Career
He was a movie producer and director Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d"Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "Louisiana moglie di sua eccellenza". In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film Mission Europe.
He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy.
In 1953, he filmed Three Forbidden Stories, another version of the real tragic accident that Giuseppe De Santis made one year before in Rome 11 o"clock (Roma ore 11).