Luciano Tovoli
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Luciano Tovoli (born 30 October 1936 in Massa Marittima, Italy) is an Italian cinematographer and filmmaker. With a career spanning over five decades, he is considered one of Italy's premier cinematographers, collaborating with numerous acclaimed filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Francis Veber, Dario Argento, Ettore Scola, and Julie Taymor.
Films that Tovoli has photographed include The Passenger (1975), Suspiria (1977), Titus (1999). He has been a longtime collaborator of Barbet Schroeder, having worked with the Iranian-born filmmaker's Reversal of Fortune (1990), Single White Female (1992), Before and After (1996), Murder by Numbers (2002), and Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008).
In 1983, Tovoli directed and cowrote Il Generale dell'armata morte based on a novel by Ismail Kadare, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimée.
Selected filmography
- Four Came to Kill Sartana (1969)
- We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
- Bread and Chocolate (1973)
- The Passenger (1975)
- The Sunday Woman (1975)
- The Last Woman (1976)
- The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
- Suspiria (1977)
- Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
- The Mystery of Oberwald (1981)
- Bianco, rosso e Verdone (1981)
- Tenebrae (1982)
- Beyond the Door (1982)
- Sweet Body of Bianca (1984)
- Police (1985)
- Les Fugitifs (1986)
- What Time Is It? (1989)
- Reversal of Fortune (1990)
- Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990)
- Single White Female (1992)
- Jackpot (1992)
- Monkey Trouble (1994)
- Kiss of Death (1995)
- Before and After (1996)
- Le Jaguar (1996)
- Desperate Measures (1998)
- The Dinner Game (1998)
- Titus (1999)
- The Closet (2001)
- Murder by Numbers (2002)
- Ruby & Quentin (2003)
- Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)
- Oceans (2009)
- How Strange to Be Named Federico (2013)
- Amnesia (2015)
