Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 – 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician.[1]
Giovanni Pastrone | |
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| Born | 13 September 1883 |
| Died | 27 June 1959 (aged 75) Turin, Piedmont, Italy |
| Other names | Piero Fosco |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, actor, technician |
| Notable work | Cabiria |
Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d'Asti. He worked during the era of the silent film and influenced many important directors in the international cinema with Cabiria, such as David Wark Griffith in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).[2][3]
Martin Scorsese believes that Pastrone's work in Cabiria can be considered as the invention of the epic movie and he deserves credit for many of the innovations often attributed to D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille.[4] Among those was the extensive use of a moving camera, thus freeing the feature-length narrative film from "static gaze".[5][6]
Complete filmography
Directing
- La glu (1908)
- Giordano Bruno eroe di Valmy (1908)
- Julius Caesar (1909)
- The Fall of Troy (1911)
- Stronger than Sherlock Holmes (1913)
- Cabiria (1914)
- Tigre reale (1916)
- The Fire (1916)
- The Warrior (1916)
- La guerra e il sogno di Momi (1917)
- Maciste the Athlete (1918)
- Hedda Gabler (1920)
- Povere bimbe (1923)
Acting
- Julius Caesar (1909)
References
External links
- Giovanni Pastrone at IMDb
- Giovanni Pastrone in Epdlp (Spanish)