Giuliano Montaldo
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
Top 40 Movies
Ennio
2022
Tonino
2017
Celluloide
1996
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
High School
1954
The Caiman
2006
The Haunting of Helena
2013
Voi siete qui
2011
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
The Long Silence
1993
The Assassin
1961
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
Abandoned
1955
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957
Everything You Want
2017
The Doll that Took the Town
1957
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
Attention! Bandits!
1951
Un eroe borghese
1995
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004
One Hour Only
2023
The Girls of San Frediano
1955
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
Raccontare Venezia
2017
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016
La cieca di Sorrento
1953
The Years of Lost Images
2012
At the Edge of the City
1953
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
2025
The Legal Death
2018