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IL DEMONIO IS IN THE DETAILS
I’ve just read your beautiful Dahlia Lavì interview in VW 170 and I have to say it’s been a very interesting and fascinating reading. Her director Brunello Rondi (1924-1989) directed many other films after Il demonio (and be- fore it, he co-directed one with Paolo Heusch, Una vita violenta, based on a Pier Paolo Pasolini novel). He was the younger brother of a famous film critic, Gian Luigi Rondi, who, among
many other things, was for various years the director of the Venice Film Festival. Brunello, too, started as a film critic and then, before turning to directing, worked for Rossellini, Blasetti and, mostly, Fellini (since the time of La strada). His films af- ter Il demonio were maybe less interesting and more on the com- mercial side of the industry (like the women-in-prison picture Prigione di donne), but he was a director with ambitions, visual flair and great skill. Il demonio was filmed, I think, in Matera, a very particular
city (the ancient part of it was carved out of the rock) in Basilicata (aka Lucania), an Italian region. What was called Pullia in the in- terview, I think is Puglia, another Italian region bordering on Basilicata. The real story the film was based on happened in Puglia, in the Gargano.
Rudy Salvagnini Padova, Italy
Howard Vernon reads one of many letters, sure to come, from readers commending us for our extended coverage of ZOMBIE LAKE.
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