{{short description|Italian cinematographer}} {{Infobox person |name=Erico Menczer |birth_name=Erik Menczer |birth_date=8 May 1926 |birth_place=Fiume, Italy |death_date={{death date and age|df=y|2012|03|10|1926|05|08}} |death_place=Rome, Italy |occupation=Cinematographer }}
'''Erico Menczer''' (8 May 1926 - 10 March 2012) was an Italian film cinematographer.
Born in Fiume (later Rijeka) as '''Erik''', he was forced by the fascist phobia for the foreign culture to change his name.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|title=Addio al direttore della fotografia Erico Menczer|url=http://www.blitzquotidiano.it/cinema/addio-al-direttore-della-fotografia-erico-menczer-1157389/|accessdate=22 December 2013|newspaper=Blitz|date=15 March 2012}}</ref> At the end of the Second World War, when the city of Fiume became Yugoslav, he first moved to Padua, then to Genoa, and finally to Rome, where he began his film career.<ref name="obit"/>
After having worked as a camera operator, Menczer made his debut as a cinematographer in 1960 with the comedy film ''Le pillole di Ercole'' directed by Luciano Salce, with whom he had a professional association that characterized his career in the following decades.<ref>{{cite book|last=Andrea Pergolari|title=Verso la commedia: momenti del cinema di Steno, Salce, Festa Campanile|publisher=Firenze libri, 2002}}</ref> He also worked, among others, with Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Michelangelo Antonioni and Dario Argento.<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{cite news|title=I nudi di Menczer|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=14 June 1999|page=4}}</ref>
== Filmography == * Holocaust 2000 (1977)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|0578801}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Menczer, Erico}} Category:1926 births Category:2012 deaths Category:Italian cinematographers Category:People from Rijeka