Giuliano Montaldo
Directing
- Born:
- 1930-02-22
- Died:
- 2023-09-05
- Place of birth:
- Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
One Hour Only
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Ennio
Vera & Giuliano
The Legal Death
Tonino
Raccontare Venezia
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Everything You Want
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Il segreto di Otello
The Haunting of Helena
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
The Years of Lost Images
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Noi c'eravamo
Voi siete qui
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
The Caiman
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Western all'italiana
Celluloide
Un eroe borghese
The Long Silence
Cinecittà Cinecittà
The Assassin
The Most Wonderful Moment
The Doll that Took the Town
Abandoned
The Girls of San Frediano
High School
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
At the Edge of the City
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Attention! Bandits!