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The Gallea Film Family

Arturo Gallea was a cinematographer in Italy with a career that started in 1916 and ended 90 films later in 1958. He was the Director of Photography for many Frederico Fellini films and also dipped his hand into writing and acting. Frederico Fellini's film "The White Sheik" ( Lo Sceicco Bianco -1952) is considered his best comedy that Arturo Gallea shot.


Genevieve Gallea had a short acting career but got a starring roll in Godard's anti war film "Les Carabiniers" (The Soldiers-1963)


Anne Gallea was the set decorator for the 2005 film "The Greatest Game Ever Played" directed by Bill Paxton.

Jeff Gallea is an independent filmmaker living in Los Angeles. "Buried In Tucson" was his first feature that he wrote and directed. "Practice Kiss" is Jeff's 2nd feature film he will direct that now is in pre-production.


LO SCEICCO BIANCO (The White Sheik) 1952 Italy

Directed by Federico Fellini
Cinematography by Arturo Gallea

The first two days of a marriage. Ivan, a punctilious clerk brings his virginal bride to Rome for a honeymoon, an audience with the Pope, and to present her to his uncle. They arrive early in the morning, and he has time for a nap. She sneaks off to find the offices of a romance magazine she reads religiously: she wants to meet "The White Sheik," the hero of a soap-opera photo strip. Star-struck, she ends up 20 miles from Rome, alone on a boat with the sheik. A distraught Ivan covers for her, claiming she's ill. That night, each wanders the streets, she tempted by suicide, he by prostitutes. The next day, at 11, is their papal audience. Can things still right themselves?


LES CARABINIERS (The Soldiers) 1963 France

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Starring Genevieve Gallea, Marino Mase, Albert Juross

Jean-Luc Godard set out in 1963 to deliberately make a war film that would be neither dramatically involving nor formally compelling--and he succeeded so brilliantly that the film was seen as a disaster, precisely because the liberal-humanist critics of the time were being educated by it rather than reassured. A vitally important film, in terms of Godard's notions of form and in terms of his growing political awareness, it tells of two peasants drafted into the king's army, whose victories on the battlefields lead to their execution as traitors when diplomacy takes a characteristic turn



Arturo Gallea with film friends in Rome 1958

 

 

The White Sheik poster