Mario Dribbled

Mario Bava is a Director realizer, of photography and Italian scenario writer, born the July 31st 1914 with Sanremo, and deceased of a Myocardial infarction the April 27th 1980 with Rome (Italy).

He is regarded as the Master of the Italian cinema of the fantastic and the creator of the kind known as Giallo .

Biography

Mario Bava contracted the virus of the cinema by her father. This one, sculptor, entered the cinema world in 1906 by carrying out the gate of a tomb for a Pathé production. He will be chief-operator thereafter on Italian productions. However the first vocation of Mario Bava is the painting which he learns with Beautiful arts. But in 1939, it enters the Director cinema like of the photography, then like Chef operator. It becomes quickly, thanks to the quality of its lightings and the flamboyance of its colors, one of the operators chiefs the most coveted of Italy. He works, inter alia, with dimensions of Pabst, Dino Risi, Roberto Rossellini, Riccardo Freda or Raoul Walsh.

When Riccardo Freda gives up turning Vampires, Bava which was in charge with the photograph and the special effects, is seen entrusting the realization and finishes film in two days. Dribbled will make in the same way with Caltiki of Freda and the Battle of Marathon of Jacques Tourneur and Co-carries out with Pietro Francisci Work of Hercules and Hercules and the queen of Lydie before seeing itself entrusting, in 1960, the Mask of the demon . Dribbled moves away from the codes of film of vampire and successful a film Gothic and alarming expressionnist , poetic, which gives access to him a world famous. But at once Bava forsakes the fantastic one to find the Péplum and the frescos in costumes with Hercules against the vampires , the Rush of the Vikings and Thousand and One Nights . In 1962, Bava carries out its first thriller, the Girl who knew of it too in which it starts to provide the foundations of what will be the Giallo before joining again with the Gothic and sadistic universe of its beginnings in the Body and the whip . In 1963, Bava is a new public success with film with sketches, the Three Faces of the fear . The following year, it carries out Six women for the assassin . With this film, which is often regarded as its masterpiece, where culminates its taste for the blazing lights and colors and the overloaded decorations, Bava sign the founding document of the Giallo.

But, at that time, in Italy, it is the western which has the favors of the public. Dribbled tests itself there, without success, with Arizona Bill . Thanks to public success in the United States of the mask of the demon and three faces of the fear , Dribbled sign a contract of five films of Science-fiction for American International Pictures, but only one will realize any, Terrore nello spazio , which Ridley Scott for Alien will remember. With Operation fear , Bava joins again with film of terror and the fantastic Gothic. The end of the Years 1960 and the beginning of the Années 1970 is one period of strong activity for Bava which carries out a film of Vikings ( Duel with the knife ), a parody of the films Corman-Poe ( the spie vengono dal semifreddo ), a public success ( Diabolic Danger ), a péplum ( the Odyssey ), giallo ( It rosso segno beyond follia , the island of terror and the bloody Bay ), two science fiction films gothico-macabre ( LISA and it devil and Baron vampire) , a realistic police officer ( Cani Arrabbiati ) and a western ( Roy Colt E Winchester Jack ). But of all these films only Diabolic Danger was a business success, while LISA and the devil and Cani Arrabbiati were not even distributed. Starting from 1974, Bava is then forsaken by the cinema world. And it is his/her son, Lamberto Bava which signs the last achievements of the father, a giallo, Shock in 1977, and in 1978, a telefilm for the SPOKE, venerates It of Ille .

Mario Bava dies in Rome, of an heart attack, on April 27th, 1980, a few weeks before beginning a new film, a space opera, Star Express train .

Catalog of films

  • 1946 : Orecchio
  • 1947: Santa notte
  • 1947 : Captioned Sinfonica
  • 1947: Anfiteatro Flavio
  • 1949 : Variazioni sinfoniche
  • 1955 : Ulysses ( Ulisse ) (not credited)
  • 1956: the Vampires ( I Vampiri ) (not credited)
  • 1959: Caltiki, the immortal monster ( Caltiki - it mostro immortale ) (not credited)
  • 1959: the Battle of Marathon ( Battaglia di Maratona ) (not credited)
  • 1960: the Mask of the demon ( Maschera LED demonio )
  • 1961: the Last of the Vikings ( Lastly the dei Vikinghi ) (not credited)
  • 1961: Thousand and One Nights ( Meraviglie di Aladino )
  • 1961: Hercules against the vampires ( central Ercole Al beyond will terra )
  • 1961: Rush of the Vikings ( Gli Invasori )
  • 1963: the Girl who knew of it too ( Ragazza che sapeva troppo )
  • 1963: Three faces of the fear ( I Tre volti beyond will paura )
  • 1963: the Body and the whip ( Frusta E it corpo )
  • 1964: Six women for the assassin ( Sei gives per the assassino )
  • 1964: Strada per Strong Alamo
  • 1965: the Planet of the vampires ( Terrore nello spazio )
  • 1966: Dollars of Nebraska ( Ringo del Nebraska ) (not credited)
  • 1966: Duel with the knife ( I Coltelli LED vendicatore )
  • 1966: Operation fear ( Operazione will paura )
  • 1966: the Spy who came from frozen ( Spie vengono dal semifreddo )
  • 1968: Danger: Diabolik! ( Diabolik )
  • 1970: the Island of terror ( 5 bambole per the luna of agosto )
  • 1970: the bloody Bay 2 ( It Rosso segno beyond follia )
  • 1970: Roy Colt E Winchester Jack
  • 1971: the bloody Bay ( Reazione has catena )
  • 1972: Baron vampire ( Gli Orrori LED castello di Norimberga )
  • 1972: Quante volte… quella notte
  • 1973: the House of exorcism ( Put It dell' esorcismo )
  • 1974: mad Dogs ( Cani arrabbiati )
  • 1977: Demons of the night ( Schock )
  • 1979: Venerates It di Ille (TV)

See also

  • Cinema (a)
  • Series B

External bond

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