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Ruggero Deodato
Ruggero Deodato (Italian: [rudˈdʒɛːro deoˈdato]; 7 May 1939 – 29 December 2022) was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter, and occasional actor.
His career spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco, and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known for directing violent and gory horror films with strong elements of realism. His most notable film is Cannibal Holocaust, considered one of the most controversial and brutal in the history of cinema, which was seized, banned or heavily censored in many countries, and which contained special effects so realistic that they led to Deodato being arrested on suspicion of murder. Cannibal Holocaust is also cited as a precursor of found footage films such as The Blair Witch Project and The Last Broadcast. The film strengthened Deodato's fame as an "extreme" director and earned him the nickname "Monsieur Cannibal" in France.
Deodato was an influence on film directors like Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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 and conducting a small orchestra at 7 years old. Once back to Italy, he quit music after his private teacher sent him away for playing by ear.
Deodato grew up on a farm and at eighteen grew up in the neighborhood where Rome's major film studios are located. Through a friendship with the son of Rossellini, it was there that he learned how to direct under Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Corbucci; he helped to make Corbucci's The Slave and Django as an assistant director. In the 1960s Deodato directed some comedy, musical and thriller films, before leaving cinema to do television commercials. In 1976 he returned to movies with the police film Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man.
In 1977 he directed the jungle adventure film Last Cannibal World, also known as Jungle Holocaust, starring British actress Me Me Lai.
Italian: Io ho fatto solo due/tre horror, il resto sono film realistici.
I have only done two/three horror, the rest are realistic films.
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Ruggero Deodato
Ruggero Deodato (Italian: [rudˈdʒɛːro deoˈdato]; 7 May 1939 – 29 December 2022) was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter, and occasional actor.
His career spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco, and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known for directing violent and gory horror films with strong elements of realism. His most notable film is Cannibal Holocaust, considered one of the most controversial and brutal in the history of cinema, which was seized, banned or heavily censored in many countries, and which contained special effects so realistic that they led to Deodato being arrested on suspicion of murder. Cannibal Holocaust is also cited as a precursor of found footage films such as The Blair Witch Project and The Last Broadcast. The film strengthened Deodato's fame as an "extreme" director and earned him the nickname "Monsieur Cannibal" in France.
Deodato was an influence on film directors like Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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 and conducting a small orchestra at 7 years old. Once back to Italy, he quit music after his private teacher sent him away for playing by ear.
Deodato grew up on a farm and at eighteen grew up in the neighborhood where Rome's major film studios are located. Through a friendship with the son of Rossellini, it was there that he learned how to direct under Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Corbucci; he helped to make Corbucci's The Slave and Django as an assistant director. In the 1960s Deodato directed some comedy, musical and thriller films, before leaving cinema to do television commercials. In 1976 he returned to movies with the police film Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man.
In 1977 he directed the jungle adventure film Last Cannibal World, also known as Jungle Holocaust, starring British actress Me Me Lai.
Italian: Io ho fatto solo due/tre horror, il resto sono film realistici.
I have only done two/three horror, the rest are realistic films.