{{Short description|Italian film director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox person | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1940|06|18}}<ref>{{cite web|author=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769349/ |title=Romano Scavolini |publisher=IMDb |accessdate=16 April 2013}}</ref> | birth_place = Fiume, Italy | occupation = Film director, film producer, scriptwriter, cinematographer | notable_works = ''Nightmare'', ''A White Dress for Marialé'' | years_active = 1958–present }}
'''Romano Scavolini''' (born 18 June 1940) is an Italian film director and the younger brother of screenwriter Sauro Scavolini.
==Career== He has been directing since the 1960s. Most of his films are shot independently and with an experimental style.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.tiscalinet.it/aclabor/monogra/scavol.htm |title=Le belle prove di Romano Scavolini – Il cinema Underground |first=Bruno |last=di Marino |work=Tiscalinet |access-date=11 August 2019 |language=it}}</ref> Following his return from Vietnam where he was a freelance photographer, director Romano Scavolini returned to his native Italy where he started his film career again as a genre filmmaker.<ref>{{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1476629605 |year=2017 |page=58}}</ref> His best-known horror films are ''Nightmare'' (1981), a gruesome horror film that was banned as a video nasty in the UK, and his 1972 ''A White Dress for Marialé''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/hysterialives/Hysteria/slasher_nasties_4.html |title=A-Z of Video Nasties |work=Hysteria Lives! |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''The Devastated One'' (''I devastati'') – 1958/1959 * ''Blind Fly (A mosca cieca)'' (''Ricordati di Haron'') – 1966 * ''The Dress Rehearsal'' (''La prova generale'') – 1968 * ''Entonce'' – 1969 * ''{{Ill|L'amore breve|it}}'' (''Lo stato d'assedio'') (also known as ''State of Siege'' – ''Besieged'') – 1969 * ''The long march'' (''La lunga marcia'') * ''A White Dress for Marialé''; aka ''Un bianco vestito per Marialé'' (also known as ''Spirits of Death'') – 1972 * ''Heart'' (''Cuore'') – 1973 * ''Your Honor'' (''Servo suo'') – 1973 * ''The Savage Hunt'' (also known as ''Condor's Run'') – 1980 * ''Nightmare (1981 film)'' (also known as ''Nightmares in a Damaged Brain'' or ''Blood Splash'') – 1981 * ''Dog Tags'' – 1981 film) * ''Ustica: a thorn in the heart'' (''Ustica. Una spina nel cuore'') – 2001/2002/2003 * ''"Che" The Last Hours'' (''Le ultime ore del Che'') – 2003 * ''Apocalisse delle scimmie'' – A TRILOGY – 2004/2005/2006/2007/2008 * ''Two Families'' – 2007 * ''Two Days'' – 2012
as interviewed: * ''Ban the Sadist Videos!'' – 2005 * ''The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal'' – 2007
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{iMDb name|0769349}} * [http://www.romanoscavolini.net/ Official website]
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