(28 January 1892 â 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.
Born in Rome, was a drama critic and wrote comedies for ' magazine, under advise of switches to movies for , which produces his first film '. In 1929 moved to France. While there, he directed Louise Brooks in the early French talkie Miss Europe, which was her only French film. He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy.
He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 for ' and in 1940 for The Siege of the Alcazar, both Fascist propaganda films.
In 1953, he filmed Three Forbidden Stories, another version of the real accident depicted by one year before in ' (').
released many films.