Alberto De Martino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Film director, Screenwriter
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Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
About Alberto De Martino
- Alberto De Martino (12 June 1929 – 2 June 2015) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
- Born in Rome, De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where worked as a screenwriter, director and dubbing supervisor.
- De Martino's films as a director specialised in wellcrafted knock-offs of Hollywood hit films.
- These films were specifically created films in Western, horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market.
- The Telegraph stated that his best known of these film was probably The Antichrist.
- The Antichrist capitalized on the box-office appeal of The Exorcist (1973) and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than Jaws.
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