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Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò.
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia è stato un regista, sceneggiatore e fotografo italiano. Regista prolifico, Bragaglia portò nel cinema italiano l'amore per il nonsense e il surreale e moduli di lavoro di tipo efficientista, già comuni negli altri paesi ma ancora sconosciuti in Italia, dove il cinema continuava ad avere connotazioni artigianali.
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia was born on 8 July 1894 in Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Amore (1935), Barbablù (1941) and L'amore si fa così (1939). He died on 3 January 1998 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Hannibal ( Italian: Annibale) is a 1959 Italian historical adventure film based on the life of Hannibal, starring Victor Mature in the title role. The film was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. It marks the first film pairing of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer under their real names.
In 1918, with Carlo Ludovico, he founded La Casa d’Arte Bragaglia, the first Italian example of a private gallery where the great artists of the 1900’s could exhibit their works. In 1930, the brothers separated and each set out on his own career, following his own interests.
Hannibal: Directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer. With Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam, Milly Vitale. During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.
Over his over 40-year-long career as a filmmaker, Carlo Lucovico Bragaglia is most fondly remembered in his native Italy for a string of popular comedies starring Toto, including Toto le Moko (1949) and Le Sei Mogli di Barbalu (1950), but he also directed films of other genres including dramas, melodramas, and sword and sandal adventures.
