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  1. Alberto Cavallone (28 August 1938 – 12 November 1997) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Milan, Italy. Cavallone's films are anti-conventional and often contain a mixture of graphic violence, surrealism and eroticism.

  2. Alberto Cavallone was born on 28 August 1938 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Afrika (1973), La gemella erotica (1980) and Dal nostro inviato a Copenaghen (1970). He was married to Maria Pia Luzi. He died on 12 November 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

    • Writer, Director, Editor
    • August 28, 1938
    • Alberto Cavallone
    • November 12, 1997
  3. Alberto Cavallone è stato un regista cinematografico e sceneggiatore italiano.

  4. Shot on the Canary Islands with a big budget with large cast and crew, Cavallone developed physical and mental issues from the film’s demanding shooting schedule and responsibilities – going so far as to personally teach his actors in a gym physical moves that a Neanderthal might have made.

  5. Cavallone’s inspiration from Makavejevs cult movie is obvious: whereas “Sweet Movie” cuts to images of the Katyn Forest massacre, Cavallone uses grainy stock footage of Nazi death camps with bodies piled high and some consumed by fire.

  6. In the mid-Seventies, Alberto Cavallone was a marginal, one-of-a-kind figure amidst Italian cinema. In 1968, his second film, LE SALAMANDRE, had won him a decent commercial success, thanks to its allusive title and lesbian undertones, which somewhat overshadowed the film’s sociopolitical theme – colonialism.

  7. Dec 19, 2008 · Little is known of Alberto Cavallone and his movies: some being lost or damaged. His unorthodox working methods, eccentric and anarchic film style, as well as the majority of his films never being released outside Italy, saw that his genius was to be curtailed by the home censor and limited distribution.