Cesare Canevari
{{Short description|Italian actor, director and screenwriter}}
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| birth_place = Milan, Italy
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Cesare Canevari (13 October 1927 – 25 October 2012) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Canevari began his career shortly after World War II as a stage actor, occasionally also appearing in films in minor roles.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} Variously referred to as "a genius ahead of his time",{{cite news|title=Addio a Cesare Canevari Fu regista di "Matalo!"|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2012/ottobre/27/Addio_Cesare_Canevari_regista_Matalo_co_0_20121027_2c761f1e-1ff9-11e2-9f59-aaa83ed80f35.shtml|access-date=24 May 2015|work=Corriere della Sera|date=27 October 2012}} "a master of genre cinema" and "one of the less labelable directors of Italian genre cinema",{{cite news|title=Omaggio a Cesare Canevari, un regista poco italiano|url=http://www.fondazionecsc.it/events_detail.jsp?IDAREA=16&ID_EVENT=698>EMPLATE=ct_home.jsp|access-date=24 May 2015|work=Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia|date=11 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524134546/http://www.fondazionecsc.it/events_detail.jsp?IDAREA=16&ID_EVENT=698>EMPLATE=ct_home.jsp|archive-date=24 May 2015|url-status=dead}} he directed nine films between 1964 and 1983.{{cite news|last1=Eugenio Ercolani|title=MATALO! - Il cinema nordico di Cesare Canevari|url=http://www.orizzontidigloria.com/cinema-italiano/matalo-il-cinema-nordico-di-cesare-canevari|access-date=24 May 2015|work=Orizzonti di gloria|date=6 June 2014}} Often characterized by an unusual style, his films ranged through different genres, including noir, Nazisploitation, Spaghetti Western, giallo and melodrama. His films generally were produced and shot in Milan. His final film was Delitto carnale (1983){{cite book|last=Curti|first=Roberto|title=Italian Giallo in Film and Television|year=2022|publisher=McFarland|ISBN=978-1-4766-8248-8|p=276}}
Selected filmography
- Un tango dalla Russia (1965)
- Agente Segreto 070: Thunderbay Missione Grasshopper (1966)
- Una jena in cassaforte (1968)
- A Man for Emmanuelle (1969)
- Matalo! (1970)
- Last Orgy of the Third Reich (1977)
- Delitto carnale (1983)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id =0133911}}
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Category:Italian film directors
Category:Italian male film actors
Category:Italian male stage actors
Category:Italian screenwriters
Category:Film people from Milan
Category:Giallo film directors
Category:Italian male screenwriters
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