Mario Vulpiani

Mario Vulpiani

Born: February 15, 1927
in Rome, Italy
Mario Vulpiani (born 15 February 1927) is an Italian cinematographer and documentarist.

Born in Rome, Vulpiani began his career as assistant of the operator Enrico Chroscisky. In the fifties he worked mainly in the field of documentary films, also working as a director. In 1965, with a segment of the anthology film Marcia nuziale, Vulpiani started a critically appreciated collaboration with the director Marco Ferreri that includes the celebrated cult films Dillinger Is Dead and La Grande Bouffe. In the late sixties he collaborated with the postmodern painter Mario Schifano in his three experimental films. In the seventies he worked, among others, with Valentino Orsini, Damiano Damiani, Mario Monicelli and Carlo Lizzani. Starting from the eighties Vulpiani focused into less ambitious works, except for several collaborations with Gabriele Lavia.

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Movies for Mario Vulpiani...

La Grande Bouffe
Title: La Grande Bouffe
Character: L'autre copilote
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
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The Seed of Man
Title: The Seed of Man
Released: September 27, 1969
Type: Movie
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child.