Romano Scavolini


Romano Scavolini 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. Following his return from Vietnam where he was a freelance photographer, director Romano Scavolini returned to his native Italy where he started his film career again as a genre filmmaker. His best-known horror films are Nightmare, a gruesome horror film that was banned as a video nasty in the UK, and his 1972 A White Dress for Marialé.

Filmography

  • The Devastated One – 1958/1959
  • Blind Fly – 1966
  • The Dress Rehearsal – 1968
  • Entonce – 1969
  • – 1969
  • The long march
  • A White Dress for Marialé; aka Un bianco vestito per Marialé – 1972
  • Heart – 1973
  • Your Honor – 1973
  • The Savage Hunt – 1980
  • Nightmare – 1981
  • Dog Tags – 1981 film)
  • Ustica: a thorn in the heart – 2001/2002/2003
  • "Che" The Last Hours – 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