Luigi Scaccianoce
Luigi Scaccianoce ( born July 12, 1914 in Venice, Italy, † October 18, 1981 in Rome ) was an Italian art director.
Life and work
Scaccianoce began in the early 1930s to study architecture in his hometown of Venice. He then went close to Rome to further training at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. His first cinematic tasks consisted in the wizard for various Designer. Shortly before the end of the Second World War started Scaccianoce his work as chief architect.
Scaccianoces early services mainly include histories and opera films, but he also designed the designs for several melodramas and war dramas. Luigi Scaccianoce worked early on with international directors, including the Austrian Max Neufeld, the Germans John Brahm and Wilhelm Dieterle as well as the American Joseph Losey and Orson Welles. In later years, Luigi Scaccianoce cooperated primarily with the most important innovators of Italian cinema as Roberto Rossellini ( The fearless rebel ), Alberto Lattuada ( The Steppe ) and Federico Fellini ( Fellini Satyricon ). His seminal designs delivered Scaccianoce contrast in the 60s for Pier Paolo Pasolini's productions: Large birds, small birds, Edipo Re - bed of violence and in 1964 the first Gospel - Matthew. The Filmbauten to the latter directed by Pasolini brought Scaccianoce 1967 for an Oscar nomination. " Above all, his work on Pasolini and Fellini proved Scaccianoces great skill and his creative force in the implementation of imaginations and fantasies in plastic rooms. "