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Augusto Genina
Born(1892-01-28)28 January 1892
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died18 September 1957(1957-09-18) (aged 65)
Occupation(s)film director, film producer
Years active1913–1955
Spouses
Carmen Boni ​ ​(m. 1924; div. 1934)​
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Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.

Biography

Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua eccellenza". In 1929 Genina moved to France. While there, he directed Louise Brooks in the early French talkie Miss Europe, which was her only French film. He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy.

He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by Lo squadrone bianco and in 1940 by The Siege of the Alcazar, both Fascist propaganda films.

In 1953, he filmed Three Forbidden Stories, another version of the real accident depicted by Giuseppe De Santis one year before in Rome 11 o'clock (Roma ore 11).

Filmography

References

  1. Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. (2007). 501 Movie Directors. London: Cassell Illustrated. p. 59. ISBN 9781844035731. OCLC 1347156402.

External links

The films of Augusto Genina
Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Director
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