Carlo Vanzina
Carlo Vanzina ( born March 13, 1951 in Rome ) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and film producer, who has directed in various genres in Italian cinema since 1976. Below. For movies like A little love, Via Montenapoleone, the game of his life or The Roman Cannon
Life and career
Carlo Vanzina, born in 1951 in Rome, is the son of film director and screenwriter Stefano Vanzina called Steno ( 1915-1988 ). Carlo Vanzina began his film career as an assistant director in 1970 with Mario Monicelli's comedy adventure Brancaleone on crusade to the Holy Land in the lead roles Vittorio Gassman and Adolfo Celi.
Since 1976, he directed from his own screenplay with Luna di miele in tre his first feature film. Since that time Vanzina has about 70 film and television productions serves as a director. Most screenplays for his films, he writes itself Some movies of colleagues, he has co-produced. Vanzina feels in all film genres at home. The number of crime films, dramas and comedies hold in his filmography roughly in balance.
In 1988 he occupied in the literary adaptation The game of his life next to Matthew Modine, three strong female characters with Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Beals and Corinne Clery.
For his comedy of 1994 The Roman Cannon he engaged alongside Italian actors also the popular American actor Leslie Nielsen, known in the internationally successful trilogy The Naked Gun.