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Dario Argento was born in Rome on September 7th 1940 (his father Salvatore is a producer, his mother, Elsa Luxardo, a famous photographer) and after a long journalistic experience as a critic for "Paese Sera"*, writes, together with Bernardo Bertolucci, the subject for “Once upon a time in the west” directed by Sergio Leone.
In 1970 he directs his first film, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, which becomes a blockbuster and determines his success worldwide.
After “Animal Trilogy", a television interlude with the series Door into darkness and the historical film The five days, Argento returns to thrillers with Deep Red in 1975.
The international success of the film and his following release, Suspiria (1977), have led to him being given the title of “master of horror”. With Dawn of the dead (1978) - as producer - he lays the foundations for the zombie genre, still very popular to this day.
Inferno (1979) and Tenebrae (1982) are also very popular with the public and in 1985 he directs another one of his best-known films, Phenomena, which brings his work closer to younger audiences.
At the same time he produces more worth mentioning cult films such as Demons (1985) and The Church (1989). With his works, Opera (1987), Sleepless (2001), Mother of Tears (2007) he continues experimenting with new technologies which lead to the use of the three-dimensional technique with Dracula 3D in 2012.
In 2013 he returns to television on Rai Movie* to present “100 pallottole d'Argento”* and in the same year he signs his first staged opera production, Macbeth, at the Coccia Theater in Novara.
His autobiography, published by Einaudi with the title “Paura” (transl. “Fear”), has also recently been published in France. The director will soon return to set to direct an old project of his titled Black Glasses.
*Italian daily newspaper (1949-1994)
*Italian tv channel
*Tv show, literally "100 Silver Bullets"
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Credits: translation italian/english: Erika Frat
