Spaghetti Western Director ~ Giovanni Bufalini
Giovanni Bufalini is an Italian producer, director,
assistant director, writer and film actor. He works for Insolita Film. He
attended VIII° Corso RAI SCRIPT in Rome and graduated in 2004.
Giovanni has had an interest in film since the age of
ten. He moved from his hometown to Milan in the early 1990s where he worked as
a professional illustrator. He also took up singing and began his career as an
actor appearing in local theater plays.
He then began experimenting making video films and
released his first film “Marasma Milano” in 2001. He graduated from Civic
School of Cinema, Television and New Media in Milan and then moved to Rome
where he attended the above mentioned VIII° Corso RAI SCRIPT course.
His love of westerns comes from his father where they
attended the cinema for Bud & Terence. The Dollar Trilogy was seen on TV
every time Leone's films were played. Add to it that Orvieto, Tuscia in
particular, is the Italian Louisiana as I always say. In my youth it was
therefore easy to superimpose some vintage American atmospheres with what we
lived on the sunny country roads. I grew up riding horses, because we had them
available in the family. Then, in adulthood, I also began to get passionate
about western shooting with real vintage weapons.
Since 2001 Bufalini has directed forty-four films,
written for forty-five and acted in fourteen.
Giovanni’s directed two Spaghetti westerns: “Last Light
Mile” in 2014 and “Never Dies” in 2020. He also directed the Birr Alfina beer
western commercial ‘Birralfina Triello’ in 2024 a takeoff on “The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly” showdown.
BUFALINI, Giovanni [12/11/1973,
Orvieto, Italy - ] – producer;
director, assistant director, writer, film actor, married to ? (2017- ).
Last Light Mile -
2014
Never Dies – 2020
Spaghetti Western
Screenwriters ~ J. Joachim Bartsch
Julius Joachim
Bartsch was born on September 13, 1903, in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. Bartsch
is a German screenwriter, director, and editor known for his contributions to
mid-20th-century German genre cinema, particularly through screenplays for
crime thrillers, adventure films, and Western adaptations in the 1950s and
1960s.
Bartsch began his
career in the late 1930s and 1940s by directing short films before shifting his
focus primarily to screenwriting for feature productions in post-war West
Germany. He became a key figure in popular series based on English author Edgar
Wallace, contributing scripts to films such as “Face of the Frog” (1959), “The
Terrible People” (1960), and “The Sinister Monk” (1965), which helped establish
the successful Rialto Film adaptations of Wallace's mystery novels. Bartsch
also played a significant role in the Karl May Western cycle, co-writing
screenplays for major entries including “The Desperado Trail” (1965) and “The
Last Tomahawk” (1965), which featured international stars and contributed to
the genre's popularity in Europe during that era.
His work extended to
other genres, including war dramas like “U47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien” (1958)
and various crime and adventure pictures, reflecting the diverse output of
German commercial cinema in the Wirtschaftswunder period. Bartsch died on
November 23, 1965, in Munich, leaving behind a legacy of prolific contributions
to escapist entertainment films that achieved widespread audience appeal.
J. Joachim Bartsch
as mentioned above co-wrote the screenplays for two German Karl May Winnetou films:
“Der letzte Mohikaner” (The Last Tomahawk) in 1964 with Roberto Bianchi
Montero, JoséAntonio de la Loma and Giovanni Simonelli and “Winnetou III” (The
Desperado Trail) in 1965 with Harald G. Peterson.
BARTSCH, J. Joachim (aka H.J. Bartsch) (Julius
Joachim Bartsch) [9/13/1903, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France – 11/23/1965,
Munich, Bavaria, Germany] – director, writer, film editor.
The Last Tomahawk – 1964 (co)
The Desperado Trail – 1965 (co)
Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~
Federico Caddeo
Federico Caddeo was born in Rome on
March 27th and is a director who works in the field of documentary
and social cinema. He is interested — among other things — in themes related to
the cinematic past, genre, countercultures, and films considered
"cult".
Among his most important works we
remember here “Around the World in 16 Years” (2016), a docufilm on Gualtiero
Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, screened at the Lucca Film Festival.
In 2019 he shot the documentary “All
the Colors of Giallo”, telling the story of the Italian thriller. “In the Name
of Hate” (2025), written, produced and directed by him, is a tribute to the
film “Shaved Heads” (1993, directed by Claudio Fragasso, scripted by Rossella
Drudi), and is dedicated to Rossella Drudi herself. "Painted Screams"
(2025) is a tribute to the film “The House with Laughing Windows” (1976) by
Pupi Avati, which is considered a cult of Italian horror cinema. Among the
testimonies in the documentary there is an unpublished interview with Lino
Capolicchio, the lead actor of the original film, who worked with Avati.
Caddeo was a photographer on two short
western related documentaries for Wild East “Vengeance Rides a Horse” in 2009
and “His Name Is Sabata” in 2013 with Francesco Biancu Biancone.
CADDEO, Federico [3/27/19??, Rome,
Lazio, Italy – ] – producer,
director, writer, cinematographer, film editor, actor, founded ‘Freak-O-Rama’
[2006].
Vengeance Rides a
Horse - 2009
His Name Is Sabata –
2013 (co)
