Alfonso Brescia
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image
Alfonso Brescia (6 January 1930 – 6 June 2001) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He began working in film against his father's wishes, and eventually directed his first film Revolt of the Praetorians in 1964.[1] Brescia worked in several genres in the Italian film industry, including five science fiction films he directed following the release of Star Wars. His work slowed down towards the late 1980s, and his last film Club Vacanze could not get distribution.
Biography
Alfonso Brescia was born in Rome on 6 January 1930.Template:Sfn He was the son of a film producer and entered the film business against his father's will.Template:Sfn His father had him work as a production driver, which involved getting up early to persuade him against entering the business which did not work.Template:Sfn He began work as an assistant director as well as working in production offices, eventually directing his first film Revolt of the Praetorians in 1964.Template:Sfn
Following the release of Star Wars, Brescia shot five science fiction films in a row, Anno zero: guerra nello spazio, Battaglie negli spazi stellari (aka Battle of the Stars[2]), La guerra dei robot, Star Odyssey and The Beast in Space.Template:Sfn The Beast in Space was a science fiction pornography film based on Walerian Borowczyk's The Beast.Template:Sfn[3]
In the 1980s, with the decline of genre cinema, Brescia's output drastically diminished.Template:Sfn His final works included Iron Warrior and Miami Cops and Omicidio a luci blu.Template:Sfn He directed his last film in 1995, Club Vacanze, which failed to interest a distributor, making it the only film he lost money on.Template:Sfn
Brescia died in Rome on 5 May 2001.Template:Sfn
Style
Italian film historian Roberto Curti described Brescia as "a hack, but a reliable one".Template:Sfn Curti referred to Brescia as "one of the most prolific and versatile Italian filmmakers of the 1970s".Template:Sfn Brescia worked in popular film genres of their respective eras in Italy, including sword and sandal films, Westerns, war films, mondo films, gialli, erotic films, superhero films, children's films, and science fiction films.Template:Sfn
Selected filmography
- Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | Ref(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenwriter | Screen story writer | Other | ||||
| Gladiators 7 | 1962 | Yes | Assistant director | Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn | |||
| The Magnificent Gladiator | 1964 | Yes | Yes | Template:Sfn | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 1965 | Yes | Yes | Template:Sfn | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 1965 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Template:Sfn[4] | ||
| 30 Winchester per El Diablo | 1965 | Yes | Template:Sfn[5] | ||||
| Days of Violence | 1967 | Yes | Template:Sfn | ||||
| Battle of the Amazons | 1973 | Yes | Template:Sfn | ||||
| Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women | 1974 | Yes | Yes | Template:Sfn[6] | |||
| Blood and Bullets | 1976 | Yes | Yes | Template:Sfn | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | 1979 | Yes | Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn | ||||
| Iron Warrior | 1987 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Template:Sfn | ||
| Cosmos: War of the Planets | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | [7] | ||
| Battle of the Stars | — | Yes | Yes | [8][9] | |||
| War of the Robots (film) | — | Yes | Yes | [10] | |||
| Star Odyssey | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | [11] | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | [12] | ||
Notes
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980. McFarland. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
<templatestyles src="Refbegin/styles.css" />
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
- Template:Trim/ Alfonso Brescia at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".