Name
Tinto Brass
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1933-03-26 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Milan, Kingdom of Italy [now Italy]
Biography
Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the erotic genre, with films such as Caligula, Così fan tutte (released under the English title All Ladies Do It), Paprika, Monella (Frivolous Lola) and Trasgredire.
After Salon Kitty (1976) and Caligula (1979), the style of his films gradually changed towards erotic films. Caligula was originally supposed to be a satire on power instead of an erotic film, but the producers changed and re-edited the film entirely without Brass's consent, removing many political and comical scenes, and shooting sexually explicit sequences, to make the film a pornographic drama. The director demanded that his name be stricken from the credits, and he is only credited for "Principal Photography". Despite this, the film remains his most widely viewed work (and the highest-grossing Italian film released in the United States). Other notable works of Brass's later period include The Key (1983) and Senso '45 (2002). He was making films into his seventies.
Known For
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A married woman's journey through the psychedelic English youth scene awakens her to the c...
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In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording device...
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Kick the Cock is an old Dutch saying, meaning Peek in the Kitchen....
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A successful erotic film producer from Rome regularly receives letters from female fans se...
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After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the roma...
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In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander i...
- 2003 Private as Voyeur
- 2005 Monamour as Man with Cigar (uncredited)
- 2009 Impotenti esistenziali as De Fortis
- 1998 Erotic Short Circuits Vol.2 as Presenter
- 1998 Erotic Short Circuits Vol.3 as Presenter / Jehova's Witness
- 1999 Candlewick as Defense attorney
- 1997 Quando l'Italia non era un paese povero
- 2008 La rabbia as Primo produttore
- 1998 Erotic Short Circuits Vol. 1 as Presenter
- 2012 Crazy Dog as il dottore
- 1964 Woman Is a Wonderful Thing as Mario (segment "Una donna dolce, dolce") (uncredited)
- 2008 Kick the Cock as The Boss
- 1998 Frivolous Lola as Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
- 2006 Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds as Self
- 1981 A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' as Self - Director
- 1983 The Key as Father Confessor
- 2007 My Roman Holiday with John Steiner as Self - Archive Footage
- 2007 Tinto Brass: The Orgy Of Power as Self
- 2013 Istintobrass as Self
- 1964 Tempo libero
- 1964 Tempo lavorativo
- 2008 Il nostro messia as Critico
- 2008 Il nostro messia as Critico
- 1999 Ladybird as Jehova's Witness
- 1999 Weekend in Lecco as Stationmaster
- 1999 Hold My Wrists Tight as The Priest
- 1999 Blessed Transgression! as Presenter
- 1999 Dream as Presenter / Lifeguard
- 1995 P.O. Box Tinto Brass as Tinto Brass
- 2000 Cheeky as Man in Photo Shop
- 2011 Case Chiuse
- 2002 Unchaste Relationships
- 2002 Black Angel as Film Director
- 1999 Improper Liaisons as Presenter
- 1980 Action as The Director
- 1999 Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 2 - Quattro as Presenter
- 1999 Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 3 - Hold My Wrists Tight as Presenter
- 1999 A Magic Mirror as Porter
- 1999 I Am the Way You Want Me as Presenter
- 1999 The Last Subway as Presenter
- 1999 Quattro as Presenter
- 1988 Snack Bar Budapest as Giudice (uncredited)
- 1970 The Howl as Commissario di polizia
- 1999 Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 1 - Julia as Presenter
- 2015 Burning Love as Self
- 2004 Western all'italiana
- 2019 Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax as Himself
- 2021 Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess as Self (archive footage)
- 1991 Paprika as Doctor Babarelli (uncredited)
- 2009 Behind The Scenes of Caligula
- 2014 Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema as Self
- 1992 All Ladies Do It as Comendator Scarfatti (uncredited)
- 2025 Roberto Rossellini - Living Without A Script
- 1999 Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 4 - Improper Liaisons as Presenter
- 1999 Julia as Presenter
- 1994 The Voyeur
- 1999 Voyeur as Presenter
- 1998 Erotic Short Circuits Vol. 4 as Presenter
- 1979 NDR Talk Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Eurotrash ( 2 episodes )
