Augusto Genina
Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director. Biography. Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the "Il Mondo" Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua eccellenza". In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film "Miss Europe". He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before  his return to Italy. He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by "Lo squadrone bianco" and in 1940 by "The Siege of the Alcazar", both Fascist propaganda films. In 1953, he filmed "Three Forbidden Stories", another version of the real accident depicted by Giuseppe De Santis one year before in "Rome 11 o'clock" ("Roma ore 11").