Carlo Leva

Born: 1930-02-27

Carlo Leva (27 February 1930 – 4 April 2020) was an Italian production designer. After beginning his career as second assistant art director in Genoa on the set of The Walls of Malapaga, Leva studied Architecture in Rome, specializing in production design, costume design and set decoration for movies and advertising. In 1962, Leva was hired as assistant art director on Robert Aldrich's Sodom and Gomorrah, where he met second unit director Sergio Leone, who later hired him as assistant art director on A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and as set decorator on Once Upon a Time in the West.[1] He befriended also director Enzo Muzii, with whom he worked on movies such as Something Like Love, and later worked with many other directors, such as Federico Fellini, Dario Argento (for The Cat o' Nine Tails) and Carol Reed. In 2017, Leva took part in the documentary film Sad Hill Unearthed, narrating the reconstruction of the cemetery scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.


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Sad Hill Unearthed

as Self - Assistant Art Director (1966)
Released: 2018-10-19

Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of...

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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

as Self - Art Director
Released: 2001-09-22

The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich...

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Una macchia rosa

as uncredited
Released: 1970-04-17

A photographer comes back to Italy after a trip to India and struggles to adjust to his new life.

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Lady Chatterley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret

as uncredited
Released: 1995-04-11

A finishing-school graduate learns about her late mother's affair with the handyman.

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Por un puñado de sueños

as Self - Interviewee
Released: 2004-01-01

In the 60s and half of the 70s, Almeria was the Hollywood of the South Europe.

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