THE LAST MOVIE PAINTER

L'ULTIMO UOMO CHE DIPINSE IL CINEMA

By Walter BENCINI

BERTA FILM - as SALES All rights, World

Art - Culture - Completed 2020

From Sergio Leone to Tarantino, a thrilling journey through the world of Renato Casaro, one of the most important living illustrators that the world’s film poster industry has ever known.
Feature lenght screener: https://vimeo.com/383495624/c1f1c49d9

Festivals
& Awards

Trieste Film Festival 2020
official selection
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Doc Market
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 52 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Walter BENCINI
    • Producer(s)
    • - - (Insekt Film)
    • Synopsis
    • A thrilling journey through the world of Renato Casaro, one of the most important living illustrators that the world’s film poster industry has ever known.
      The artist reveals sketches, memories, posters and personal feelings regarding the golden age of Italian cinema and its personalities. Extraordinary tales from a world that no longer exists, but which takes us far away, leaving behind an adventurous and all-consuming nostalgia.

      Featuring interviews with: Terence Hill, Dario Argento, Carlo Verdone, Aurelio De Laurentiis.

      Renato Casaro created the poster of hundreds of films. Among them:

      A fistful of dollars
      For a few dollars more
      The Good the bad and the ugly
      Once upon a time in the west
      Dances with wolves
      Conan the barbarian
      The Evil dead
      Once upon a time in America
      The last emperor
      Rambo
      Bud Spencer & Terence Hill Films
      The sheltering sky (un the nel deserto)
      Opera by Dario Argento