Romano Scavolini

Romano Scavolini
Born	(1940-06-18) 18 June 1940 (age 85) [1] Fiume, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Film director, film producer, scriptwriter, cinematographer
Years active	1958–present
Notable work	Nightmare , A White Dress for Marialé

Romano Scavolini (born 18 June 1940) is an Italian film director and the younger brother of screenwriter Sauro Scavolini.

Career

He has been directing since the 1960s. Most of his films are shot independently and with an experimental style. ^[2] Following his return from Vietnam where he was a freelance photographer, director Romano Scavolini returned to his native Italy where he started his film career again as a genre filmmaker. ^[3] His best-known horror films are Nightmare (1981), a gruesome horror film that was banned as a video nasty in the UK, and his 1972 A White Dress for Marialé . ^[4]

Filmography

• The Devastated One (I devastati) – 1958/1959
• Blind Fly (A mosca cieca) (Ricordati di Haron) – 1966
• The Dress Rehearsal (La prova generale) – 1968
• Entonce – 1969
• L'amore breve  [ it ] (Lo stato d'assedio) (also known as State of Siege – Besieged) – 1969
• The long march (La lunga marcia)
• A White Dress for Marialé ; aka Un bianco vestito per Marialé (also known as Spirits of Death) – 1972
• Heart (Cuore) – 1973
• Your Honor (Servo suo) – 1973
• The Savage Hunt (also known as Condor's Run) – 1980
• Nightmare (1981 film) (also known as Nightmares in a Damaged Brain or Blood Splash) – 1981
• Dog Tags – 1981 film)
• Ustica: a thorn in the heart (Ustica. Una spina nel cuore) – 2001/2002/2003
• "Che" The Last Hours (Le ultime ore del Che) – 2003
• Apocalisse delle scimmie – A TRILOGY – 2004/2005/2006/2007/2008
• Two Families – 2007
• Two Days – 2012

as interviewed:

• Ban the Sadist Videos! – 2005
• The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal – 2007

References

1. IMDb. "Romano Scavolini". IMDb. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
2. di Marino, Bruno. "Le belle prove di Romano Scavolini – Il cinema Underground". Tiscalinet (in Italian). Retrieved 11 August 2019.
3. Curti 2017, p. 58. sfn error: no target: CITEREFCurti2017 (help)
4. "A-Z of Video Nasties". Hysteria Lives!. Retrieved 11 August 2019.

External links

• Romano Scavolini at IMDb
• Official website