Piero Schivazappa

Born in Colorno, Schivazappa entered the film industry in 1959 as an assistant director, collaborating with Valerio Zurlini, Mario Monicelli and Carlo Lizzani, among others. In 1963, he started collaborating with RAI for news reports and documentaries. Schivazappa made his feature film debut in 1969, with the controversial BDSM-themed The Laughing Woman, which at the time had many problems with censorship. Following the success of his 1973 miniseries Vino e pane, in the following years he focused on television films and TV-series. In 1986 Schivazappa directed Serena Grandi in the erotic drama La signora della notte , produced by Giovanni Bertolucci. Wikipedia contributors. "Piero Schivazappa." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 6 Jul. 2023. Web. 24 Nov. 2023.

Works

Girl with a Suitcase

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?

Release Date1961-02-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count100

We Met One Evening

An industrial worker from the mid-seventies encounters the stout daughter of a wealthy American businessman. The daughter falls in love with the worker and begins to pursue him.

Release Date1975-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Il processo di Savona

Release Date1967-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Lady of the Night

Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.

Release Date1986-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count33

Family Diary

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

Release Date1962-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count52

L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno

Release Date1968-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Odyssey

Odysseus' journey, told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

Release Date1968-03-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count9

An American Love

Angelo Fossalto teaches literature at the University of Urbino and leads a quiet life. the man is about to leave for the United States to give a series of lectures, but he will meet a girl who will make him lose his head ...

Release Date1994-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The Laughing Woman

Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.

Release Date1969-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count45

Odissea

Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

Release Date1968-03-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Johnny Belinda

Release Date1969-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Gold of Rome

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.

Release Date1961-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count9

The Corsican Brothers

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

Release Date1961-12-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count2

Il prato delle volpi

Release Date1990-12-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Il caso Fuchs

Release Date1966-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

Italian miniseries about a homicide that occurred in Rome during the 1920s.

Release Date1983-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Dov'è Anna?

Italian mini series

Release Date1976-01-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count3

Romance

Love story between a young man and a married woman. She's married to a businessman who's neglecting her. She would like to leave him but she's afraid of the age difference between her and her lover.

Release Date1971-10-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6