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Rino Di Silvestro was writer and director of the schlock horror film Legend of the Wolf Woman (aka La Lupa Mannara) starring Annik Borel.

Di Silvestro was born in Italy on January 30, 1932, and began his career working in theater. He made his directorial debut with the 1973 exploitation classic Women in Cell Block 7. He wrote and directed a handful of sordid schlock classics over the next decade including Red Light Girls (1974), SS Special Section Women (1976), Baby Love (1979), Hanna D.: The Girl from Vondel Park (1984) under the pseudonym Axel Berger, and The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra (1985) under the name Cesar Todd.

Rino Di Silvestro died of cancer in Italy on October 3, 2009, at age 77.

Written by Harris Lentz III...

Severin Films sent along the sad news that Italian genre director Rino Di Silvestro died of cancer on October 3. The news is especially bittersweet for the company, as it has been gearing up to give his 1984 shocker Hanna D.: The Girl From Vondel Park its DVDebut October 27. A new on-camera interview will be included on that disc, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from it below.

Best known for helming 1976’s Werewolf Woman (a.k.a. La Lupa Mannera, The Legend Of The Wolf Woman, etc.), Di Silvestro was also behind such sordid titles as Women In Cell Block 7, Red Light Girls and Deported Women Of The SS Special Section. Hanna D., on which he used his occasional pseudonym Axel Berger, was produced in the wake of the German hit Christiane F. and follows a Dutch schoolgirl on a descent into drugs and depravity. Severin’s disc will...