Giuliano Montaldo
Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
Ennio
as SelfA portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century,...
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The Haunting of Helena
as uncreditedAfter a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home,...
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Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as SelfTo mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to...
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The Caiman
as Franco CaspioBruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a...
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Everything You Want
as GiorgioAn aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights,...
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Attention! Bandits!
as LorenzoDuring the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a...
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L'abbiamo fatta grossa
as GeneraleYuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted...
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The Assassin
as uncreditedSuave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the...
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Chronicle of Poor Lovers
as Alfredo CampolmiIn 1925, young Florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girlfriend...
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The Most Wonderful Moment
as Don GrazziniPietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried...
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Abandoned
as Scattered Soldier from TuscanyA group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans...
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The Years of Lost Images
as SelfA documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies...
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Un eroe borghese
as governatore Banca d'ItaliaAn intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
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At the Edge of the City
as don AntonioBased on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class...
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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
as SelfA documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté,...
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The Long Silence
as Procuratore CapoCarla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front...
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Celluloide
as Civalleri (uncredited)June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all...
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as SelfHow the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates...
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Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
as SelfDocumentary about Sergio Leone
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - FilmmakerThe story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the...
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Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
as Self - IntervieweeDocumentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté
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One Hour Only
as GiulianoRome, the 1960s. A young couple speed through the city toward the sea in a brand new Fiat 500....
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La cieca di Sorrento
as Don Pietro LisandriniA small girl goes blind when her mother is murdered.
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The Doll that Took the Town
as uncreditedA struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon...
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High School
as Professore di religioneIt's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final...
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Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
as SelfPontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he...
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