Franco Brocani

Known for Directing

9/10/1938

Murazzano, Piedmont, Italy

Biography

Franco Brocani was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was known for his avant-garde and experimental approach to cinema. Brocani directed films such as Necropolis (1970), which explored themes of death and the supernatural. His work often challenged traditional narrative structures, contributing to the experimental film movement in Italy.

Known For (3 credits)

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

6.8

Movie

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

2007

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.

6.5

Movie

Umano non umano

1969

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.

Movie

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

1969

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.