Mario Bagnato

Movies

Cutthroat Island
Underwater Camera
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
The Sect
Underwater Camera
This stylishly photographed horror movie centers upon a beautiful, good-hearted schoolteacher whose life becomes a living hell after she is chosen to bear the son of Satan. Her horrible ordeal begins when an ancient enigmatic traveller places an ancient, supposedly extinct, insect up her nose. It crawls into her brain. She soon begins having terrifying dreams and more. When she learns the awful truth about her relationship with the Dark Master things get even worse. Still the baby is born and the poor woman faces a terrible and, genre-wise, surprising choice.
Rush
First Assistant Camera
In a post-nuclear holocaust world, a survivor roams the desert, fighting bandits and the forces of an evil warlord.
Viuuulentemente mia
Assistant Camera
Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison.
Venetian Lies
Assistant Camera
A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.
The Soup
Camera Operator
Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.
Fontamara
Assistant Camera
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
Il mostro
Assistant Camera
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.
The Desert of the Tartars
Assistant Camera
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
Notes Towards an African Orestes
Assistant Camera
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Assistant Camera
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
Woman Buried Alive
Assistant Camera
Duke Philippe married Cristina, daughter of a fisherman. But his brothers, seeing that these after marriage they would miss out inheritance, decide to get rid of the woman by imprisoning her in a tower and making the duke believe she died.
The Grand Duel
Assistant Camera
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
The Audience
Camera Operator
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
Without Family
Assistant Camera
Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.
Umano Non Umano
Self
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
The Seed of Man
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child.
Fire!
Mario
A man opens fire on the statue of the Virgin during the 15th August procession. Barricaded in his home with his wife and daughter, he continues to shoot wildly. He refuses to open the door to the carabinieri and he refuses everything he needs, including water.