RIP Mino Giarda

 

Mino Giarda who was born in Venice, Italy on August 2, 1928. He an assistant to Carlo Lizzani on movies such as “Mussolini ultimo atto” (1974) – even co-director of “Storie di vita e malavita” (1975) according to IMDb – or to Damiano Damiani for “La moglie più bella” (1971) and many other directors, Mino Giarda finally directed his own movie in 1976, called “Per amore”. He turned to Ennio Morricone for writing the beautiful score of this love story between a pianist and a young girl, and to Luis Bacalov to play piano pieces by Chopin. But right after that, he stopped his career completely, at the age of 48. He died in Rome on March 20tha at the age of 95. He was an assistant director on two Spaghetti westerns: “A Fistful of Songs” and “For a Few Dollars Less” both in 1966.