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Paolo Carnera. Paolo Carnera (born 2 April 1957) is an Italian film cinematographer. Born in Venice, Carnera attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome between 1980 and 1982, studying under Carlo Di Palma. [1] Between the eighties and the nineties he worked in many low-budget first and second works, including the debut of ...
French [1] Budget. € 11 million. Box office. $7.3 million [2] Io capitano ( lit. 'Me Captain' in Italian) is a 2023 drama film directed by Matteo Garrone, from a screenplay written by Garrone with Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Ceccherini and Andrea Tagliaferri.
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May 3, 2024 · Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated drama “Io Capitano,” about the odyssey of two young African men who decide to leave Dakar to reach Europe, and Paola Cortellesi’s feminist dramedy “There ...
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Primo Carnera was born in Sequals, then in the Province of Udine, now in the Province of Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giuliaat the north-easternmost corner of Italy. On 13 March 1939, Carnera married Giuseppina Kovačič (1913–1980), a post office clerk from Gorizia. In 1953, they received dual citizenship. They settled in Los Angeles, where Carnera ope...
Overview
Carnera was touted in America as being 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) tall, and thus the tallest heavyweight in history (up until that time), but he was actually 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) tall. He fought at as much as 275 pounds (125 kg). Jess Willard who stood 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) was the tallest world heavyweight champion in boxing history until Nikolai Valuev, at 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) and 328 pounds (149 kg). Though an inch (2.5 cm) shorter than Willard, Carnera was around 40 lb (18 kg) heavier and was the heavie...
Starting career
12 September 1928 was the date of Carnera's first professional fight, against Leon Sebilo, in Paris. Carnera won by knockout in round two. He won his first six bouts, then lost to Franz Diener by disqualification in round one at Leipzig. Then, he won seven more bouts in a row before meeting Young Stribling. He and Stribling exchanged disqualification wins, Carnera winning the first in four rounds, and Stribling winning the rematch in round seven. In Carnera's next bout he avenged his defeat t...
World Heavyweight Champion
For his next fight, Carnera faced the world heavyweight champion, Jack Sharkey, on June 29, at the Madison Square Garden Bowl in Queens, New York. Carnera became world champion by knocking out Sharkey in round six. He retained the title against Paulino Uzcudun and Tommy Loughran, both by decision in 15 rounds. In his next fight on 14 June 1934 against Max Baer, Carnera was knocked down multiple times in 11 rounds before referee Arthur Donovon stopped the fight. There is disagreement regarding...
Carnera was the third European to hold the world heavyweight championship after Bob Fitzsimmons and Max Schmeling. He would be the last until Ingemar Johansson claimed the title against Floyd Pattersonin 1959, over a quarter of a century later. Carnera was also the first boxer to win the European Heavyweight title and subsequently become World Heav...
Carnera appeared in a short film in 1931. During his tenure as world champion he played a fictional version of himself in the 1933 film The Prizefighter and the Lady starring Max Baer and Myrna Loy. Here he plays the heavyweight champion who barely holds onto his title with a draw decision after a furious fight with Baer. The film was made just a y...
In 1945 he temporarily returned to boxing and won two fights. But the next year, after three losses against Luigi Musina his talent for wrestling was discovered. In 1946 he became a professional wrestlerand was immediately a huge success at the box office. For several years he was one of the top draws in wrestling. Carnera continued to be an attrac...
According to boxing historian Herbert Goldman, Carnera was "very much mob controlled." His contract was purchased by mobster Owney Madden after Carnera's arrival in New York in 1930. Abe Attell was brought in to train Carnera. Attell had been caught up in the Black Sox Scandal. However Attell was acquitted when he successfully convinced the jury th...
In film
Requiem for a Heavyweight, Rod Serling's 1956 Emmy Award-winning teleplay for Playhouse 90 directed by Ralph Nelson (who also won an Emmy), focused on down-and-out former heavyweight boxer Harlan "Mountain" McClintock. The travails of McClintock, who was played by Jack Palance (Sean Connery played the part on British television and Anthony Quinnessayed the role in the 1962 film), was thought by many boxing fans to resemble Carnera's life. In 1947, fighting aficionado Budd Schulberg wrote The...
In comics
In 1947, Carnera, an Italian comic book series sporting a fictional version of Primo Carnera, was produced. In 1953, it was translated into German. A facsimileversion was published in 2010. Another popular Italian comic character, Dick Fulmine, was graphically inspired by Carnera.
In literature
Carnera is mentioned by Bertie Wooster in the 1934 novel Right Ho, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouseon p. 234. In his 1933 collection of short stories Mulliner Nights, Wodehouse described one character as follows: "He was built on large lines, and seemed to fill the room to overflowing. In physique he was not unlike what Primo Carnera would have been if Carnera hadn't stunted his growth by smoking cigarettes when a boy." Carrera's fight with Walter Neusel is described in One-storied Americaby Soviet...
Boxing
1. International Boxing Union 1.1. IBU Heavyweight Championship (22 October 1933 – 21 June 1935; vacated) 2. National Boxing Association 2.1. NBA World Heavyweight Championship (29 June 1933 – 14 June 1934) 3. New York State Athletic Commission 3.1. NYSAC World Heavyweight Championship (29 June 1933 – 14 June 1934)
Professional wrestling
1. NWA Hollywood Wrestling 1.1. NWA International Television Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bobo Brazil 2. NWA San Francisco 2.1. NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (1 time) – with Sandor Szabo 3. WWE 3.1. WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2019)
Page, Joseph S. (2010). Primo Carnera: The Life and Career of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4810-4.
Paolo Carnera, né le 2 avril 1957 à Venise, est un directeur de la photographie italien. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Lors de la 75 e cérémonie des Rubans d'argent en 2020, il remporte le prix de la meilleure photographie pour Storia di vacanze ( Favolacce ) de Damiano et Fabio D'Innocenzo [ 1 ] .
Paolo Carnera. Cinematographer: Suburra. Paolo Carnera was born on 2 April 1957 in Mestre, Venice, Veneto, Italy. He is a cinematographer, known for Suburra (2015), Io Capitano (2023) and Bad Tales (2020).
Apr 5, 2024 · Paolo Carnera’s camera maximises colour and light. Tara Brady. Tara Brady, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a writer and film critic. Matteo Garrone. IN THIS SECTION.
