Romano Scavolini

Romano Scavolini
Born	(1940-06-18) 18 June 1940 (age 83)^[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] 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.^[3]

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
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (also known as Nightmare – Blood Splash) – 1981
Dog Tags – 1988
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

^ IMDb. "Romano Scavolini". IMDb. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
^ di Marino, Bruno. "Le belle prove di Romano Scavolini – Il cinema Underground". Tiscalinet (in Italian). Retrieved 11 August 2019.
^ "A-Z of Video Nasties". Hysteria Lives!. Retrieved 11 August 2019.