Ottavio Scotti

Nascimento : 1904-02-23, Umag, Italy (now Croatia)

Morte : 1975-05-23

Filmes

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
Art Direction
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Web of the Spider
Production Design
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
Ischia operazione amore
Production Design
Gennaro runs a small boarding house in Ischia, the beautiful island in the gulf of Naples. Each member of his family is involved: his wife cooks, his daughter has a small boutique and his married son courts the old and rich patrons under his wife's enraged eyes.
Eu, Eu, Eu... E Os Outros
Production Design
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Samson and Gideon
Production Design
Consisting of two segments, the film is centered on two great Israelite leaders found in the Book of Judges.
Saul e David
Production Design
Esta história bíblica se concentra na conexão entre o Rei Saul (Norman Woodland), rei dos israelistas, e Davi (Glanni Garko), o menino pastor que matou Golias, que posteriormente tornaria-se Rei. O poder de Saul começou a enfraquecer enquanto escutava sua mulher invejosa. Eventualmente, Saul perde seu trono e sua vida enquanto Davi se torna Rei. Esta história épica impressionante foi parte de uma produção internacional de várias outras histórias Bíblicas do velho e Novo Testamento.
O Filho de Hercules Contra o Diabo do Deserto
Set Decoration
Anthar não descansará enquanto não fizer justiça! Em clima de 1001 Noites e locações na Argélia, Kirk Morris é Anthar, o filho do mitológico Hércules, empenhado em libertar um reino do deserto das mãos de Ganor (Mario Feliciani), tirano ambicioso e diabólico, que assassinou o soberano e mantém os herdeiros como reféns. Os pontos altos desta aventura são as acrobáticas lutas de espada, o herói enfrentando um rinoceronte e o confronto final num labirinto de espelhos, inspirado em A Dama de Xangai (The Lady from Shanghai, 1947), de Orson Welles.
Castle of Blood
Production Design
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night.
O Chicote e o Corpo
Art Direction
In the 19th century, a sadistic nobleman terrorizes the members of his family. He is found dead, but his ghost soon returns to haunt the residents of his castle.
The Monk of Monza
Production Design
Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.
O Filho de Spartacus
Production Design
The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, and ambitious, for Caesar's comfort. A fateful sea trip from Egypt to Rome forces Randus in captivity by mercenary troops, and leads a revolt by which he gets freedom for himself, and all the other slaves. Through an amulet he received from his late mother, a man who had fought by Spartacus' side, identifies the young man as Spartacus' and Varinia's son. At first reluctant to accept this story about his origins, Randus will be forced by the circumstances to repeat the feat of his father, twenty years later.
Os Filhos do Trovão
Production Design
An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
Pontius Pilate
Production Design
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
Os Mongóis
Production Design
During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.
Letto a tre piazze
Production Design
Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Production Design
Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Siege of Syracuse
Production Design
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
Howlers of the Dock
Production Design
Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.
The Apartment
Production Design
A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
The Jukebox Kids
Production Design
When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers.
Wild Cats on the Beach
Production Design
Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous American actress Rita is in search of her umpteenth husband. Leopoldo and Angelina from Sicily are on vacation in Rome where they meet the street smart Nicola.
O Escudo Romano
Production Design
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
Hell in the City
Set Decoration
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Hell in the City
Production Design
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
È arrivata la parigina
Production Design
An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
Toto and Marcellino
Production Design
Marcellino becomes an orphan and finds two uncles--a good old eccentric man and a villain.
Men and Wolves
Production Design
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
The Rival
Production Design
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
Sunset in Naples
Production Design
Two young men try to make it big as musicians.
Orient Express
Production Designer
Il padrone sono me
Production Design
In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
The White Angel
Production Design
Guido Carani, an engineer of noble descent, has just lost his son born to him by a chorus dancer, who, desperate, has become a nun. After a while he also loses his wife and daughter in a boating accident. Poor Guido is in despair, but soon he meets Lina, a woman who is a dead ringer for Luisa.
Caravan of songs
Production Design
In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.
Napoli terra d'amore
Production Design
The story of an honest young man entangled by a night singer in the Camorra.
Una parigina a Roma
Production Design
Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
In the Eddy of Sin
Production Designer
After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
Sedução da Carne
Production Design
Durante a primavera de 1866, a Itália está ocupada pela Áustria e prepara seu principal movimento de libertação. Em meio ao caos de Veneza, a Condessa Serpieri (Alida Valli), que participa da resistência, começa a nutrir um amor proibido: o tenente autríaco Franz Mahler (Farley Granger).
The Slave of Sin
Production Design
A former prostitute and a Polish infant are the only survivors of a train crash. Despite their mutual love, the woman's past comes back to haunt her.
Clothing the Naked
Production Design
An Italian drama based on the play by Luigi Pirandello.
Daughters of Destiny
Production Design
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
Production Design
Vortice
Production Design
Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.
Trouble for the Legion
Production Design
Noi peccatori
Production Design
Quem Não Tiver Pecado
Production Design
Northern Italian Stefano marries sweetheart Maria by proxy while working abroad in Canada. However, she is mistakenly accused of her sister's crime of abandoning her own child and, when Stefano finds out, he decides to call off their marriage.
È arrivato l'accordatore
Production Design
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
Processo contro ignoti
Production Design
Menzogna
Production Design
A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman.
Wanda the Sinner
Art Direction
Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
Wanda the Sinner
Production Design
Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
A Woman Has Killed
Production Design
In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film. With little means, a number of technical and financial problems and working Sundays with the pieces of film given to him bit by bit, Cottafavi shot Una donna ha ucciso, a minor film that marked his comeback to directing. (Gianni Rondolino)
Nobody's Children
Production Design
The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.
Verginità
Production Design
Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
The King's Guerrillas
Production Design
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
The Fighting Men
Production Design
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
Tormento
Production Design
Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.
Paolo e Francesca
Production Design
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.
Duello senza onore
Production Design
Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga.
Chains
Production Design
A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover.
The Flame that Never Dies
Production Design
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
The Earth Cries Out
Production Design
Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
Memórias de um Médico
Art Direction
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Amor de Palhaço
Production Design
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario Costa. The film stars Tito Gobbi and Gina Lollobrigida. It recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player in the troupe, he tells Canio about Nedda's betrayal. In a jealous rage Canio murders both Nedda and Silvio. The only actor in the cast who also sang his role was the celebrated Italian baritone, Tito Gobbi, but the film is largely very faithful to its source material, presenting the opera nearly complete.
L'uomo dal guanto grigio
Production Design
A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
Arrivederci, papà!
Production Design
Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
Rocambole
Art Direction
In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.
A cartuxa de Parma
Set Decoration
Parma, 1815. A duquesa de Sanseverina vive uma paixão devoradora mas não correspondida por seu sobrinho Fabrice. Considerado traidor por ter apoiado Napoleão, Fabrice é obrigado a entrar para o seminário para escapar às perseguições. Depois de matar um homem em legítima defesa, novamente deve fugir...
Fora da Lei
Production Design
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
The Simple Life
Production Design
Marco and his son Toto work in a Venetian gondola yard and maintain the old traditions of gondoliers. When a newly-arrived businessman decides he wants to buy the yard and demolish it, Marco and company want to fight to preserve their way of life. The businessman, however, knows Marco is badly in debt and uses this to try to leverage Marco out of business. Can tradition win out in the face of naked commercialism?
Lettere al sottotenente
Production Design
Rosalba
Production Design
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
Production Design
Our Dreams
Set Designer
Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi (María Mercader). Leo pretends then to be the son of a tycoon, and takes her in a luxurious restaurant.
Il nostro prossimo
Production Design
La maschera e il volto
Production Design
A husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality.
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
Production Design
Le vie del cuore
Production Design
1875. After completing her studies in boarding school, the young Duchess Anna Castellani, returns home and meets by chance a friend of her father, a count much older than herself.
La morte civile
Production Design
Young Rosalia marries the painter Corrado Palmieri, but gets disowned by her family, opposed to the marriage. Then during a fight, Corrado kills his brother in law and is sentenced to a life sentence.
Fedora
Production Design
This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
If I Was Honest
Production Design
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
Teresa Venerdì
Production Design
A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.
Luce nelle tenebre
Production Design
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.
I mariti
Production Design
In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
Cantate con me
Production Design
La mia canzone al vento
Production Design
I, His Father
Production Design
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.