Giovanni Pastrone
Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician (1883-1959) · Italy · On the map · Directors · Died at 75
Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco, was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician.
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A typical day, 30 days to 18 September 2026
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La Moglie di ClaudioFilm, Director
Maciste atletaFilm, 1918Director1917The Light, Triptych of Modern LifeFilm, Writer1916
The FireFilm, Director, Writer1915
MacisteFilm, Writer1914
CabiriaFilm, Director, Writer1913
Stronger than Sherlock HolmesFilm, Director1912At the Cinema ShowFilm, Director1911
The Fall of TroyFilm, Director, Writer1910Agnese ViscontiFilm, Director1909Enrico IIIFilm, Director
Julius CaesarFilm, 1909Director1883Born13 September 1883People around Giovanni
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Bartolomeo Pagano Giovanni directed The Warrior (1916)
Pina Menichelli Giovanni directed The Fire and Tigre reale
Febo Mari Giovanni directed The Fire and Tigre reale- Felice Minotti Giovanni directed The Fire and The Warrior
Italia Almirante Manzini Giovanni directed Hedda Gabler (1920)
Vittorio Rossi Pianelli Giovanni directed Hedda Gabler (1920)
Gabriele D'Annunzio Also in Cabiria and The Fire
Domenico Gambino Giovanni directed Stronger than Sherlock Holmes (1913)
Emilio Ghione Giovanni directed Agnese Visconti (1910)
Gero Zambuto Also in La Moglie di Claudio and Hedda Gabler
Letizia Quaranta Giovanni directed Hedda Gabler (1920)
Oreste Bilancia Giovanni directed Hedda Gabler (1920)
Victor Vina Giovanni directed The Fall of Troy (1911)
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About this person
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".
