Giuliano Montaldo
Directing • Born 1930-02-22 – Died 2023-09-05
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.
Filmography
43 credits
The Caiman
Movie • 2006
Franco Caspio
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
Movie • 2025
Self
Noi c'eravamo
Movie • 2011
Self
Ennio
Movie • 2022
Self
High School
Movie • 1954
Professore di religione
Abandoned
Movie • 1955
Scattered Soldier from Tuscany
One Hour Only
Movie • 2023
Giuliano
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Movie • 2006
Self
The Most Wonderful Moment
Movie • 1957
Don Grazzini
Raccontare Venezia
Movie • 2017
Self
Tonino
Movie • 2017
Self
The Legal Death
Movie • 2018
The Doll that Took the Town
Movie • 1957
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Movie • 2022
Self
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Movie • 2007
Self
Un eroe borghese
Movie • 1995
governatore Banca d'Italia
Voi siete qui
Movie • 2011
Self
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Movie • 2012
Self
Attention! Bandits!
Movie • 1951
Lorenzo
The Years of Lost Images
Movie • 2012
Self
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
Movie • 2010
Himself
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
Movie • 1954
Alfredo Campolmi
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Movie • 2009
Everything You Want
Movie • 2017
Giorgio
La cieca di Sorrento
Movie • 1953
Don Pietro Lisandrini
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Movie • 2016
Generale
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Movie • 2004
Self - Interviewee
The Long Silence
Movie • 1993
Procuratore Capo
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Movie • 2005
Self
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Movie • 2017
Self - Filmmaker
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Movie • 2011
Self
The Haunting of Helena
Movie • 2013
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Movie • 2006
Self
At the Edge of the City
Movie • 1953
don Antonio
Celluloide
Movie • 1996
Civalleri (uncredited)
Western all'italiana
Movie • 2004
The Assassin
Movie • 1961
Vera & Giuliano
Movie • 2020
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Movie • 2024
Self
Il segreto di Otello
Movie • 2015
Self
The Girls of San Frediano
Movie • 1955
Venturini
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Movie • 2017
Self
Cinecittà Cinecittà
TV • 1985
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