RIP Giorgio Mariuzzo

 

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Marco Giusti for Dagospia

January 18, 2023

The Italian genre cinema loses Giorgio Mariuzzo, 83, director of a series of bizarre films in the 1970s such as the musical "Quelli belli siamo noi" with Maurizio Arcieri, Orchidea De Santis, Loredana Berté, Ric and Gian, the comedian “Orazie Curiazi 3 – 2” with Gianni Agus, Lino Banfi, Gloria Guida, Ines Pellegrini, Elio Pandolfi, the gruesome erotic late western “Apache Woman”, signed by George McRoots with Al Cliver alias Pier Luigi Conti and the fake Indian Yara Kewa alias Clara Hopf, filmed in Viareggio in the Tyrrhenian Sea at Studios, "Mondo porno oggi" and the most recent but no less messy "Andy is Born".

Mariuzzo was also a prolific screenwriter for all kinds of films, from Lucio Fulci's infernal horrors, “E tu vivrai nel terrore. The Afterlife", "That villa next to the cemetery", to the more or less apocryphal Pierini, "Pierino medico della Saub" and "Pierini la peste alla riscossa" by Umberto Lenzi, to the TV series by Giorgio Capitani, his master of cinema, such as “The Restorer” with Lando Buzzanca filmed in 2012.

He had started writing for cinema in the 60s with a series of erotic films directed by Giuliano Biagetti, "Interrabang" with Haydée Politoff, Corrado Pani, Beba Loncar and "La svergognata" with Philippe Leroy and Leonora Fani, "La novizia", to then continue with the sexy comedy, "The Doctor Under the Sheet", "Three Under the Sofa", "The Teacher by the Sea With the Whole Class".

Fundamental was his meeting with Lucio Fulci, for whom he also wrote the TV series dedicated to Franco Franchi "A Man to Laugh". He was also very active in the Rai serial, from "Linda e il brigadiere" to "Il mastino", from "un cane maverick" to "Commesse", working with all the directors of the time, from Sergio Martino, Gianluigi Calderone, Luigi Perelli and Giorgio Capitani, with whom he managed to express a healthy craftsmanship that made him absolutely indispensable.

MARIUZZO, Giorgio

Born: 7/14/1939, Venice, Veneto, Italy

Died: 1/16/2023, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Giorgio Mariuzzo’s western – director, writer:

Apache Woman - 1976