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Luis Bacalov is a Actor, Musical, Sound and Compositor Italien born on 31 march 1933 at Buenos Aires (Argentine)

Luis Bacalov

Luis Bacalov
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Birth name Luis Enríquez Bacalov
Nationality Italie
Birth 31 march 1933 at Buenos Aires (Argentine)
Death 15 november 2017 (at 84 years)

Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 March 1933, Buenos Aires) is a prolific Argentino-Italian, composer of film scores. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Bacalov has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Original Score, winning it in 1996 for Il Postino. Bacalov has composed significant works for chorus and orchestra. Presently he is the artistic director of the Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto, Italy.

Biography

Né en Argentine, Luis Bacalov s'installe en Italie en 1959 et y est demeuré jusqu'à son décès en 2017. Très prolifique, il a commencé par composer pour des westerns spaghetti, comme Django. Mis à part sa récompense aux Oscars 1996 pour la musique du Facteur (Il Postino) et le fait qu'il ait composé pour Fellini (La Cité des femmes, en 1980), il demeure plutôt méconnu.

Trois de ses musiques réutilisées récemment et très remarquées, le thème principal de Lo chiamavano King (1971) dans le jeu vidéo Red Dead Revolver, la Parte prima de Le Grand Duel (1972), reprise dans Kill Bill de Quentin Tarantino), et le thème de Django dans le film Django Unchained, ont accru sa notoriété.

Il est également un remarquable pianiste qui sait rendre les tangos « magistraux et exquis ».


Mort
Luis Bacalov est mort le 15 novembre 2017 à Rome (Italie) à l’hôpital San Filippo Neri.

Best films

Django Unchained
Django Unchained
(2012)
(Theme Song Performance) The Postman
The Postman
(1994)
(Original Music Composer) Entre Nous
Entre Nous
(1983)
(Original Music Composer)

Usually with

Fernando Di Leo
Fernando Di Leo
(12 films)
Maurizio Lucidi
Maurizio Lucidi
(6 films)
Ruggero Mastroianni
Ruggero Mastroianni
(8 films)
Emidio Greco
Emidio Greco
(4 films)
Mario Cecchi Gori
Mario Cecchi Gori
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Luis Bacalov (92 films)

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Actor

The Art of Love
The Art of Love (1983)
, 1h40
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic, Fantasy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Marina Pierro, Laura Betti, Michele Placido, Luis Bacalov, Massimo Girotti, Milena Vukotic
Rating44% 2.2430152.2430152.2430152.2430152.243015
Dans l'Antiquité, en l'an XIII du premier siècle de notre ère dans la mythique cité de Rome, plusieurs jeunes hommes décident de suivre l'enseignement du poête Ovide, afin d'apprendre l'art de séduire les femmes. Claudia, très belle femme brune, dont l'époux Marcarius est parti à la guerre, éprouve de la solitude. Cornelius, l'un des jeunes élèves d'Ovide, entreprend de tester sur elle ses connaissances. Mais la fourbe mère de Marcarius, aidée d'un perroquet espion, veille farouchement sur sa belle-fille. Cornélius finit cependant par conquérir Claudia. Marcarius découvre cet adultère et décide d'exercer sa vengeance sur Ovide.

Scriptwriter

L'Aîné des Ferchaux
L'Aîné des Ferchaux (2001)

Directed by Bernard Stora
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Samy Naceri, Julie Depardieu, Sílvia Munt, Brigitte Roüan, Philippe Khorsand
Roles Musical
Rating55% 2.7751452.7751452.7751452.7751452.775145
Ferchaux, un riche et puissant entrepreneur, s'apprête à signer un énorme contrat pour la construction d'un barrage en Afrique lorsqu'il devient la cible d'une juge d'instruction convaincue de son implication dans un scandale politico-financier. Pour obtenir les aveux de Ferchaux, elle jette le frère et associé de celui-ci en prison. Très attaché à Gilles qu'il a toujours protégé, Ferchaux se bat pour obtenir sa libération. Il bénéficie de l’aide de Maud Lerner, maîtresse d'un ministre en poste et s'attache les services de Mike Maudet, un jeune homme ambitieux et résolu. D'abord chauffeur, puis secrétaire particulier de Ferchaux, celui-ci reconnaît en lui les élans passionnés et les appétits de sa propre jeunesse. Bientôt Ferchaux comprend que sa chute est commandée par ceux-là même qui pendant des années ont profité du système de détournement de fonds qu'il avait mis en place. Le monde change, le temps des Ferchaux est passé. Il faut fuir.

Sound

Elsa & Fred
Elsa & Fred (2014)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Radford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Chris Noth, Marcia Gay Harden, Scott Bakula, James Brolin
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating64% 3.2435353.2435353.2435353.2435353.243535
The recently widowed, 80-year-old Fred Barcroft is moved against his will, by his daughter, into an apartment in New Orleans, next door to 74-year-old Elsa Hayes. Fred has become an embittered, inactive realist who spends most of his time lying down; Elsa is a flighty, vivacious romanticist who dreams of "the sweet life in Rome," as experienced by Anita Ekberg in the 1961 film La Dolce Vita. Despite their opposite temperaments and outlooks on life, they fall in love.
Django Unchained
Django Unchained (2012)
, 2h45
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins
Roles Theme Song Performance
Rating81% 4.09774.09774.09774.09774.0977
In Texas 1858, the Speck brothers, Ace and Dicky, drive black slaves on foot. Among the shackled slaves is Django, sold off and separated from his wife, Broomhilda von Shaft. The Speck brothers are stopped by Dr. King Schultz, a German ex-dentist and bounty hunter from Düsseldorf, Prussia. Schultz asks to buy one of the slaves; when he questions Django about his knowledge of the Brittle brothers, for whom Schultz is carrying a warrant, Ace becomes irritated and aims his shotgun at Schultz. Schultz quickly kills Ace and leaves Dicky at the mercy of the newly freed slaves, who shoot Dicky in the head.
The Rage
The Rage (2008)
, 2h
Directed by Louis Nero
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about films
Actors Franco Nero, Faye Dunaway, Tinto Brass, Philippe Leroy, Corin Redgrave, Antonella Salvucci
Rating48% 2.4071752.4071752.4071752.4071752.407175
A young director lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
Assassination Tango
Assassination Tango (2004)
, 1h54
Directed by Robert Duvall
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Robert Duvall, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker, Luciana Pedraza, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Michael Corrente
Roles Music
Rating56% 2.848492.848492.848492.848492.84849
Anderson (Duvall) is a successful American hitman whose employer sends him to do a job in Argentina. His contacts inform him that his target is a former general. Following a meeting with one of the co-conspirators, Anderson hears music and is shown a tango studio. He is immediately entranced by the dancing and wants to learn more about it, which leads to his meeting with Manuela, a local tango dancer and instructor. Things are not as easy as they seem. Anderson learns that the assassination job will be delayed, due to his target sustaining an injury in a riding accident. A paranoid Anderson simultaneously rents a room in two different hotels. From the safety but close proximity of one hotel room, he witnesses police converge on the other hotel. Anderson will fulfill his obligation to do the job despite the obvious reality that there is a leak. In the meantime, Anderson begins to immerse himself in the world of the tango, while balancing his plans to carry out the hit. We witness the conspirator Miguel (Rueben Blades) being harshly interrogated by Buenos Aires police. Miguel can eventually breathe a sigh of relief when his conspirator within the Argentinian federal authorities shows up. Anderson (Duvall) eventually makes it out of Argentina safely.
The Dust Factory
The Dust Factory (2004)
, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Kelley, Kim Myers, Michael Angarano, Peter Horton
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating58% 2.9014052.9014052.9014052.9014052.901405
Ryan Flynn (Ryan Kelley) is a young boy who, traumatized by the death of his father, has not spoken aloud or exercised his imagination since. While on a walk with a friend, Ryan falls from a bridge and apparently drowns. He finds himself in a parallel universe called the "Dust Factory", which houses all humans who are on the verge of death, but have yet to die. The Dust Factory's topography is immense, encompassing lakes, forests, mountains, and a wide field covered by dry grass. In the center of the Dust Factory, is a circus pavilion whose Ringmaster is a figure of some authority and dread. Each person dwelling in the Dust Factory must enter the circus pavilion and make a leap (a literal 'leap of faith') across the arena into the arms of a trapeze artist to proceed into death or return to life. The latter decision occurs when a participant falls into the arena during the leap, leaving behind a pile of dust which marks the passage, gives the realm its name, and when disturbed allows the one doing so to enter a hidden chamber where they play ice hockey against the Ringmaster. In the Factory, Ryan regains his voice and is reunited with his grandfather (Armin Mueller-Stahl), whose Alzheimer's disease has (in his 'real' life) prevented him from communicating with his family. The grandfather, who is apparently knowledgeable about the inner workings of the Dust Factory, advises and tells him stories. The stories he tells, which outwardly appear to convey no obvious meaning, contain hidden parables that Ryan must solve. The theme of belief/hope versus cynicism or despair surfaces in relation to one of these.
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
, 1h42
Directed by Damian Pettigrew
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Terence Stamp, Donald Sutherland, Dante Ferretti, Tullio Pinelli
Rating69% 3.485993.485993.485993.485993.48599
A camera tracks crosswise alongside a wide, brightly appointed beach, in what appears to be the dead of winter. No bathers are in sight, only a rolling parade of empty cabanas, with a tranquil blue seascape in the distance beyond. The wistful, melancholy music of Nino Rota lends these vistas a dreamy familiarity. We then jump from color to luminous black & white, and a quick glimpse of Federico Fellini's 1963 masterpiece, 8½, in which the monumentally buxom harlot, La Saraghina, is preparing to perform her rumba on the beach for a flock of fugitive schoolboys. It's the very same beach we were just staring at, but magically denuded of 40 years of succeeding development, and made mythic through the eyes of a master. From this point of departure, Pettigrew juxtaposes archival footage and fresh interviews with Fellini's collaborators, interspersed with classic clips and the fruits of his own present-day visits to the haunting locales where I Vitelloni (1953), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), Fellini Satyricon (1969) and other cinematic wonders first came to life. The goal is to fuse these ingredients thematically, to a degree that may better illuminate Fellini's conscience and philosophies.
Woman on Top
Woman on Top (2000)
, 1h24
Directed by Fina Torres
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Penélope Cruz, Murilo Benício, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Mark Feuerstein, John de Lancie, Anne Ramsay
Roles Music
Rating53% 2.6595752.6595752.6595752.6595752.659575
All her life, Isabella has suffered from motion sickness. Because of her illness she couldn't play much with other children. She stayed at home and learned how to cook, becoming a renowned chef as an adult. She fell in love with Toninho and they opened a restaurant together, with Isabella stuck in the kitchen and Toninho out front taking the credit.
It Had to Be You
It Had to Be You (2000)

Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Natasha Henstridge, Michael Vartan, Olivia D'Abo, Michael Rispoli, Joelle Carter, Emmy Rossum
Roles Conductor
Rating56% 2.8033052.8033052.8033052.8033052.803305
Alors qu'ils préparent leur mariage dans le même hôtel, un homme et une femme s'éprennent l'un de l'autre.
The Love Letter
The Love Letter (1999)
, 1h28
Directed by Peter Ho-sun Chan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Kate Capshaw, Blythe Danner, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Selleck, Tom Everett Scott, Gloria Stuart
Rating54% 2.7488752.7488752.7488752.7488752.748875
Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw), a middle-aged bookseller, having recently divorced and after sending her daughter off to summer camp, and her nagging ex-husband trying to convince her to pay for some of their daughter's activities is ready to move on to the next stage in her life. One morning, as she is going through the mail, she discovers an anonymous blue love letter, without an envelope and a name. Having discovered this letter in her mail, in her bookstore, she naturally thinks it is for her. But the only question is, who is it from? At first, she thinks it is from George Matthias, the local fireman, but decides it couldn't be him, after trying to give him subtle hints ("have you ever been 'on fire?'") Not having any idea who may be the writer of the love letter, she just puts it away in her purse and tries to forget about it.
The Children of the Century
The Children of the Century (1999)
, 2h15
Directed by Diane Kurys
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Robin Renucci, Karin Viard, Stefano Dionisi, Isabelle Carré
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.1455253.1455253.1455253.1455253.145525
The story begins as George Sand quits her marital home and arrives in Paris with her two children. Meanwhile, the young poet and dandy Alfred de Musset is busy making a name for himself both as a womaniser and a talented poet and critic. Sand and Musset first meet at a literary dinner and quickly recognise in each other a like minded love of literature. At first their relationship remains platonic, but soon the pair embark on a tumultuous affair that will lead them to Venice and the creation of their finest works of literature.