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Filmmaker · Brazil

Vittorio Capellaro

Died in 1943

Vittorio Capellaro was born on 21 October 1877 at Mongrando, in Piedmont. Raised by an uncle and trained in watchmaking according to the Itaú Cultural encyclopaedia, he made a career in the theatre and came to Brazil on tour with Italian companies, before settling there at around the age of forty. There he produced, directed and acted in adaptations of Brazilian novels of the previous century; he built himself a studio in 1928 and left for Rio in 1937, according to the same encyclopaedia. In 1943, recognised as Italian, he was arrested and beaten by the police, and died shortly afterwards.

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