Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 - 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, actor

Actor

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 and technician

Technician

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.

Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d'Asti

Montechiaro d'Asti

Montechiaro d'Asti is a town and comune in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 35 km east of Turin and about 13 km northwest of Asti....

. He worked during the era of the silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

, but he influenced many important directors in the international cinema, such as David Wark Griffith, in his Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance

Intolerance (film)

Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; a...

 (1916).

He died in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 on 27 June 1959.

Directing

• La glu (1908)
• Giordano Bruno eroe di Valmy (1908)
• Giulio Cesare (1909)
• La caduta di Troia (The Fall of Troy, 1910)
• Più forte che Sherlock Holmes (1913)
• Cabiria
  Cabiria
  Cabiria is a silent movie from the early years of Italy's movie industry, directed by Giovanni Pastrone . The movie is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War . It follows a melodramatic main plot about an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features...
  
  (1914)
• Tigre reale (1916)
• Il fuoco (The Fire, 1916)
• Maciste alpino (The Warrior, 1916)
• La guerra e il sogno di Momi (1917)
• Maciste atleta (1917)
• Hedda Gabler (1919)
• Povere bimbe (1923)

External links

• Giovanni Pastrone in Epdlp (Spanish)