Giovanni Pastrone
Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician (1883-1959)
Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco, was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician. He worked during the era of the silent film and influenced many important directors in the international cinema with Cabiria, such as David Wark Griffith in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). Martin Scorsese believes that Pastrone's work in Cabiria can be considered as the invention of the epic movie and he deserves credit for many of the innovations often attributed to D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Among those was the extensive use of a moving camera, thus freeing the feature-length narrative film from "static gaze".
Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 8 films (1911–1917) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 1 other record (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).
| Year ▲ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | La caduta di Troia AKA The Fall of Troy ▶ | Luigi Romano Borgnetto; Giovanni Pastrone | ||||
| 1914 | Cabiria | Itala Film: Publisher | 1:18:00 | 16mm | B&W | silent |
| 1915 | MACISTE. | Itala Film. | 1 reel | B&W | silent | |
| 1915 | Marvelous Maciste ▶ | Luigi Romano Borgnetto; Vincenzo Denizot; Leone Papa; Giovanni Pastrone; Clementina Gay; Agnes Fletcher Bain; Bartolomeo Pagano; Amelia Chellini | ||||
| 1916 | Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) AKA The Fire ▶ | Giovanni Pastrone | ||||
| 1916 | Tigre reale ▶ | Valentina Frascaroli; Febo Mari; Giovanni Verga; Pina Menichelli; Giovanni Pastrone; Alberto Nepoti | 80 min | B&W | ||
| 1917 | La guerra ed il sogno di Momi AKA The War and the Dream of Momi ▶ | Segundo de Chomn; Giovanni Pastrone | ||||
| 1917 | The Warrior ▶ | Giovanni Pastrone; Fido Schirru; Bartolomeo Pagano; Valentina Frascaroli; Enrico Gemelli |