Ruggero Deodato
Birthday: 7 May 1939, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Ruggero Deodato was born on May 7, 1939, in Potenza, Italy, and grew up outside Rome. One of his close friends at the time was Renzo Rossellini, the son of famed Italian director Roberto Rossellini. K ...Show More
I make films that people call "horror" because I want to make films about real things that happen in Show more
I make films that people call "horror" because I want to make films about real things that happen in the world, and most real things aren't very nice. Hide
[on the animal deaths in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)] I am sorry they have been killed. But you have t Show more
[on the animal deaths in Cannibal Holocaust (1980)] I am sorry they have been killed. But you have to understand I come from the countryside in Italy. So when we were hungry, we killed and ate pigs and chickens. That's what the real villagers did who were in the film--they ate everything we killed. But also, when I made this film, I was in another mentality. It seemed natural to show this. It was like when our grandparents died their bodies would be on display to begin with, but now the bodies go straight into the ground. Things change and we have a different mentality about things like death. Hide
Ruggero Deodato's FILMOGRAPHY
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Ruggero Deodato'S roles
The Italian Cannibal
