Roger A. Fratter was born in Bergamo on 2 October 1968.
Since he was a child he shows strong aptitudes towards art, in particular music and drawing. At the age of 7 he discovers the “Cinema”. Soon after he begins to make short films in super 8 and “diatape” with his friends, stories in slides with a separate audio band, which he will rename “slidefilm”. From 1979 to 1987 he will make about twenty of them, mainly in the western genre.
After finishing his studies, in the early nineties, he works in television where he has the opportunity to perfect what will become his main activity, editing.
Thanks to this experience, throughout the making countless video short films that will allow him to win numerous prizes at various national competitions.
In 1997 he made his debut in feature-length feature film with a very personal style halfway between genre and auteur cinema.
In fact, his models range from the “great” Sergio Leone, Andrzej Zulawski, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Elio Petri to the “underrated” Lucio Fulci, Enzo G. Castellari, Cesare Canevari, “authors” of a more popular cinema.
Expert of Italian cinema, especially of “Italian western”, he collaborates in the creation of several books including “The Dictionary of Italian Cinema” by Roberto Poppi-Mario Pecorari ed. Gremese, and in 2005 he made a first dossier “At the borders of the western” with the critic Davide Pulici for the monthly Nocturno Cinema. In 2007, again for the same magazine, he produced the dossier “Wanted” edited with Manlio Gomarasca and presented at “La Biennale di Venezia - 64 Venice International Film Festival” on the occasion of the retrospective on the “Italian western”.