Directing

Giovanni Fago

Born

1933-04-25 (93)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Giovanni Fago (born 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, recognized for his contributions to the Spaghetti Western genre. He directed Vengeance Is Mine (1967) and O' Cangaceiro (1970), both noted for their stylistic elements and narrative depth. Fago's work is appreciated for its unique take on the western genre, incorporating psychological complexity and moral ambiguity.

Known for

The Eroticist poster
5.7

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.

The Eroticist

1972

Vengeance Is Mine poster
6.8

Johnny Forest, bounty hunter, attempts to carry out his mother's dying wish that he bring in his outlaw brother, Clint, alive. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees to surrender ..... for now.

Vengeance Is Mine

1967

Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vamos a Matar - Storia e storie del western mediterraneo

2025

To Hell and Back poster
5.9

Johnny King, a rebellious drifter, sets out to avenge the death of his mentor and friend, Steve, after he has been murdered for his land by the Ward Brothers. After causing some trouble for the Wards, Johnny faces a new opponent, his outlaw friend, Meredith.

To Hell and Back

1968

Kidnap poster
5.2

This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation

Kidnap

1974

Un caso d'incoscienza poster
8.0

In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress (Brigitte Fossey), and the story takes off from there.

Un caso d'incoscienza

1985

Film credits

Behind the camera

Vengeance Is Mine poster
6.8

Johnny Forest, bounty hunter, attempts to carry out his mother's dying wish that he bring in his outlaw brother, Clint, alive. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees to surrender ..... for now.

Vengeance Is Mine

1967

To Hell and Back poster
5.9

Johnny King, a rebellious drifter, sets out to avenge the death of his mentor and friend, Steve, after he has been murdered for his land by the Ward Brothers. After causing some trouble for the Wards, Johnny faces a new opponent, his outlaw friend, Meredith.

To Hell and Back

1968

Kidnap poster
5.2

This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation

Kidnap

1974

Kidnap poster
5.2

This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation

Kidnap

1974

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo

2000

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo

2000

Pontormo - Un amore eretico poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

2004

Pontormo - Un amore eretico poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

2004

Il maestro di violino poster
7.0

The violin teacher at the Perugia Conservatory in Italy is loved by his female pupils and the rich ladies in town. Later we learn that he was a great concert soloist and had to give up his career because of his drunkard wife.

Il maestro di violino

1976

One Way poster
6.3

Story of a kind fisherman who wants to build himself a better future elsewhere. He crosses the border and settles in New York. But life for immigrants in 1970's New York is brutal and a downbeat cynical journey. He will have to fight for his life as he falls in love with a dangerous boss' girlfriend.

One Way

1973

Viva Cangaceiro poster
6.8

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …

Viva Cangaceiro

1969

Mai con le donne poster
10.0

Gino Chelli spends his days between work, his friend Beppe and his contentious girlfriend Tea. He spends the nights dreaming about her former classmate Liza, who now is a famous star. One day, she comes back in town.

Mai con le donne

1985

Mai con le donne poster
10.0

Gino Chelli spends his days between work, his friend Beppe and his contentious girlfriend Tea. He spends the nights dreaming about her former classmate Liza, who now is a famous star. One day, she comes back in town.

Mai con le donne

1985