Giovanni Vitrotti

EN Texto en inglés Aún no hay artículo en tu idioma: extracto en inglés.

Giovanni Vitrotti ( 16 November 1882 – 1 December 1966) was an Italian cinematographer and film director who worked prolifically in Italian films from the silent era onwards. He made films in a number of other countries like Germany, Russia and Poland. Giovanni Vitrotti was born in Turin on 16 November 1882, the second child of Giuseppe and Virginia Lisa Vitrotti. A painter by training, he purchased his first camera at the age of twenty-one and applied what he had learnt during his artistic education to this new medium. He opened a photographic studio in Turin and worked as an art photographer. In 1903, he began working with Arturo Ambrosio, the founder of one of the oldest Italian film studios: Ambrosio Film. He worked as a photographer and cameraman on many of Ambrosio's productions, including The Last Days of Pompeii (1908), Il diavolo zoppo (1909), Didone abbandonata (1910), La Gioconda (1912), Il fornaretto di Venezia (1914), Teodora (1921), and numerous comedies starring Marcel Perez, Ernesto Vaser, and Gigetta Morano. In July 1907, Vitrotti married Angela Ercole, with whom he had four children. The following year, he travelled to Sicily to film the ruins caused by the Messina earthquake of 1908. In 1910, he won the Gold Medal for Best Documentary Film at the Brussels International Exposition.