Carlo Leva

Carlo Leva

Born: February 27, 1930
Died: April 4, 2020
in Bergamasco, Italy
Carlo Leva (27 February 1930 – 4 April 2020) was an Italian production designer. After beginning his career as second assistant art director in Genoa on the set of The Walls of Malapaga, Leva studied Architecture in Rome, specializing in production design, costume design and set decoration for movies and advertising.

In 1962, Leva was hired as assistant art director on Robert Aldrich's Sodom and Gomorrah, where he met second unit director Sergio Leone, who later hired him as assistant art director on A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and as set decorator on Once Upon a Time in the West.[1] He befriended also director Enzo Muzii, with whom he worked on movies such as Something Like Love, and later worked with many other directors, such as Federico Fellini, Dario Argento (for The Cat o' Nine Tails) and Carol Reed.

In 2017, Leva took part in the documentary film Sad Hill Unearthed, narrating the reconstruction of the cemetery scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Movies for Carlo Leva...

Sad Hill Unearthed
Title: Sad Hill Unearthed
Character: Self - Assistant Art Director (1966)
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.
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Por un puñado de sueños
Title: Por un puñado de sueños
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
In the 60s and half of the 70s, Almeria was the Hollywood of the South Europe.
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Title: Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Character: Self - Art Director
Released: September 22, 2001
Type: Movie
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.
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Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret
Title: Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret
Released: April 11, 1995
Type: Movie
A finishing-school graduate learns about her late mother's affair with the handyman.
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Una macchia rosa
Title: Una macchia rosa
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
A photographer comes back to Italy after a trip to India and struggles to adjust to his new life.