Spaghetti Western Directors, Screenwriters, Cinematographers

Spaghetti Western Director ~ Vito Bruschini

Vito Bruschini was director, assistant director, journalist, writer born in Rome on March 19, 1943. He worked as a screenwriter and assistant director on a number of films in the 1970s and directed and wrote the 1977 film “White Fang and the Kid”, which won the Jury Prize at the Giffoni Film Festival. In the 1980s, he wrote documentaries and cultural broadcasts for television and instructional videos for various editorial series. He has also taught directing at the Rosebud academy, a private school of cinema and television and has made television programs for the Sky platform.

He directed the internal publication of the State Railways Diario delle ferrovie d'Italia (1839-2000): dalla Napoli-Portici all'ETR500 Edizioni Efeso, 2000. He wrote and directed “Sotto un cielo di bombe”, a screening of a documentary on the bombing of San Lorenzo interspersed with stories told by 10 actors, represented as part of the "Festival del documentario storico", a Roman event in 2009. In 2009 he published the novel The Father - The Godfather of Godfathers. In 2011 Vallanzasca; in 2012, La strage. The novel of Piazza Fontana; in 2013, Criminal Education; in 2014 The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club. The Novel of Power; in 2015 The Conspirators of the Priory, all with Newton Compton Editori.

As mentioned above Vito’s only Spaghetti western he directed was 1977’s “Zanna Bianca e il grande Kid” (White Fang and the Kid).

BRUSCHINI, Vito [3/19/1943, Rome, Lazio, Italy -    ] – director, assistant director, journalist, writer.

White Fang and the Kid - 1977

Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Ramón Barreiro

Ramón Barreiro Vázquez was born in Castronuño, Castile and León, Spain on August 28, 1906. Barreiro was the son of the photographer Ramón Barreiro Barcala, first established in Mexico and then in Pontevedra. In 1925 he began to collaborate with his brother Enrique Barreiro Vázquez with the shooting of films and with his research with color cinema, such as the documentary Pontevedra, cuna de Colón, premiered at the Teatro Principal de Pontevedra in 1927. After the end of the Spanish Civil War he returned to Pontevedra in April 1939 and built his reputation with the book Metralla blanca del Madrid rojo (1939). He began a literary career, wrote a play for children, and published the book Nosotros los hombres (1943); He also contributed to the newspaper Informaciones. In the 1940s, he directed several documentary films, including the series “Retablo español”. In 1944 he directed his first feature film, “The Nephew of Buffalo Bill”, the first of his humorous and parody films.

Later in his career made programs on Spanish television such as ‘Club mediodía’ and ‘Teleclub’, returning to the cinema sporadically, such as working as a co-story writer on León Klimovsky's film “Torrejón City” in 1962.

In all he wrote stories and screenplays for ten films between 1944 and 1964. He also directed ten films between 1937 and 1970 and also acted in two films in 1944.

Ramón Barreiro died in Madrid, Spain on May 1, 1981, at the age of 74.

BARREIRO, Ramón (aka Ramon Barreiros) (Ramón Barreiro Vázquez) [8/28/1906, Castronuño, Castile and León, Spain – 5/1/1981, Madrid, Madrid, Spain] – director, writer, cinematographer, actor, son of the photographer Ramón Barreiro Barcala, brother of Enrique Barreiro Vázquez (Juan Enrique Barreiro Vázquez) [1899-1984]

The Nephew of Buffalo Bill – 1944 (co)

Torrejón City – 1962 [story writer]

 

Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~ Hans Burmann

Hans Burmann Sánchez was born in Bad Honnef,,Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Germany on August 9, 1937. The son of the film architect Siegfried Bürmann he came to the film industry in 1953 and worked his way up from camera assistant to second cameraman (1960) to chief cameraman (1970) for feature-length films.

In his early years, Burmann had photographed mostly unambitious entertainment productions for a mass audience and, with a workload of up to half a dozen films per year, was one of the most sought-after cinematographers in Iberian cinema. Above all, the director Mario Camus regularly engaged Burmann for his productions. Burmann's excursions into pretension-oriented art cinema include Camus's melancholic and poetic portrait of the time “The Beehive”, which has also attracted much international attention, and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Cuban portrait of time, society and travel, “Guantanamera”. In addition, the German-Spaniard had also photographed several socio-politically committed feature films (e.g. “The Holy Fools”, “Sandino”). His camera works for the films “Tesis – Der Snuff Film” and “Open the Eyes”, which were also much discussed internationally, also attracted a lot of attention.

Burmann occasionally photographed for Spanish television (series ‘Los camioneros’ [1973]). In 1988, he was nominated for the Spanish Film Award Goya, in the category Best Cinematographer, for his performance in “The Execution”. In 1992 he was nominated for “El rey pasmado” and the following year another “La marrana”.

In 2008, 71-year-old Hans Burmann largely withdrew into private life. His brother is the theatre and film architect Wolfgang Burmann while his son Pablo Burmann is also a cinematographer.

Hans Burmann was a cinematographer on two Spaghetti westerns: “Perché uccidi ancora” (Why Kill Again?) with Vitaliano Natalucci in 1965, “El más fabuloso golpe del Far West” (The Boldest Job in the West” in 1971 with Antonio Millan

BURMANN, Hans (aka Hans Burman) (Hans Burmann Sánchez) [8/9/1937, Bad Honnef,,Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Germany –     ] – producer, cinematographer, cameraman, actor, son of production designer Sigfrido Burmann (Siegfried Burmann) [1891-1980], brother of production designer Wolfgang Burmann (Wolfgang Burmann Sánchez) [1940-    ], father of cinematographer Pablo Burmann

Why Kill Again? – 1965 (co)

The Boldest Job in the West – 1971 (co)