Marcello Baldi
Marcello Baldi ( born August 1, 1923 in Telve, Valsugana; † 22 July 2008 ) was an Italian film director.
Life
Baldi broke a degree in literature in order to work in film as an assistant to documentary filmmaker Antonio Covi and Vincenzo Sorelli. At the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia he turned as assistant director Romolo Marcellinis about the Vatican and Castel Gandolfo; shortly after the war, he was responsible for Guerra alla guerra, for which he shot a few scenes itself and its installation he created. By 1954, he made numerous short documentaries and was used in feature films as an assistant director, often with Lionello De Felice. This year, his first feature-length film was released (via the ascent of K2), which he realized with the mountaineers Mario Fantin. 1957 appeared the Spanish feature film co-production La morte ha viaggiato con me in two language versions, with Baldi was responsible for the Italian. After a mythological film and a thriller to Baldi moved to film on biblical subjects; first for the cinema, then ( as a medium-length films ) for the video market. Since 1977 he was active mainly for television, where he later success in 1972 with Le Evasioni celebri: Benvenuto Cellini succeeded.
For the spy film Inferno a Caracas in 1966, he used the pseudonym Billy Marshall. The 16th Film Festival paid tribute Lessinia Baldis creative toll.