Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo Girolami Castellari ( Enzo G. Castellari mostly Enzo Castellari or; born July 29, 1938 in Rome ) is an Italian film director.
Biography
Castellari comes from an intensely connected to the Italian film family; for example, his father Marino Girolami was also director Ennio brother and sister Stefania were actors. Even Enzo Castellari, who studied architecture and a time was long active as a boxer, was used by his father in some roles as an actor and worked as an assistant director. After the unofficial production of a film (1966 ) he was able to start his own directing career as early as next year. Castellari turned as a director in the 1960s and 1970s a number of films. As highlights of his work Poliziottesco two movies as well as the spaghetti western Keoma with Franco Nero apply. These films were impressive because of its innovative camera work. In Italy, the dead are witnesses not sing, A citizen defends himself and The Day of the Cobra as cult films. With Fabio Testi he still turns the Polizeiflme Racket and Dealer Connection - The road of heroin. Quentin Tarantino has often indicated a strong influence of his style by Castellari, his film Inglourious Basterds is a remake of a work of Castellari from the year 1978.
In later years Castellari turned some apocalyptic movies in Mad -Max - style and, after the decline of the Italian cinema, primarily for television. In 1993 he turned Revenge of the white Indian, the content inspired by Keoma. For years, he announces the filming of a new western (working title: Nikita Jones) with Franco Nero.
In most of his films Castellari plays a small role.