Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella (* October 15, 1915 in Foggia, † October 7, 2002 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. In some of his films he used the pseudonyms Paolo Dominici and Paul Fleming.
Life
Paolella had as a student interested in the movie business, took from 1935 to 1937 at the Littoriali courses are offered and turned two experimental films. After a brief period as a film critic with contributions for various newspapers and magazines signed him Carmine gallon as assistants at Scipio l' Africano. Subsequently Paolella shot numerous documentaries and short films. Also a book on Experimental cinema appeared. After the fall of Mussolini, he was responsible for one of the first documentaries about the resistance. During the war he worked as a correspondent in the Soviet front; 1946 to 1951 he was editor of the first 500 issues of which he founded himself weekly Incom.
In 1952 he filmed the documentary America, which was told in the United States by Orson Welles and gained television experience with two crime films. His La tragedian Etna won the prize for best documentary at Cannes. After his return to his native Italy he specialized in genre films, each had their flowering stage; then Comedies, hit movies, pirate movies, sandals films, spaghetti westerns and Nunsploitation found in his oeuvre. After he made his last film in 1979, he worked between 1992 and 1994 again with surprising on several screenplays.