Luciano Tovoli
Italian cinematographer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luciano Tovoli, ASC, AIC[1] (born 30 October 1936) is an Italian cinematographer and filmmaker. With a career spanning over five decades, he is considered one of Italy's premier cinematographers, collaborating with numerous acclaimed filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Francis Veber, Dario Argento, Ettore Scola, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Julie Taymor.[2][3]
Luciano Tovoli | |
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Born | (1936-10-30) 30 October 1936 (age 87) |
Nationality | Italian |
Education | University of Pisa Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia |
Occupation(s) | Cinematographer, Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter |
Years active | 1961–present |
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Films that Tovoli has photographed include The Passenger (1975), Suspiria (1977), Titus (1999).[4][5] He has been a longtime collaborator of Barbet Schroeder, having worked with the Iranian-born filmmaker's Reversal of Fortune (1990), Single White Female (1992), Before and After (1996), Murder by Numbers (2002), and Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008).[6] He is a member of the American, Italian Society of Cinematographers, and an honorary member of the Swedish Society of Cinematographers and the European Federation of Cinematographers.[7][8]
In 1983, Tovoli directed and cowrote Il Generale dell'armata morte based on a novel by Ismail Kadare, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimée.