Giuliano Montaldo
Directing · Born 1930-02-22 · age 93 at death · Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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.
Titles
The Battle of Algiers
Everything You Want
The Caiman
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Sacco & Vanzetti
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
The Haunting of Helena
The Assassin
Kapo
Giordano Bruno
Machine Gun McCain
Grand Slam
The Entrepreneur
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Time to Kill
Attention! Bandits!
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
Marco Polo
The Fifth Day of Peace
A Dangerous Toy
Abandoned
Closed Circuit
And Agnes Chose To Die
Un eroe borghese
The Girls of San Frediano
The Demons of St. Petersburg
The Wide Blue Road
Control
Pigeon Shoot
Esterina
Celluloide
Duel of Champions
The Most Wonderful Moment
At the Edge of the City
The Long Silence
The Reckless
One Hour Only
The Doll that Took the Town
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
High School
The Legal Death
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Turandot
Giovanna
Western all'italiana
Vera & Giuliano
Nudi per vivere
Years of the Eagle
Extraconiugale
Arlecchino
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Cinecittà Cinecittà
L'oro di Cuba
Sabatoventiquattromarzo