Ottavio Alessi
Ottavio Alessi was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
Life and career
Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. In 1945 he started an intense career as a screenwriter, alternating between genre films and art films and collaborating with Pietro Germi, Franco Rossi, Folco Quilici and Luciano Salce, among others. He also directed two films in the 1960s.Selected filmography
;Director and screenwriter;Screenwriter
- The Testimony
- Friends [for Life |Friends for Life]
- A Woman [Alone |A Woman Alone]
- Juke [box urli d'amore]
- Wild [Cats on the Beach]
- The Mongols
- Charge of [the Black Lancers]
- La ragazzola
- Bali
- Emanuelle in Bangkok
- La Bidonata
- Emanuelle in America
- ''The Precarious [Bank Teller]''