Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014) on Netflix
After the war, Alfonso Sansone moves from Palermo to Rome and becomes a producer of documentary films, a career that begins almost by chance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)
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- Henryk Chroscicki, one of the two producers the documentary profiles, was a Polish Jew who fled with his father to Australia shortly before the Nazi invasion of Poland, then volunteered for the US Army. Injured in a road accident, he finished the war in hospital before winning a scholarship to Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
- Francesco Maselli tells the documentary that Orson Welles rented technical equipment from Alfonso Sansone and Henryk Chroscicki for Othello, the film he was shooting while living in Rome, and never paid the rental fees.
- Alfonso Sansone's last film as producer was Claude Chabrol's Giorni felici a Clichy; despite Sansone's financial commitment it flopped and ended his producing career. He then turned to distributing German directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog in Italy.
