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Paolo Heusch (26 February 1924 – 16 October 1982) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Rome, Heush started his career immediately after the World War II as a script supervisor. Between 1949 and 1957 he was active as an assistant director for over twenty films. After directing a number of documentaries, he made his feature film debut in 1958 with The Day the Sky Exploded, the first science fiction film produced in Italy. His third film as a director was Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory. He was then asked to co-direct Violent Life. based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's novel of the same name. He was hired by producer Moris Ergas to direct the film with Brunello Rondi as the produced wanted a technically gifted director to help the screenwriter direct his first film.
Heusch was often brought on to co-direct films, and works that were credited to other filmmakers, such as The Commandant, Che fine ha fatto Toto baby? which is only credited to Ottavio Alessi and Toto d'Arabia which is credited to Jose Antonio de la Loma. Heusch continued to work in other genres including heist films, adventures, and erotic dramas in the 1960s. Heusch's last uncredited work was shooting some extra scenes for Massimo Dallamano's Venus in Furs for its 1975 re-release.
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14 August 1979
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
09 December 1951
Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".
20 December 1957
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.
24 April 1959
The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love.
12 August 1966
A spy's investigation leads him to Istanbul
16 December 1949
Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law.
21 December 1955
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco.
23 December 1963
The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still works, to his son and to his daughter-in-law.
17 October 1950
During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.
18 February 1953
The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.
20 December 1951
The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between two men, and now devotes herself to nursing.
29 March 1962
Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.
16 September 1949
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping.
09 November 1961
The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls.
09 December 1953
A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune.
29 December 1970
The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult.
26 September 1950
Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian.
04 September 1958
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
01 January 1968
The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.
01 August 1948
A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime crimes.
09 February 1955
The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
01 April 1953
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
28 January 1954
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
30 December 1952
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division.
28 September 1949
In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives.
17 November 1955
In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria.
20 August 1954
"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea".
07 October 1948
A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.
21 October 1949
Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.
24 December 1965
In the deserts of the Middle East, circa 1930s, a half-Arab-half-French adventurer named Aldar woos the Princess Yasmin while engaged in selling guns to warring factions.
21 March 1957
Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried thath
25 December 1973
The renowned director Franco Zeffirelli interviews Eduardo De Filippo to discuss the famous Neapolitan mask Pulcinella.
