Giorgio Rayzacher
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Born in Warsaw to an Italian mother and a Polish father, he is an Italian-French-Polish citizen. He attended directing courses in Rome and Lodz and was a voluntary assistant to numerous famous directors before making his debut with his first documentary Metilicon, produced by Giorgio Patara thanks to the interest of Bernardo Bertolucci. He wrote numerous screenplays and books such as ghost writer, he was a theater actor in Carmelo Bene's company. He directed his first fiction for Rai in 1970, La Vendetta, scheduled for 1972. In 1998 he wrote, directed and starred in France in the medium-length thriller Raptus.. For years he made dozens of documentaries and commercials around the world before turning to literature. In 1997 his first novel, a suspense novel about the connections of the Italian-Russian-Polish mafia, The Princess of Lyon, was released in France, a title that was also published in Poland by the publisher Philip Wilson with the title Ksiezniczka z Lyonu. In October 2004 the psycho-thriller Chills (original French title Frissons) was released in Poland, with the Polish title of Dreszcze, which had great success with the public and critics, and in October 2007, on the occasion of the fair of Krakow's book, his third novel, The Legend of a Nervous Man, has been released. Some Polish Internet users have proposed the author for the Nobel Prize. In 2018 his fourth novel The Long Way to Eden was published in Poland under the title Piekni Bogaci Perfidni.
He has a rich curriculum as an actor, often signing himself with pseudonyms. He made a short cameo in the 2019 Academy Award nominated and award-winning film Cold War (2018).
He writes, acts and directs in Polish, French, Italian.