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Filmmaker · Italy

Giovanni Pastrone

Died in 1959

Giovanni Pastrone was born in 1883 in the Asti region. Trained in accounting and the violin, he was hired as an accountant by a Turin film production and trading company, Carlo Rossi & C., then ran Itala Film, founded in 1908. He signed some of his films with the pseudonym Piero Fosco. He later left the cinema to devote himself to medical research and died in Turin on 27 June 1959.

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