Birth name Victor J. Tognola Name Victor Tognola Movies Hannes Pussy Schmidhauser | Website www.framafilms.com Role Film director | |
Genres Film producer, film director, advertising, documentaries, publishing, author, journalist Occupation(s) Film producer, film director, author, writer, artist | ||
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Victor Tognola is a film director.
(Cheiron) At a very early age he begins by writing a series of stories for the literary page of Libera Stampa published the best of the Italian Culture, from Carlo Bo to Leonardo Sciascia, his creative talents expanding to radio, journalism, television, cinema and advertising.
At the same time he starts his radiophonic activity in the glorious Radio Monte Ceneri where he creates a successful show called La Luna si e rotta (The moon is broken), a milestone in the history of the radio.
In the 1970s he moves to Milan where he writes for the newspaper Il Giorno and cooperates with RAI, where he is asked to realize A briglia sciolta (At full gallop), the Italian continuation of La Luna si e rotta (main actors: Franco Passatore, the great Angiolina Quinterno and Pinuccia Galimberti). From 1990 to 1995 he is a member of the Heptagon Foundation together with Justus Dahinden, Arbert Ernst and Ernst Hiestand. Between 1997 and 1999 he organizes three editions of The Crystals of Locarno International Film Festival. In 1998 he is an active consultant for the Federal Commission for Professional and Technological Formation.
For what concerns Advertising Industry, he is first a member of the Mc Cann Erickson's agency in Milan, and then he establishes in Switzerland the Frama Films Ideas & Co.. He also joins the Art Directors Club in Zurich, Switzerland and conceives, produces and directs more than 3000 commercials.
During his career, he wins around onehundred prizes; among them: 13 Lions at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the Berliner Klappe in Berlin, and the Grand Award in New York. His Araldit (Novartis) commercial is considered to be one of the 3 most beautiful commercials of all times; it is the only one to have won both a Golden Lion and a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Victor Tognola also directs The Great Illusionist, a movie selected in Venice, and the TV cartoons series The most beautiful Tales and Chlorophyll from the blue sky, both drawn by Adelchi Galloni.
He has recently conducted anthropological researches in the field, the documentary trilogy Biasca Contro being a precursor of the new local vision for what concerns the collection and the protection of an area's memory. Follow in this direction the series entitled Mysterious Switzerland and Crazy Switzerland, the hidden land.
Some other documentaries
Bern is beautiful (Albert Einstein & Paul Klee) – Krebsliga (The Cancer) – Ascona Ascona Monte Verita Karl Gustav Jung – Hermann Hesse – Rudolf Steiner – Mircea Eliade – Joseph Campbell) – Ticino Serenade (Grace Bumbry – Walther Giller – Caterina Valente – Fiorenza Cossotto) – Frama loves you – Dan muna kayo (Philippines) – Mata Hari (Indonesia) – Swissair in Concert (Kennedy Center Washington – Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, directed by Wolfgang Sawallisch) – Frama loves you 2 – La collina dei morti – La Krenscia – Silvesterchlause in Urnaesch – Radio Monte Ceneri – Evil Spirits of Switzerland.
Some personages with whom he enjoyed long conversations for Radio and TV:
Vladimir Nabokov – John Steinbeck – Wilhelm Backhaus – Hermann Scherchen – Claudio Arrau – Joan Crawford – Lale Andersen – Albert Hoffman – Satya Sai Baba – S. Baghavantam – Narayana. Kasturi – Vinayak Krishna Kokak – Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin – Ralph Metzner – Pierre Levy – Rolf Verres – Carl P. Ruck – Derrick de Kerckhove – Benoit Mandelbrot – Wolf-Dieter Storl – Christian Ratsch – Ellemire Zolla – Eduardo De Filippo – Simon Wiesenthal – Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Features Films
Illusion ( director) – (Dino Conti- Adelheid Koch, Milva, Valerie Lush) – FIADE – prize for the best actress Adelheid Koch – selected at the Festival of Venice and Karlovy Vary.
The Knie Circus ( director), episode of the film Visages Suisses of the 700th of the Swiss Confederation's Foundation.
La prossima volta il fuoco ( Et ensuite le feu) ( Co-producer) – Fabio Carpi (Director), Luigi Malerba (writer), Marie-Christine Barrault, Jacqueline Lustig, Lila Kedrova, Jean Rochefort
Publishing
The little donkey and the wolf and other fables – Aesop rewritten by V. Tognola – Suhrkamp, with original drawings by Adelchi Galloni
The most beautiful fables of the world – Otto Maier Verlag Text by V. Tognola, drawings taken by the TV series.