Ernesto Maria Pasquali (1883–1919) was an Italian pioneering film producer and director. Originally a journalist he was employed by

Ambrosio Film Ambrosio Film was an Italian film production and distribution company which played a leading role in Italian cinema during the silent era. Established in Turin in 1906 by the pioneering filmmaker Arturo Ambrosio, assisted by cinematographers Gi ...

before he set up the

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...

-based

Pasquali Film Pasquali Film was an Italian film production company of the silent era. Founded in 1909 in Turin by Ernesto Maria Pasquali, it was later merged into the Unione Cinematografica Italiana in 1919, before closing completely in 1924. It enjoyed its g ...

, one of Italy's leading production companies. Shortly after his death in 1919 it was subsumed into larger conglomerate

Unione Cinematografica Italiana The Unione Cinematografica Italiana (UCI) was an Italian film production and distribution consortium of the silent era. Following the end of the First World War, a group of eleven leading Italian companies joined forces in a single conglomerate ...

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References

Bibliography

* Abel, Richard. ''Encyclopedia of Early Cinema''. Taylor & Francis, 2005. * Brunetta, Gian Piero. ''The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century''. Princeton University Press, 2009.

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* 1883 births 1919 deaths French film directors Italian film producers People from the Province of Pavia 20th-century Italian journalists {{Italy-film-bio-stub