Paolo Cavara
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paolo Cavara has been a screenwriter and a movie director. He was born in Bologna(Italy)in 1926. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paolo Cavara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.
Stay as You Are

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Mondo Cane

A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
The Naked Maja

Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. Inspector Lomenzo investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children’s book "Shock-Headed Peter" have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model and a surveillance expert to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful.
Plot of Fear

The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love.
La locandiera

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
The Black Belly of the Tarantula

Two friends help Sam Houston work for Texas statehood. Johnny Ears and his deaf-mute sidekick Erastus "Deaf" Smith go after a Mexican general under orders from Germany to agitate the populace.
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears

A struggling chef and a kind-hearted thief form an unlikely bond on the streets of Rome, finding hope and a chance to rebuild their lives together.
Il lumacone

A Sicilian (Turi Ferro) feels his masculinity threatened when his son returns with an androgynous girlfriend whom everyone else assumes to be male.
Virility

A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
Women of the World

The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called “La Bella Otéro”. The history of a Spanish actor, who - despite being born poor - became a symbol of the Belle Époque and one of the first dives of silent cinema.
La bella Otero

In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drifts from the snowy skies, falling ever closer to earth and a waiting German patrol car. Suddenly shots ring out from a hidden sniper, the Germans are killed, and the parachutist scurries away into the forest. The sniper is a woman, the number one partisan terrorist on the German hit list, and her adversary is the German number one exterminator sent direct from berlin to eliminate her. The battle is on, orders from high command - capture her… alive. Both are professional, but now the hunter becomes the hunted.
The Ravine

A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.
The Wild Eye

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.