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Aldo Lado (5 December 1934 – 25 November 2023) was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter and author. [1] He was known internationally for his contributions to the giallo genre during the 1970s, through his films Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Who Saw Her Die?
Aldo Lado, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di George B. Lewis, è stato un regista, sceneggiatore, scrittore ed editore italiano.
Aldo Lado was born on 5 December 1934 in Fiume, Italy [now Croatia]. He was a writer and director, known for Alibi perfetto (1992), The Conformist (1970) and Love Ritual (1989). He died on 25 November 2023 in Rome, Italy.
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La disubbidienza: Directed by Aldo Lado. With Stefania Sandrelli, Teresa Ann Savoy, Mario Adorf, Marie-José Nat. Northern Italy under fascist rule: Luca becomes a partisan, but after the war ends things are not as he had hoped for him and he decides to die.
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The corpse of reporter Gregory Moore (Jean Sorel) is found in a Prague plaza and brought to the local morgue. But Moore is actually alive, trapped inside his dead body and desperately recalling how the mysterious disappearance of his beautiful girlfriend (Barbara Bach) led to a terrifying conspiracy of depravity. He begins to walk in through his mi...
The original story for the film took place in Sardinia with a story Aldo Lado described as being a story about Sicily and the mafia. Following the events of the Prague Spring, Lado was sent to Prague to scout locations for a production which never got made. The film was influenced by Lado's time in Prague, and went through various drafts. one title...
Short Night of Glass Dolls was released in Italy on October 28, 1971 and in West Germany on May 30, 1972. The film was released on DVD by Blue Undergroundon February 26, 2008.
Alison Nastasi of Shock Till You Drop called it "nail-biting" and wrote, "Lado is at his best when Short Night of Glass Dolls confronts political and social unrest with nuanced symbolism." Noel Murray of The A.V. Club wrote, "Short Night presages Eyes Wide Shut in its account of a man wandering through a shadow city while uncovering layers of sleaz...
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1. Curti, Roberto (2022). Italian Giallo in Film and Television. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-8248-8.
Short Night of Glass Dolls at IMDbShort Night of Glass Dolls at Rotten TomatoesAldo Lado (5 December 1934 – 25 November 2023) was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter and author. [1] He was known internationally for his contributions to the giallo genre during the 1970s, through his films Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Who Saw Her Die?
Nov 26, 2023 · Aldo Lado, noto per film come "L'umanoide", "Sepolta viva" e "L'ultimo treno della notte", è scomparso a 89 anni dopo una lunga malattia. Il regista e sceneggiatore ha anche scritto romanzi e racconti, tra cui "I film che non vedrete mai".
