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The artistic collaboration between Piero Umiliani and director Luigi Scattini, now close friends, reaches its peak thanks to the movies with actress Zeudi Araya, admired by millions of people in “La Ragazza dalla Pelle di Luna” (“The Sinner”), “La Ragazza Fuoristrada” and “Il Corpo” (“The Body”). In these movies, Umiliani’s music evolves extending towards new horizons, thanks also to sonorities experimented by the Maestro in his recording studio SoundWorkShop, in the Trionfale district of Rome. Themes range from funk to jazz, from easy listening to latin, or have innovative western-exotic ambience like the track “Pelle di Luna”.
Electronic keyboards directly imported from the US, make their way into the tracks bringing new harmonies and moods. Zeudi herself, at the time twenty-two years old and at the top of her popularity, works in the recording studio with the Maestro. “I have recorded a 45 LP for the soundtrack of “La Ragazza Fuoristrada” – says Zeudi in an interview in “Eva Express” dated September 25, 1973 – “ and everybody says that the record is very good, thanks to the accompaniment of exotic instruments and to my deep voice.”
This period is completed by the western-thriller “10 Bianchi Uccisi da un Piccolo Indiano” (“Blood River”), by a sexy documentary film with Renzo Arbore’s narrating voice and finally by the first experiments of sexy comedies “Il Domestico” and “La Schiava Io Ce l’Ho e Tu No” starring Lando Buzzanca, where the score is pure and entertaining easy listening.
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Al Tropico del Cancro
(aka "Tropic of Cancer")
Year: 1972
Director: Edoardo Mulargia & Gian Paolo Lomi
Cast: Anthony Steffen, Anita Strindberg, Gabriele Tinti, Umberto Raho.
Distr.: Jumbo
Genere: Thriller
La Ragazza dalla Pelle di Luna X SoundClip 1 X X SoundClip 2 X
(aka "Moonskin")
Year: 1972
Director: Luigi Scattini
Cast: Ugo Pagliai, Zeudi Araya, Beba Loncar, Giacomo Rossi Stuart.
Distr.: P.A.C.
Genre: Drama
I Vizi Segreti della Donna nel Mondo
Year: 1972
Regia: Luigi Scattini
Cast: Not Professional Actors.
Distr.: Variety
Genre: Documovie
Baba Yaga X SoundClip X
(aka "Kiss Me, Kill Me")
Year: 1973
Director: Corrado Farina
Cast: Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funes, Ely Galleani, Daniela Balzaretti.
Distr.: Reel Media Entertainment
Genre: Mistery
Mondo Erotico
Year: 1973
Director: Filippo Walter Ratti (alias Peter Rush)
Cast: Renzo Arbore (as narrator).
Distr.: Columbia
Genre: Documovie
La Ragazza Fuoristrada X SoundClip X
Year: 1973
Director: Luigi Scattini
Cast: Zeudi Araya, Luc Merenda, Martine Brochard, Giacomo Rossi Stuart.
Distr.: P.A.C.
Genre: Comedy
La Schiava Io ce l'ho e Tu No X SoundClip X
(aka "The Slave")
Year: 1973
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Cast: Lando Buzzanca, Catherine Spaak, Adriana Asti, Veronica Merin, Gordon Mitchell.
Distr.: Medusa
Genre: Comedy
Il Corpo X SoundClip X
(aka "The Body")
Year: 1974
Director: Luigi Scattini
Cast: Zeudi Araya, Enrico Maria Salerno, Carroll Baker, Leonard Mann.
Distr.: United Pictures
Genre: Drama
10 Bianchi Uccisi da un Piccolo Indiano X SoundClip X
(aka "Blood River")
Year: 1974
Director: Gianfranco Baldanello
Cast: Fabio Testi, John Ireland, Rosalba Neri, Luisa Rivelli, Josè Martinez.
Distr.: Indief
Genre: Western
Il Domestico
Year: 1974
Director: Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Cast: Lando Buzzanca, Martine Brochard, Arnoldo Foà, Silvia Monti, Femi Benussi, Luciano Salce, Erika Blanc.
Distr.: Medusa
Genre: Comedy
La Governante X SoundClip X
(aka "The Governess")
Year: 1974
Director: Gianni Grimaldi
Cast: Turi Ferro, Martine Brochard, Vittorio Caprioli, Paola Quattrini, Agostina Belli.
Distr.: I.I.F.
Genre: Comedy