About

Known credits:
11
Birthday:
1930-04-23
Place of birth:
Trapani, Italy
Website:
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Pino Zac

Overview

Giuseppe Zaccaria (23 April 1930 – 25 August 1985), best known as Pino Zac, was an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and animator. Born in Trapani, Sicily, Zac spent his childhood in Pratola Peligna, Abruzzo and eventually moved to Rome to study architecture. In 1951 he started his professional debut with the comic strip Gatto Filippo, published in the newspaper Paese Sera (it) until 1959. He later collaborated with a large number of European publications, including the Italian magazines Eureka and Pioniere, the French magazines L'Écho des savanes and Le Canard enchaîné, the British magazine Playtime, the Polish magazine Spillky. In 1977 he co-founded the satirical magazine Il Male, of which he also realized several covers. Zac's profane, irreverent, sometimes brutal satire caused him several complaints and legal problems. Among his favorite targets, Zac's often focused on clergymen's corruption and sexual repression. Among his works, he realized four books targeting the Catholic Church and the petty-bourgeois Italian mentality.[1] In 2002, Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo remembered him as "the first cartoonist in the world to draw the Pope without clothes". Zac was also active as a director and screenwriter of animation films. He realized about 20 short films and the experimental feature film The Nonexistent Knight, based on the novel with the same name by Italo Calvino. Zac died of stroke in his house in 1985. In 2015, a documentary film about Zac, Zac - I fiori del Male by Massimo Denaro, was screened out of competition at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival.

Known for

Acting

1973 We Want the Colonels Actor Armando Caffè 59
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Directing

1969 The Nonexistent Knight Directing Director 58
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1968 Caprice Italian Style Directing Director 59
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1961 The Man in Gray Directing Director N/A
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Writing

1969 The Nonexistent Knight Writing Writer 58
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Art

1972 Without Family Art Title Designer 59
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1967 The Witches Art Opening Title Sequence 59
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1967 The Witches Art Title Designer 59
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Visual Effects

1968 Caprice Italian Style Visual Effects Animation 59
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1967 The Witches Visual Effects Opening/Ending Animation 59
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1967 The Witches Visual Effects Animation 59
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