Biography
Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director. Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua eccellenza".
In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film Miss Europe. 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 by Lo squadrone bianco and in 1940 by The Siege of the Alcazar, both Fascist propaganda films.
In 1953, he filmed Three Forbidden Stories, another version of the real accident depicted by Giuseppe De Santis one year before in Rome 11 o'clock (Roma ore 11).
Filmography
all 46
Movies 46
Director 40
Writer 5
My Darned Father (1958)
Occhi senza luce (1956)
Frou-Frou (1955)
Maddalena (1954)
Three Forbidden Stories (1952)
Devotion (1950)
Heaven Over the Marshes (1949)
Bengasi (1942)
The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
Castles in the Air (1939)
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire (1937)
Frauenliebe – Frauenleid (1937)
Flowers from Nice (1936)
The Phantom Gondola (1936)
White Squadron (1936)
Vergiß mein nicht (1935)
Do Not Forget About Me (1935)
We Are Not Children (1934)
Non son gelosa (1933)
Ne sois pas jalouse (1933)
The Woman Dressed As a Man (1932)
The Darling of Paris (1931)
The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
Miss Europe (1930)
Paris Cinéma (1929)
Latin Quarter (1929)
Love's Carnival (1929)
Das Mädchen der Strasse (1928)
The Story of a Little Parisian (1928)
Die weisse Sklavin (1927)
Die Gefangene von Shanghai (1927)
Addio giovinezza! (1927)
L'ultimo lord (1926)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1925)
Il corsaro (1923)
L'innamorata (1920)
Lo scaldino (1920)
La maschera e il volto (1919)
The Wife He Neglected (1918)
Addio giovinezza! (1918)
Lucciola (1917)
La signorina Ciclone (1916)
Jealousy (1915)
La Fuga Dei Diamanti (1914)
Romeo e Giulietta (1912)
Beatrice d'Este (1912)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1892-01-28
Deathday1957-09-18 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
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