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13 unusual facts about Tinto Brass


A Christmas Eve

A short film adaptation, updated to 1945 and titled Christmas Eve '45 (in vain of Tinto Brass' re-imagining of Boito's Senso) premiered on October 13, 2012 at the PollyGrind Film Festival.

Anna Ammirati

In the meantime, she also had minor acting roles starting with the miniseries Positano and in 1997, she applied at a casting session at Cinecittà organised by director Tinto Brass to find the lead actress for Monella.

Camillo Boito

In 1954, Senso was memorably adapted for the screen by Italian director Luchino Visconti and then, later, in 2002 into a more sexually disturbing adaptation by Tinto Brass.

Claudia Koll

Koll made her debut as a cinema actress in 1989, but achieved fame for her part in the erotic movie Così fan tutte (All Ladies Do It, 1992), directed by Tinto Brass.

Debora Caprioglio

Internationally, she is best known for playing the title character in the 1991 film Paprika by Tinto Brass and for being Klaus Kinski's girlfriend from 1987–1989.

Emanuelle Cristaldi

Born in Piombino, Barsotti made her debut in erotic/soft-core cinema, appearing among others in Tinto Brass' Paprika.

Katarzyna Kozaczyk

She moved to Italy in 1993 and her most prominent appearance (under the pseudonym Katarina Vasilissa) was in The Voyeur directed by Tinto Brass and released in 1994.

Nico B.

He is also the founder and owner of the infamous Cultvideotheek in Amsterdam and of Cult Epics, a distributor of cult movies in the genres arthouse, horror and erotica, specialized in the work of Walerian Borowczyk, Tinto Brass, Jean Genet, Fernando Arrabal, Rene Daalder, Abel Ferrara, Radley Metzger, Irving Klaw, and Bettie Page.

Piero Piccioni

Many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, and others.

Senso

Tinto Brass adapted the story in 2002 as Senso '45 after reading the novella and finding himself unsatisfied with Visconti's liberally adapted version.

Sex in film

Tinto Brass of Italy has dedicated his career to bringing explicit sexuality into mainstream cinema.

Stupid Dream

"Tinto Brass" is the only song on the album credited to the whole band, not just Wilson, and was named after Italian director Tinto Brass.

Valentine Demy

Born as Marisa Parra in Pisa, Demy started her film career in the late 80's, appearing often in main roles in several genre films, mainly of erotic genre, in which she was directed among others by Tinto Brass and Joe D'Amato.


Arrow Films

For over 15 years Arrow Films has pioneered the best directors from Europe and around the world, such as Denys Arcand, Tinto Brass, Luis Buñuel, Claude Chabrol, Jules Dassin, Vittorio De Sica, Abel Ferrara, Lasse Hallström, Eric Rohmer, Roberto Rossellini, Giuseppe Tornatore, Andrzej Wajda, and Wim Wenders.

Festivaletteratura

The 2005 fair was the set for the 2005 Tinto Brass movie Monamour, in which it was depicted the peculiarity of the exhibit.

Louis Nero

In The Rage (film 2008), shot at the end of 2007, he directs many big actors among the Academy Awards Faye Dunaway, Franco Nero, Tinto Brass, Corin Redgrave.

Maria Michi

She stopped filming until the 1960s and 1970s, when she did 12 films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty, her last film.