Renato Casaro Biography
If one want to describe nowadays how a movie-poster have been created before this time, you have to start with..Once upon a time...,when the poster-pattern was - with a few exceptions – hand-painted. One of the big names and at the same time the lastone of this guild is Renato Casaro. For almost 40 years he practised his profession, giving the movie a face, creating movie-posters with enormous recognition, many of them became cult. There is no longer lasting career in the movie-painter-circle than Casaro's.
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