim in that film was played by Fenech. The film has released under several alternate titles, including Gently Before She Dies, Eye of the Black Cat. Oliviero Rouvigny, a writer and an alcoholic, lives in a crumbling mansion with his wife Irina, who is scared of Olivieros cat, Satan. To fight boredom, Oliviero organizes decadent parties for local hippies and humiliates and abuses Irina in front of the guests, after his mistress, a young student, is found murdered, Oliviero becomes the primary suspect. When he finds their dead on the premises, he decides to conceal it to avoid further suspicions. With no-one knowing the identity of the murderer, Olivieros paranoia builds and leads to abuse of Irina. Then Olivieros niece Floriana suddenly arrives for a visit, Irina finds comfort in Florianas arms and bed, and the two decide to find a way to deal with Oliviero. After Irina kills Oliviero with scissors, Floriana reveals that she has been after the jewelry that Oliviero had stashed in the mansion, Irina humbly gives her the jewelry and the two part ways. However, Irina also had a plan of her own and she turns to Walter, Walter kills Floriana and her boyfriend making it look like an accident. Later, Irina pushes Walter off a cliff to have the jewelry all for herself, when Irina returns to the mansion, she finds the police there. An old woman had filed a complaint for animal cruelty, as she had seen Irina stabbing Satan, inside the mansion, the police officers notice that the cat seems to be mewing in agony inside a wall. As they tear down the wall, they discover the cat and your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key at AllMovie
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Umberto Lenzi
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Umberto Lenzi was born on June 8,1931 in the Massa Marittima province of Italy. Lenzi was a film enthusiast as early as grade school, while studying law, Lenzi also created film fan clubs. Lenzi eventually put off studying law and began pursuing the arts of filmmaking. He enrolled in Romes Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografica in 1956 and made the short I ragazzi di Trastevere as a final exam, Lenzi also worked as a journalist for various newspapers and magazines, including Bianco e Nero. Prior to what his officially first credited film as a director, Queen of the Seas, Lenzis films of the 1960s revolved around popular genres of their respective time periods. Lenzi adapted himself to making war films such as Desert Commandos and Legion of the Damned and Westerns such as Pistol for a Hundred Coffins, Lenzi had box office successes in Italy with his erotic thrillers starring Carroll Baker such as Orgasmo, So Sweet. So Perverse and A Quiet Place to Kill which were influenced by French film noir movies drawing from the works of Jacques Deray, other gialli created by Lenzi in the early 1970s included Spasmo and Wide-Eyed in the Dark. During the early 1970s, Lenzi also created the first of the Italian cannibal films, with The Man from Deep River, a genre that he would explore again in the 1980s with Eaten Alive and Cannibal Ferox. During the late 1970s, Lenzi devoted himself almost exclusively to crime dramas, the 1980s began the decline of genre cinema in Italy. Despite this, it marked the release of films that Roberto Curti described as some of Lenzis most notorious and these included Nightmare City and the previously mentioned Cannibal Ferox. Follow these films, Lenzi created some sex comedies including Cicciabomba, other later 1980s work included the horror films that were made for television, including The House of Witchraft and The House of Lost Souls. In 1992, Lenzi directed David Warbeck in the first of a series of films called Hornsby. Lenzi would end his career with a few cop films that were similar to the American productions of that period. Lenzi later embarked on a career as a novelist, writing a series of murder set in the 1930s and 40s Cinecitta. Roberto Curti referred to Lenzi as one of the leading figures in Italian genre cinema
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Man from the Deep River
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It is perhaps best known for popularizing the cannibal genre of Italian exploitation cinema during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Like Man from Deep River, Mondo films often focus on exotic customs and locations, graphic violence, the film was mainly inspired by A Man Called Horse, which also featured a white man who is incorporated into a tribe that originally held him captive. The title The Man from Deep River is even supposed to echo the title of A Man Called Horse and it is ironic that a film created to imitate the famous Richard Harris western would wind up being the template for what would later become the Italian cannibal film genre. The story focuses on a British photographer, John Bradley, who is sent into the Thai rain forest to take wildlife photographs, while on assignment, a tribe native to the area takes him captive. Bradley starts in Bangkok, taking photos and seeing the sights and his date grows increasingly bored and disgruntled by Bradleys refusal to leave, until she finally walks out on him, which doesnt bother him in the slightest. An unidentified man sees her leave, and presumably upset over the disrespect shown towards the young woman, after a brief struggle, Bradley manages to turn the weapon against the man and kills him. Even though he killed in self-defense, Bradley immediately flees the scene, the next day, John begins his trip deep into the rain forest. He rents a canoe and a guide to him down a nearby river. Still fearing that hell be captured by the authorities, he pays off the man to not mention their encounter. After rowing a ways and taking several wildlife photos, Bradleys guide, Tuan, mentions his concerns about traveling so far down river, John agrees to head back after one more day of traveling. John falls asleep, and when he awakes, he finds Tuan dead with an arrow in his throat, before he has any chance to escape, a native tribe captures him in a net and carries him to their village. The chief, Luhanà, is told that the group has captured a large fish-man, at the village, Bradley is hung in the net from a high pole, where a group of young children hit him with bamboo stalks. While hanging, Bradley witnesses the execution of two war criminals by his captive tribe, the tribe is at war with another, even more primitive tribe of cannibals, the Kuru. Two of the cannibals have their tongues cut off in the village center, Bradley reacts with disgust, labeling the tribe as murderers. Still in the net and hanging for hours, John notices that he has attracted the attention of Marayå and she convinces her father that John is not a fish-man, just a man. Luhanà agrees to release Bradley as Marayås slave and he is forced to stay locked in a shack for hours, where Taima, Marayås governess, introduces herself. She is a child and can speak English, and tells Bradley that soon he will be released. Luhanà interrupts the two and unties Bradley because it is the day of the Feast of the Sun, during the feast, a helicopter flies overhead
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Eaten Alive!
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Eaten Alive. is an 1980 Italian horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi. The film is about a woman who is searching for her sister after her abduction by a cult in the jungles of Sri Lanka. A woman named Sheila is searching for her sister, who has disappeared in the jungles of Asia. Sheila joins up with Mark, and they encounter many perils while searching for Sheilas sister, Diana. Diana has joined a cult run by a man called Jonas, Jonas physically and sexually abuses his followers and local people alike. In one graphic scene, he rapes Sheila with a dildo covered in snake blood, in another, a native widow named Mowara is ritualistically raped after her late husbands body is burned on a pyre. They quickly escape back to New York when helicopters sent by the authorities come looking for them, back in the village, the rest of the cult commits ritual suicide, leaving one young female survivor for the authorities to find. Was part of the boom and filmed before the release of Cannibal Holocaust. The film uses a traditional adventure film narrative opposed to the mondo film style of previous cannibal films. The film uses footage taken from other films, including Ultimo mondo cannibale. The film was released in 1980 and it was released under the alternative title Doomed to Die in the United States. In more talented hands, there could have been a statement made with this film. As it turns out, the only statement most viewers are likely to come away with is yuck, List of Italian films of 1980 List of horror films of 1980 Shipka, Danny. Perverse Titillation, The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, Eaten Alive at the Internet Movie Database Eaten Alive. Trailer is available for download at the Internet Archive
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Ruggero Deodato
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Ruggero Deodato is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. During his career, he ranged different genres like peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco and science fiction, but he is best known for directing violent and gory horror films. He is famous for his 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust, considered one of the most controversial and brutal movies in the history of cinema and it is also cited as a precursor of found footage films such as The Blair Witch Project and The Last Broadcast. The film strengthened Deodatos fame as a director and earned him the nickname Monsieur Cannibal in France. Deodato has been an influence on film directors like Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Deodato was born in Potenza, Basilicata, and moved to Rome with his family as a child. He went to Denmark and started as a musician playing piano, once back to Italy, he quit music after his private teacher sent him away for playing by ear. Deodato grew up in the neighborhood where Romes major film studios are located and it was there that he learned how to direct under Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Corbucci, he helped to make Corbuccis The Slave and Django as an assistant director. Later on in the 1960s, he directed some comedy, musical, in 1976 he returned to the big screen with his ultra-violent police flick Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man. Late in 1979 he returned to the subgenre with his ultra-gory Cannibal Holocaust. The film was shot in the Amazon Rainforest for a budget of about $100,000, and starred Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, and Carl Gabriel Yorke. The film is a mockumentary about a group of filmmakers who go into the Amazon Rainforest, during production, many cast and crew members protested the use of real animal killing in the film, including Kerman, who walked off the set. Deodato was forced to reveal the secrets behind the special effects. Deodato also received condemnation, still ongoing, for the use of animal torture in his films. Despite the numerous criticisms, Cannibal Holocaust is considered a classic of the horror genre and his Cut and Run is a jungle adventure thriller, containing nudity, extreme violence and the appearance of Michael Berryman as a crazed, machete-wielding jungle man. In the 1980s, he made some other films, including Body Count, Phantom of Death. In the 1990s he turned to TV movies and dramas with some success, in 2007, he made a cameo appearance in Hostel, Part II in the role of a cannibal. Deodato has made two dozen films and TV series, his films covering many different genres, including many action films, a western. Deodato was married to actress Silvia Dionisio from 1971 to 1979 and he has a son from the marriage
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Ultimo mondo cannibale
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Ultimo mondo cannibale is a cannibal exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato, which stars Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov. The screenplay was written by Tito Carpi, Gianfranco Clerici and Renzo Genta, while not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. A group of oil prospectors travel to an outpost in a jungle on the island of Mindanao, a rough landing damages the plane. The two prospectors Robert and Rolf find the remains of the original prospecting camp. Later, a member of the team goes missing, the two prospectors and their pilot go into the jungle, and the pilot is killed. The two prospectors then discover that the team member was eaten by cannibals. After getting separated in the jungle, Robert is kidnapped by a cannibal tribe. The tribe subjects Robert to various tortures, including tying him up, stripping him nude and fondling his genitals, the cannibals then imprison Robert in a cave, where he is starved. Robert manages to escape with a girl, who he keeps tied to a cord. The native girl tries to escape, and Robert rapes her, the two then find Rolf, whose leg is infected with gangrene. The three of them wander through the jungle until they find the landing field. The cannibals then set them and kill the native girl, then cook. After Rolf is hit in the chest with a spear, Robert fights, Robert then eats the natives liver to frighten the other cannibals. Robert and Rolf then manage to make it to the plane, Deodato claims that these scenes were added by producer Giorgio Carlo Rossi without his permission. The film also contains explicit close-ups of Foschis penis being fondled by natives, Ultimo mondo cannibale at the Internet Movie Database Ultimo mondo cannibale at AllMovie
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Rada Rassimov
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Rada Rassimov is an Italian actress of Serb origin, who has appeared in film since the early 1960s and television since 1975. Later, she went to university and took acting classes with her brother Ivan in Rome and her career was at its peak in the 1960s and 1970s although she has appeared in film as recently as 2003. Since 1975 she has worked predominantly on Italian television and her brother Ivan Rassimov, who died in a motorcycle accident in 2003, was also an actor. She has a brother, Milorad, now a retired music professor still living in Trieste. Rada Rassimov at the Internet Movie Database
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Adriano Celentano
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Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, composer, producer, comedian, actor, film director and TV host. He is dubbed as the Molleggiato because of his dancing, Celentano very often is credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs. Due to his career and great successes both in Italy and in the rest of the world, he is considered one of the pillars of Italian music. Celentano is also recognized for being particularly perceptive to the changes in the music business and he is credited for having introduced rock and roll in Italy – a genre that exercised great appeal on young people of that time. Celentano is also an actor and has acted in about 40 films, Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Cristoforo Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song Il ragazzo della via Gluck. His parents were from Foggia, in Apulia, and had moved north for work, heavily influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock and roll scene as well as American actor Jerry Lewis, Celentano started playing in a rock and roll band with Giorgio Gaber and Enzo Jannacci. He first appeared on screen in Ragazzi del Juke-Box a 1959 Italian musical film directed by Lucio Fulci, in 1960 Federico Fellini casted him as a rock and roll singer in his film La Dolce Vita. As a film director he frequently casted Ornella Muti, Eleonora Giorgi and he and Mori have three children, Rosita, Giacomo and Rosalinda Celentano, most notable to worldwide audiences for playing Satan in Mel Gibsons The Passion of the Christ. Celentano also hosted several Italian television shows, Celentano has retained his popularity in Italy for over 50 years, selling millions of records and appearing in numerous TV shows and movies. In the latter respect, he has also been a creator of a genre, with his characteristic walking. For the most part, his films were successful, indeed in the 1970s and part of the 1980s. As an actor, critics point to Serafino, directed by Pietro Germi and he has released forty albums, comprising twenty nine studio albums, three live albums, and eight compilations. Celentano has been a vegetarian since 2005 and a defender of animal rights. A football fan, Celentano is a well-known Inter Milan supporter and his last concert-event, after 18 years without live performances, was broadcast on Mediaset channel Canale 5, with over 9 million viewers
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La strega in amore
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La strega in amore is a 1966 Italian drama-horror film directed by Damiano Damiani. It is based on the novel Aura by Carlos Fuentes, the film grossed a total of 203,396,000 Italian lira domestically. It was released in the United States in August 1969 where it was distributed by G. G, la strega in amore at the Internet Movie Database
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Damiano Damiani
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Damiano Damiani was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. In 1946 Damiano Damiani became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Hugo Pratt, born in Pasiano di Pordenone, Friuli, Damiani studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, then made his début in 1947 with the documentary La banda dAffari. After a few years as a screenwriter, he directed his first feature film in 1960 and his 1962 film Arturos Island won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The 1960s were Damianis golden decade, he was praised by critics, in 1966 he directed A Bullet for the General, one of the first and one of the most notable political Spaghetti Westerns. In 1968, with The Day of the Owl, he started a series of films in social criticism. His 1971 film Confessions of a Police Captain won the Golden Prize at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival, in 1973 Damiani débuted as an actor, playing Giovanni Amendola in Florestano Vancinis The Matteotti Murder. He was known to horror film fans for directing Amityville II. In 1984 he directed one of the most famous Italian television series, La piovra and his last feature film was Assassini dei giorni di festa, directed in 2002. Damiani died on 7 March 2013, at his home in Rome, from respiratory failure, he was 90 years old
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Vittorio De Seta
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Vittorio De Seta was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinemas great imaginative realists of the 1960s. He was born in Palermo, Sicily, to a wealthy family, De Seta made ten short documentaries between 1954 and 1959, before directing his first feature-length film, Banditi a Orgosolo. His early documentaries focus on the life of many of Sicilys poorest workers, and are notable for their lack of voice-over narration, quiet mood. Best First Work in the Venice Film Festival with Banditi a Orgosolo, silver Ribbon of the Best Cinematography B/W at the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani with Banditi a Orgosolo. Il cinema di Vittorio De Seta, ISBN 88-7751-088-9 Il mondo perduto, i cortometraggi di Vittorio De Seta. Il cinema di Vittorio De Seta, ISBN 978-88-498-4493-1 Documentary Détour De Seta. Il mondo perduto Vittorio De Seta at the Internet Movie Database
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
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Is a 1966 American-Italian religious epic film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston. It recounts the first 22 chapters of the biblical Book of Genesis, covering the stories from Adam, released by 20th Century Fox, the film was photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno in Dimension 150, a variant of the 70mm Todd-AO format. In 1967, the score by Toshiro Mayuzumi was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures included the film in its Top Ten Films list of 1966, De Laurentiis and Huston won David di Donatello Awards for Best Producer and Best Foreign Director, respectively. The film consists of five sections, The Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noahs Ark. There are also a pair of sections, one recounting the building of the Tower of Babel. The sections vary greatly in tone, the story of Abraham is somber and reverential, while that of Noah repeatedly focuses on his love of all animals—herbivorous and carnivorous or omnivorous. Cats drink milk, with Noahs relationship with the animals being depicted harmoniously and it was originally conceived as the first in a series of films retelling the entire Old Testament, but these sequels were never made. Ulla Bergryd was a student living in Gothenburg, Sweden when she was discovered by a talent scout, who photographed her in a museum there. In an interview for The Pittsburgh Press, Bergryd recalled the experience, although Ive always been interested in movies and the theater, Id never seen any actual shooting, and it was all very exciting. Huston originally considered Alec Guinness and Charlie Chaplin for the part of Noah until he decided to play it himself. Ava Gardner was reluctant at first to play the part of Sarah and she later explained why she accepted the role, He had more faith in me than I did myself. Now Im glad I listened, for it is a challenging role, I start out as a young wife and age through various periods, forcing me to adjust psychologically to each age. It is a departure for me and most intriguing. In this role, I must create a character, not just play one, the film marks the debut of Italian actress Anna Orso, who portrays the role of Shems wife. It also introduced Franco Nero to American audiences, Nero, who was working as the still photographer, was hired by Huston for the role of Abel due to his handsome features. At the time, Nero could not speak English, and Huston gave him recordings of Shakespeare with which to study, ulla Bergryd, who was cast as Eve, later recalled, Paradise was, in fact, an old botanical garden on the outskirts of Rome. There were five reproductions of Noahs Ark built for the film
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John Huston
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John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand. Most of Hustons films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting a heroic quest, as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a goal, would become doomed, forming destructive alliances, giving the films a dramatic. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, Huston has been referred to as a titan, a rebel, and a renaissance man in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as cinemas Ernest Hemingway—a filmmaker who was never afraid to tackle tough issues head on, John Huston was born on August 5,1906, in Nevada, Missouri. He was the child of Rhea and Canadian-born Walter Huston. His father was an actor, initially in vaudeville, and later in films and his mother initially worked as a sports editor for various publications but gave it up after Huston was born. Similarly, his father gave up his acting career for steady employment as a civil engineer. He would later become successful on both Broadway and then in motion pictures. He had Scottish, Scots-Irish, English and Welsh ancestry, Hustons parents divorced in 1913, when he was 6, and as a result much of his childhood was spent living in boarding schools. During summer vacations, he traveled with each of his parents separately — with his father on vaudeville tours, the young Huston benefited greatly from seeing his father act on stage, as he was later drawn to the world of acting. Some critics, such as Lawrence Grobel, surmise that his relationship with his mother may have been the cause of his five marriages, and why few of his relationships lasted. Grobel wrote, When I interviewed some of the women who had loved him, according to actress Olivia de Havilland, she was the central character. I always felt that John was ridden by witches and he seemed pursued by something destructive. If it wasnt his mother, it was his idea of his mother, as a child he was often ill and was treated for an enlarged heart and kidney ailments. He recovered after an extended stay in Arizona, and moved with his mother to Los Angeles
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Cjamango
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Cjamango is a 1967 Italian spaghetti western starring Ivan Rassimov billed as Sean Todd. The film was released in Germany as Django Kreuze im Blutigen Sand. After winning gold in a game, Cjamango only has it stolen by his partners. Cjamango at the Internet Movie Database
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The Seven Red Berets
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Siciliano was born in Rome in 1925, and died in Rome in 1987 at the age of 62. He was known for directing mostly action/ adventure films and spaghetti westerns, several of the action set pieces of the film were reused in Sicilianos 1978 Scorticateli vivi/Skin em Alive. It was based on the novel Rebellion by Dean Craig AKA Piero Regnoli, like Dark of the Sun the film also features a train sequence. At Mercenary Central an angry Colonel rebukes the only survivor of the incident, Brandt has left important documents in the Simba village that contains information on the activities and employers of the mercenaries. The documents must be retrieved within four days, Brandt says he can recover the papers and rescue the captured journalist with a small patrol. His Sergeant selects three men, a German, a black African and an Irishman, as the patrol is unfamiliar with a swamp and desert they have to cross, Captain Loriwood recruits a French gunrunner called Caret for the fee of $15,000. Caret is familiar with the area as he has sold weapons to the Simbas, Caret became a weapons salesman after witnessing the torture of his wife who was burned and beaten to death in front of him. He became further alienated when the French government did not want to antagonise the local situation by seeking their prosecution, Loriwood also takes along a mercenary female doctor. The Seven Red Berets at the Internet Movie Database
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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
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The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh is a 1971 giallo murder mystery film directed by Sergio Martino. It is his first entry in the giallo subgenre, the letter h was added to the name Ward when an Italian woman named Mrs. Ward threatened legal action over the original titles potentially damaging her good name, just before the film was released. The film was known as Next. or The Next Victim. Her husband, a financier, hopes to collect the insurance money to pay off debts. The random serial killer meets his death when one of his victims fights back. Will Julie succumb to this dastardly betrayal by those closest to her, Victim who escaped from the killer Miguel del Castillo. List of Italian films of 1971 The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh at the Internet Movie Database The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh at Allmovie. com
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Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
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Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold, also known as Deaths Dealer, is a 1971 Italian Western film directed by Pasquale Squitieri and starring Klaus Kinski. Jeremias was 12 years old when an onslaught on his parents made him an orphan. He has fought Indians ever since because he considers responsible for this atrocity. As an adult he captures one day Tune, a young squaw in the wilderness and he brings her to the next city because he plans to sell her as a slave to the highest bidder. Before she is passed on to a buyer, a mob tries to lynch her. Jeremias foils this attempts but is taken by later on. Two bandits abduct Tune and leave Jeremias for dead, as soon as he has recovered sufficiently he pursues the misdoers. When he gets at them, it out they are associated with a so-called friend of his late father. Jeremias discloses that this presumed friend did not only deceive George Bridger, the murderers of the Bridger family have been his henchman who had been ordered to mask themselves as Indians
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Pasquale Squitieri
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Pasquale Squitieri was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, Squitieri graduated in law, then was involved in stage, as author. He made his debut with Io e Dio, produced by Vittorio De Sica. His film Il prefetto di ferro won the David di Donatello for Best Film in 1978, a film about the brigand Carmine Crocco, was suspended from the cinemas and it is not available on the home video market. Squitieri is the partner of Claudia Cardinale from 1974 and his 1980 film Savage Breed was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. Pasquale Squitieri at the Internet Movie Database
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All the Colors of the Dark
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All the Colors of the Dark is a 1972 Italian giallo film directed by Sergio Martino. The film was released under the alternate titles Day of the Maniac. Jane lives in London with Richard, her boyfriend, when she was five, her mother was murdered, and she recently lost a baby in a car crash. Shes plagued by nightmares of a knife-wielding, blue-eyed man, jane tries the Mass, but it seems to bring her nightmares to life. Is there any way out for her short of death or a living hell
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Super Bitch
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Super Bitch is a 1973 Italian-British poliziottesco film directed by Massimo Dallamano. The films score by Riz Ortolani would later be re-used in Red Rings of Fear, super Bitch was released in Italy on 3 May 1973 where it was distributed by Medusa. It grossed a total of 353,341,000 lire on its run in Italy. It was initially released in the United Kingdom under the title Blue Movie Blackmail where it was distributed by Hemdale, the English-language version of the film gave more emphasis to Stephanie Beachams nude scenes than the thriller plot
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Spasmo
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Spasmo is a 1974 Italian horror giallo film directed by Umberto Lenzi. It starred Suzy Kendall and Ivan Rassimov, a young couple on their nightly hormonal romp decide to go to the beach, where they first meet a mysterious man who is parked there. After asking for a light, the couple make their way to some nearby ruins, upon investigation, it turns out to be a brutalized mannequin. The mysterious man peels off in his car before they can ask him questions, enter couple number two, Christian and girlfriend number 1, who also decide the beach is a good place for a little afternoon delight. They too come upon a body, this time face down. However, it turns out she is a person, who is in fact not dead. Introducing herself as Barbara and not really explaining how she got there, despite seemingly being involved with the girl hes there with, Christian cant seem to get Barbara out of his mind. He finds a flask with the word, Tucania on it, Christian tracks it to a boat with the same name, harbored in a local marina. He and his girlfriend join a party aboard the boat, where they encounter Barbara and her current lover, Christian abandons his girlfriend and leaves the party with Barbara, upsetting Alex. They drive through an area, where they see lingerie-clad mannequins hanging. The couple winds up back at Barbaras motel, Christian tells Barbara about a terrible childhood incident with his father, and Barbara explains that Alex is not her boyfriend but more of a provider. After some flirtation, Barbara makes an odd request, Christian must shave his beard before the two have sex, as Christian shaves in the bathroom, he hears a noise outside. He pokes his head out the window and is assaulted by a man with a gun. The man, Tatum, enters the bathroom and threatens Christian, a brief struggle ensues wherein Tatum is shot and killed. Christian leaves the bathroom and tells Barbara everything, strangely at ease with the concept of a dead man in her room, she convinces Christian that the best thing to do is run. The pair go to a place, a seaside castle. Christian insists that his brother Fritz can help, but Barbara insists that no one can, the arguing pair are interrupted by squatters Malcolm and Clorinda. Malcolm taunts Christian with a story about a local murder, believing news of Tatums death has reached the news, Christian admits that hes the killer, but Malcolm explains that he was just joking
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Legend of the Sea Wolf
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Legend of the Sea Wolf is a 1975 Italian adventure film directed by Giuseppe Vari. It is based on the novel The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, author and gentleman Humphrey Van Weyden is shanghaied and wakes up aboard Captain Larsens ship on a seal hunting voyage of indeterminate length. Captain Larsen runs a tight ship using hands on techniques to quell on–board dissension, with seamanship unknown to Humphrey, he is assigned to the ships cook as a Scullery maid. The Captain informs Humphrey that the sea voyage will allow him to stand on his own two feet and not walk in his fathers shoes, unsuccessful in their seal hunt, Captain Larsen decides to poach on the seal hunting area of his brother, Death Larsen. Their ship also rescues three survivors from a steamship that has exploded, Maud Brewster and two stokers
