Sergio Leone (Sergio Leone)

Sergio Leone was born on January 3, 1929 (other sources - in 1921), Rome (Italy), the son of producer Vincenzo Leone, one of the pioneers of Italian cinema and screen star singer Francesca Bertini. In the film, Sergio Leone began work in mid-1940's, . was an assistant director at the Italian and American - who worked in Italy - directors, . including in Wilder, . F. Zinnemann, . R. Wise, . participated in the filming of paintings, . as "Kamo gryadeshiN" and "Ben-Hur",
. The second mid-1950's he began to write scripts for a quasi "gladiatorial" movie. In 1960, as directed by Sergio Leone completed staging "The Last Days of Pompeii", which filmed Bonnard M.. The first independent work was directed film "Colossus of Rhodes". He became famous as Sergio Leone as the "father" genre "spaghetti westerns": filmed them in 1964 under the pseudonym Bob Robertson, the film "A Fistful of Dollars", . the basis of which lay a plot tape Kurosawa's "The Bodyguard", . had the surprisingly large box office success, . developed in the pictures "a Few Dollars More" and "Good, . bad, . evil ",
. On the role of the protagonist director wanted to invite Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson, but eventually it has played Clint Eastwood, in the last film trilogy gleamed as Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach. In 1968, Leone was in Hollywood a blank check and put the film "Once in the Wild West", . funds and Bronson flicks, . painting on the door failed to collect a large cash and not very interested in the critics, . but now is considered one of the best westerns of the American cinema,
. Then in 1984, the director put the epic gangster saga "Once in America," with Robert De Niro in the lead role.
. Sergio Leone died of a heart attack April 30, 1989 in Rome, was finalized in large-scale and expensive setting with the participation of Soviet Filmmakers' Siege of Leningrad "
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It is worth noting that the film scores he wrote his classmate Leone, Ennio Morricone, Dean of the most successful composers who worked for the cinema. In memory of a famous director Clint Eastwood dedicated his film "Unforgiven."