Enrico Guazzoni
Italian film director (1876–1949)
Enrico Guazzoni (18 December 1876 – 23 September 1949) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is renowned for his silent historical films, which set the standard for epic cinema in the early twentieth century. Guazzoni was the uncle of Jolanda Kodra, an Italian-Albanian writer and translator.
Biography
Enrico Guazzoni was born in Rome on 18 December 1876 to Bartolomeo and Ginevra Santucci. After graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, he began a career as a genre painter. In 1901, he met the film producer Filoteo Alberini, who offered him a job at Cines, Alberini's film production company Guazzoni made his debut as a writer and director in 1907 with the comedy film Un invitato a pranzo, starring André Deed. The following year, he founded the film company Cosmos, for which he directed a documentary and two films starring Gianna Terribili-Gonzales, Il romanzo di una ciociara and Fiore selvaggio.
In 1909, Guazzoni made two more films with Terribili-Gonzales: Adriana and La nuova mammina. He also co-directed an adaptation of Collodi's Pinocchio with Giulio Antamoro. The following year, he finally achieved success with two historical productions set in ancient Rome: Brutus and Agrippina.
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