R.I.P. Giacinto Bonacquisti

Giacinto Bonacquisti was a scriptwriter who was also known to step occassionally in front of the camera and also directed a handful of films. His initial industry experience was as an ‘accomplice’ to Bruno Mattei, with whom he worked on Love Sacrifice (76, as writer), SS Girls (77, as writer and assistant director) and SS Extermination Love Camp (77, as writer and assistant director). After working on Gianni Martucci’s Blazing Flowers, he directed three films over a twelve year period, all of which remain obscure. L’albero della maldicenza (79) was a drama about five young men living in the mountains of Lazio and passing time, starring Marc Porel and Al Cliver (both of whom had featured in Blazing Flowers). Briganti (83), was a historical adventure about a young shepherd (Roberto Mura), who kills his fiancee’s brother and is forced to take refuge in the mountains, joining up with a group of brigands. And trhe 1991 film Escurial is so obscure that I can’t even find any plot information. None of these seem to have received any kind of international release.