1. Ruggero Deodato's career spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco, and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known for directing violent and gory horror films with strong elements of realism.
14 Facts About Ruggero Deodato
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Ruggero Deodato was an influence on film directors like Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth and Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Ruggero Deodato was born in Potenza, Basilicata, and moved to Rome with his family as a child.
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Ruggero Deodato went to Denmark and started as a musician playing piano and conducting a small orchestra at 7 years old.
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Ruggero Deodato grew up on a farm and at eighteen grew up in the neighborhood where Rome's major film studios are located.
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Ruggero Deodato created massive controversy in Italy and all over the world following the release of Cannibal Holocaust, which was wrongly claimed by some to be a snuff film due to the overly realistic gore effects.
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Ruggero Deodato was arrested on suspicion of murder, and was forced to reveal the secrets behind the film's special effects and to parade the lead actors before an Italian court in order to prove that they were still alive.
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Ruggero Deodato received condemnation, still ongoing, for the use of real animal torture in his films.
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Ruggero Deodato's Cut and Run is a jungle adventure thriller, containing nudity, extreme violence and the appearance of Michael Berryman as a crazed, machete-wielding jungle man.
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Ruggero Deodato made about two dozen films and TV series, his films covering many different genres, including many action films, a western, a barbarian film and even a family film called Mom I Can Do It.
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Ruggero Deodato was helping to develop a cannibal-themed video game called Borneo: A Jungle Nightmare.
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Ruggero Deodato was initially attached to The New York Ripper, The Last Shark, Casablanca Express and Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story.
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Ruggero Deodato was married to actress Silvia Dionisio from 1971 to 1979.
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Ruggero Deodato died in Rome on 29 December 2022, at the age of 83, from complications of pneumonia, kidney failure, and liver failure.