Romolo Bacchini


Romolo Bacchini, also credited as Bachini was a filmmaker, musician, painter and Italian dialect poet, who spent his career during the silent film era.

Biography

Born Romolo Bachini in Rome, Bacchini, as he later spelled it, was one of the pioneers of Italian silent cinema, directing, and sometimes acting in, more than 50 films. Some have been lost while others were recovered and restored, such as La leggenda dell'edelweiss, of which coils and the original screenplay have been found by researchers of the , in 1988.
In 1909 he moved to Naples, where the fledgling movie company gave him the artistic direction of its productions. In the capital of Campania he directed many of his movies, among them the historical short film , one of the first Italian movies to be set in the Middle Ages.
In 1936, as art director for CAIR, he directed The Adventures of Pinocchio, which is believed to be the first animated film dedicated to the novel by Carlo Collodi.

Complete filmography

Directed movies

He graduated in composition and direction at the in Naples, and was a composer, director and conductor of the orchestra.
He wrote plenty of accompanying music for films and was the first musician in the history of cinema to have composed – in 1905 – specifically created music to accompany a movie.

List of musical works (partial)

Directed operas

Contemporary and friend of poet and writer, with him he was part
of the "Gruppo dei Romanisti" as well as other intellectuals and artists who, during the charming times of Caffé Greco, animated the cultural salons of Rome. He wrote many poetical compositions, revealing himself as particularly inclined into poems, verses
and sonnets in Roman dialect. In 1929 he wrote "",
a poem in blank verse and quatrains, all in Roman dialect, dealing with the birth of Rome and illustrated by the painter-ceramicist Romeo Berardi.