Paolo Heusch

Paolo Heusch 26 February 1924 16 October 1982 was an Italian film director and screenwriter Born in Rome Heush started his career immediately after the World War II as a script supervisor Between 1949 and 1957 he was active as an assistant director for over twenty films After directing a number of documentaries he made his feature film debut in 1958 with The Day the Sky Exploded the first science fiction film produced in Italy His third film as a director was Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory He was then asked to codirect Violent Life based on Pier Paolo Pasolinis novel of the same name He was hired by producer Moris Ergas to direct the film with Brunello Rondi as the produced wanted a technically gifted director to help the screenwriter direct his first film Heusch was often brought on to codirect films and works that were credited to other filmmakers such as The Commandant Che fine ha fatto Toto baby which is only credited to Ottavio Alessi and Toto dArabia which is credited to Jose Antonio de la Loma Heusch continued to work in other genres including heist films adventures and erotic dramas in the 1960s Heuschs last uncredited work was shooting some extra scenes for Massimo Dallamanos Venus in Furs for its 1975 rerelease