MARK LOMBARDO (Executive Producer) studied journalism in the United States before traveling to Europe, where he soon began working with Tarak Ben Ammar's company, Carthago Films.

Beginning as an AD for, among others, Roberto Rosselini and Claude Chabrol, Lombardo has been an executive producer or producer on most Carthago Films and Quinta Communications productions since the '70's. Among his credits are The Knights of the Quest, La Traviata, Foreign Student, Pirates, Young Toscanni, Voyage, Mayrig and Protocol.