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Alfonso Brescia
Birth Name:Alfonso Brescia
Birth Date:6 January 1930
Birth Place:Rome, Italy
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Occupation:Director
Other Names:Al Bradley

Alfonso Brescia (6 January 1930 – 6 June 2001) was an Italian film director. Brescia began working in film against his father's wishes, and eventually directed his first film Revolt of the Praetorians in 1964.[1] Brescia worked in several genres in the Italian film industry, including five science fiction films he directed following the release of Star Wars. Brescia's work slowed down towards the late 1980s, and his last film Club Vacanze could not get distribution.

Biography

Alfonso Brescia was born in Rome on January 6, 1930. Brescia was the son of a film producer and entered the film business against his father's will. His father had him work as a production driver, which involved getting up early to persuade him against entering the business which did not work. He began work as an assistant director as well as working in production offices, eventually directing his first film Revolt of the Praetorians in 1964.

Following the release of Star Wars, he shot five science fiction films in a row, , Battaglie negli spazi stellari (aka Battle of the Stars[2]), La guerra dei robot, Star Odyssey and The Beast in Space. The Beast in Space was a science fiction pornography film based on Walerian Borowczyk's The Beast. In the 1980s, with the decline of genre cinema, Brescia's output drastically diminished. His final works included Iron Warrior and Miami Cops and Omicidio a luci blu. He directed his last film in 1995, Club Vacanze, which failed to interest a distributor, making it the only film he lost money on.

Brescia died in Rome on May 5, 2001.

Style

Italian film historian Roberto Curti described Brescia as "a hack, but a reliable one". Curti referred to Brescia as "one of the most prolific and versatile Italian filmmakers of the 1970s". Brescia worked in popular film genres of their respective eras in Italy, including sword and sandal films, Westerns, war films, mondo films, gialli, erotic films, superhero films, children's films, and science fiction films.

Selected filmography

Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.

Title YearCredited as Notes
width=6% Director!width=6% Screenwriter!width=6% Screen story writer!width=6% Other
Gladiators 71962Assistant director
The Magnificent Gladiator1964
1965
1965[3]
30 Winchester per El Diablo1965[4]
Days of Violence1967
Battle of the Amazons1973
Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women1974[5]
Blood and Bullets1976
1979
Iron Warrior1987
[6]
Battle of the Stars[7] [8]
War of the Robots (film)[9]
Star Odyssey[10]
[11]

Notes

References

Notes and References

  1. Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. .
  2. Book: Battaglie negli spazi stellari. 1978.
  3. Web site: La Colt è la mia legge (1965). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 9 September 2019. Italian.
  4. Web site: 30 Winchester per El Diablo (1965). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 8 September 2019. Italian.
  5. Gomarasca. Manlio. Beyond the Screen. Il cinema di Ovidio G. Assonitis. Nocturno Dossier. 82. May 2009. 20.
  6. Web site: Anno zero - Guerra nello spazio (1977). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Italian. 29 August 2019.
  7. Book: Battaglie negli spazi stellari. 1978.
  8. Web site: scheda. Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 31 August 2019.
  9. Web site: La guerra dei robot (1978). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Italian. 29 August 2019.
  10. Web site: Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio (1979). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Italian. 29 August 2019.
  11. Web site: La bestia nello spazio (1980). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Italian. 29 August 2019.

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