Giovanni Vitrotti

Giovanni Vitrotti (1874–1966) 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
Giovanni Vitrotti in Caucasus chokha.
Born	1 May 1874 Turin, Italy
Died	1 December 1966 (aged 92) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation	Cinematographer Film director
Years active	1906 - 1953

Selected filmography

Cinematographer

• The Last Days of Pompeii (1908)
• The Homecoming of Odysseus (1922)
• The Ravine of Death (1923)
• The Maharaja's Victory (1923)
• Quo Vadis? (1924)
• The Man on the Comet (1925)
• Frisian Blood (1925)
• Ship in Distress (1925)
• Hunted People (1926)
• Lives in Danger (1926)
• The Priest from Kirchfeld (1926)
• The Woman from the Folies Bergères (1927)
• Behind the Altar (1927)
• Forbidden Love (1927)
• The Merry Farmer (1927)
• The Last Performance of the Circus Wolfson (1928)
• Vienna, City of My Dreams (1928)
• Villa Falconieri (1928)
• Folly of Love (1928)
• A Girl with Temperament (1928)
• The Sinner (1928)
• Leontine's Husbands (1928)
• The Third Confession (1929)
• I Lost My Heart on a Bus (1929)
• Two People (1930)
• Mountains on Fire (1931)
• When the Soldiers (1931)
• A Storm Over Zakopane (1931)
• Zaganella and the Cavalier (1932)
• The Gift of the Morning (1932)
• Three Lucky Fools (1933)
• Villafranca (1934)
• The Four Musketeers (1936)
• The Countess of Parma (1936)
• Forbidden Music (1942)
• The Son of the Red Corsair (1943)
• Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943)
• Buffalo Bill in Rome (1949)
• Against the Law (1950)

Bibliography

• Bertellini, Giorgio. Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press, 2010.

External links

• Giovanni Vitrotti at IMDb