Cesare Canevari Biography
Cesare Canevari (1927 - 2012) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Born in Milan, Canevari began at a very young age in the 1950s as an "amorous" actor, that is, playing the roles of a boy in love, and then continued on the arduous paths of production and distribution, so much so that his directorial debut came from the fact that the director Oscar De Fina had decided not to shoot the western For a Dollar in Tucson You Die anymore and so Canevari, who produced the film, decided to put himself behind the camera so as not to lose all the money. And it is always Canevari who decides on the Italian title of Nicolas Roeg's film, Don't Look Now, in A shocking red December in Venice. Defined variously as "a genius ahead of his time", "a master of genre cinema" and "one of the least labelable directors of Italian genre cinema", he directed nine films between 1964 and 1983 (Un tango dalla Russia (1965), Hyena in the Safe (1968), I, Emmanuelle (1969), Matalo! (1970), The Romance of a Poor Young Man (1974), The Naked Princess (1976), The Last Orgy of the Third Reich (1977), Nuclear Alarm (1979), Delitto carnale (1982). Often characterized by an unusual style, his films ranged across different genres, including noir, Nazisploitation, Spaghetti Western, giallo and melodrama demonstrating an un-Italian style of filmmaking. on stage rarely banal stories, with an aesthetic indebted to the Nouvelle Vague (Godard first and foremost) and to certain eccentric authors of English cinema (Ken Russell and Nicolas Roeg). His films were generally produced and shot in Milan.
