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Aldo Lado (1934 - ) born in Fiume in 1934 but raised in Venice, wrote and made around twenty films for the big screen and over sixty for television. Ennio Morricone composed the soundtracks of many of his works. Read the full biography

Aldo Lado (1934 - ) born in Fiume in 1934 but raised in Venice, wrote and made around twenty films for the big screen and over sixty for television. Ennio Morricone composed the soundtracks of many of his works. Some of his films have become cult films all over the world and are often present in film festivals both in Italy and abroad. Although he does not have the status of pioneers and favorites of Italian cinema such as Mario Bava, Dario Argento or Lucio Fulci, Aldo Lado is often considered one of the most interesting directors of Italian cult cinema, mainly due to a handful of crime-inspired thrillers he has directed in the early 1970s. After a series of experiences as assistant director to Maurizio Lucidi and Bernardo Bertolucci, Lado's directorial career began with the thriller The short night of the glass dolls and followed the following year Who saw her die? (1972). Lado then abandons the thriller to dedicate himself to a more morbid and kitsch style as in Sepolta viva. In 1975, The Last Night Train was released, followed in 1979 by The Humanoid, a science fiction action between Star Wars and Frankenstein which became a cult in Italian science fiction cinema. He returned to thrilling in the early nineties with Perfect Alibi and Black Friday. In 2020, the French publisher Le Chat qui fume is re-proposing his early films on blu-ray together with the book Conversation avec Aldo Lado by Laure Charcossey, which traces his professional life. Since 2015 he began telling stories solely with the written page.