List of Italian film directors
The following is a list of film directors from Italy.
Kid Glove Killer
Kid Glove Killer is a 1942 crime film starring Van Heflin as a criminologist investigating the murder of a mayor.
The B film was the feature- length directorial debut of Fred Zinnemann.
Éric Rochat
Éric Rochat (October 18, 1936 in Paris – October 5, 2003 in Rio de Janeiro) was a French film producer, director and scriptwriter.
He is mostly known for his success in producing erotic movies.
Fred Hampton Jr.
Fred Hampton Jr.( born December 29, 1969) is an African- American political activist and the son of Fred Hampton Sr. His father was a Black Panther who was killed by the Chicago police.
Hampton's 19- year- old mother, Deborah Johnson, was nine months pregnant with him when Hampton Sr. was killed in her presence during the police raid of the early morning hours of December 4, 1969.
Hampton Sr. was 21 at the time of his death.
American Revolution 2
American Revolution 2 is a 1969 documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention and its aftermath.
Part of the film focuses on the creation of an alliance between the Young Patriots Organization and local Black Panthers.
On its release Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, while" New York Times" reviewer Roger Greenspun was more critical.
The film was released on DVD in 2007( along with its follow- up" The Murder of Fred Hampton") and received generally positive reviews.
The film was directed by Howard Alk and produced by Mike Gray.
Ebert writes that the film was created as a collective effort by the Film Group, a local company that generally made commercials, and released without any individual credits.
It has no narrator.
Edward Hanrahan
Edward Vincent Hanrahan( March 11, 1921 – June 9, 2009) was a Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney who had been groomed as a prospective successor to Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley.
His career was effectively ended after Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and member Mark Clark were murdered in a raid by police attached to his office in 1969.
Hanrahan was born in Coconut Grove, Florida and moved as a child to Chicago with his family.
He attended the University of Notre Dame.
During World War II, he served in an intelligence role in the United States Army Signal Corps.
After completing his military service, he attended Harvard Law School and earned his law degree in 1948.
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley supported his successful bid for an appointment as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
Hanrahan got the post after Daley told President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson
" Let me say, Mr. President, with great pride and honor, he's a precinct captain".
Running as a Democrat, he won a landslide election in 1968 for Cook County State's Attorney, winning support from White and African American voters.
Acting on the basis of a tip from an FBI informant( William O' Neal), 14 police officers assigned to Hanrahan's office staged a pre-dawn raid on December 4, 1969 to search for illegal weapons in the West Side apartment of Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panther Party.
Dozens of shots were fired and Hampton and Black Panther Mark Clark were both killed.
Despite guns found on the premises and police assertions that the Panthers had fired first, bullet hole markings presented by police in support of their claim turned out to be nail heads.
An investigation found that the police had fired between 82 and 99 shots during the raid, and the Panthers had fired at least one shot.
Hanrahan was indicted by a grand jury for obstructing justice and conspiracy to present false evidence, but was later acquitted.
A civil suit concluded in 1982 ruled that there was a government conspiracy to deprive the Black Panthers of their civil rights and awarded nearly$ 2 million to the survivors of the raid and the families of those killed.
The events leading up to the incident and the deaths of Hampton and Clark were the subject of the 1971 documentary" The Murder of Fred Hampton", and the material filmed by director Howard Alk in the immediate aftermath of the incident was used as evidence in the civil suit.
The Cook County Democratic Party declined to endorse Hanrahan in his bid for reelection as State's Attorney in 1972, but Democratic voters renominated him anyway.
The combined votes of Republicans and African American Democrats sufficed to elect his Republican opponent in the general election.
He ran for Mayor of Chicago in two Democratic Primaries, losing to Daley in 1975 and to Michael Bilandic in 1977; Hanrahan placed fourth each time.
He lost a race in the 1980s for alderman on the Chicago City Council.
Hanrahan returned to his law practice, which he continued until his death, at which time he still had two active cases.
Hanrahan died at age 88 on June 9, 2009 at his home in River Forest, Illinois due to complications from leukemia and old age.
He was survived by his wife of 55 years, their two sons and two daughters, and ten grandchildren.
The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Murder of Fred Hampton is a 1971 documentary film about the short life and death of Fred Hampton, a young African- American civil rights activist in Chicago and leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party.
During the film's production, Hampton was fatally shot on December 4, 1969 in a pre-dawn raid at his apartment by the Chicago Police Department.
Filmmakers Howard Alk and Mike Gray, director and producer, respectively, went to Hampton's apartment, which was unsecured, and took film footage of the crime scene.
This was later used to challenge news reports and police testimony about the events.
They also conducted investigative reporting into his death, which is included in the film; their conclusion is expressed in the title.
Abraão José Bueno
Abraão José Bueno( born 1977) is a Brazilian nurse and serial killer.
In 2005 he was sentenced to 110 years imprisonment for the murder of four children and the attempted murder of another four.
Story of O - Chapter 2
The Story of O 2( French: Histoire d'O: Chapitre 2) is a 1984 Franco- Spanish erotic drama film directed by Eric Rochat.
The script is a continuation of the film" Story of O"( 1975), an adaptation of the eponymous erotic novel published in 1954 by Pauline Réage.
Howard Alk
Howard Alk (1930 – January 1982) was a Chicago-based filmmaker, and an original co-founder of The Second City theater troupe.
In the 1960s he began to work in film with the Chicago Film Group, filming and directing documentaries, completing "American Revolution 2" (1969) and "The Murder of Fred Hampton" (1971).
He also collaborated for years with singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, producing films with him through 1978.

Question: Do both films The Murder of Fred Hampton and Story of O - Chapter 2 have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no