Nunzio Malasomma
Nunzio Malasomma ( born February 4, 1894 in Caserta, † 12 January 1974 ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Life
After a technical study Nunzio Malasomma turned to journalism and founded in 1920 together with Luciano Doria film and theater magazine " Fortunio ". For the film, he became a writer. His first two screenplays wrote Malasomma 1921 and 1923, based in Turin and Rome film production company Fert. After Mussolini was ascended in 1923 by a coup for Italian Prime Minister, Malasomma went to Germany. Many other Italian film artists - such as Mario Bonnard, Guido Brignone and Gennaro Righelli - did the same. For Righelli, who was hired in Berlin by the young Trianon film, he wrote the screenplay for the 1924 film Henry George " rudderless ". In the same year the team produced another film, " East - The daughter of the desert", with Harry Liedtke and Righellis wife Maria Jacobini in the lead roles. 1925 Malasomma staged his first film, "The king and the little girl ," in the next to the Italian silent film star Luciano Albertini and the successful flapper Actress Eva Evi Hans Albers was seen. With Charlotte Ander and again Luciano Albertini in the lead roles turned Malasomma in the same year the film " One minute to midnight " and the 1926 film " preying on people ," in which, in turn, Hans Albers appeared next to the popular Italian silent film actor Carlo Aldini. Cooperation with Aldini led Malasomma in the following two films - " One against all " and " The Man Without a Head" - continued.
After Malasomma had been mostly turned Sensations and action movies, he turned in 1928 to the mountain drama. Based on a screenplay by mountain film specialist Arnold Fanck he staged with his compatriot Mario Bonnard the movie " The struggle for Matterhorn " in which Luis Trenker the Italian mountain guide Jean -Antoine Carrel plays the with the famous English climber Edward Whymper in 1865 in a bitter contest returns to the first ascent of the Matterhorn. The collaboration with Bonnard and Trenker two other mountain films were: " The Call of the North" (1929) and "The Son of the White Mountains " (1930 ).
After the introduction of sound Nunzio Malasomma went back to Italy, where he worked for the Cines in Rome several films - such as " L' uomo dall'artiglio " (1931 ) and "La cieca di Sorrento" (1934 ) - turned. From 1934 on, he worked alternately for Italian and German production companies. His next German film - the Luis Trenker film " Polar Storms" (1934 ) - he produced together with John Haussler for the Berlin-based company Patria. In the mid- 1930s slowed the public interest in the mountain films, Malasomma resorted to aesthetic petty melodramas and turned in quick succession films like " Red Orchid " (1938, with Olga Chekhova, Albrecht Schoenhals, Camilla Horn and Hans Nielsen ), "The Night the decision " (1938, with Pola Negri and Ivan Petrovich )," The pious lie " (1938, with Pola Negri and Hermann Braun ), " The Woman without a Past " (1939, with Sybille Schmitz and Albrecht Schoenhals ) and" by Fate Gone " ( 1941/42, again with Sybille Schmitz and Albrecht Schoenhals ). The Exotikfilm "From fate Gone ", which should attract after 1941 imposed performance ban on American films audience that movies like " Gone with the Wind " is no longer got to see the last film Malasomma end of the war in Germany was brought forth. In Italy, he worked again for the Cines and other production companies, often with stars such as Vittorio De Sica and Amadeo Nazzari.
His last films directed Nunzio Malasomma in the 1960s: the sword and sandal film " La rivolta degli schiavi " (1961) and the spaghetti western " Quindici forche per un assassino " (1968).