3-569: Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 – 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Camerini began his career in the film industry in 1920, working for his cousin the director Augusto Genina . Camerini went on to direct his own films at Cines Studios . He made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica . He directed about fifty films until 1972, including 1954's Ulysses with American stars Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn , one of
6-608: 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
9-661: The first Europe/US film co-productions. He died in 1981 in Gardone Rivera . This article about an Italian film director is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Augusto Genina Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director. 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
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