Giuliano Montaldo

Giuliano Montaldo

1930-02-22 Genoa, Liguria, Italy 73 Credits

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 e...

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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

2024

as Self

7.5
Acting

A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-be...

One Hour Only

One Hour Only

2023

as Giuliano

8.0
Acting

Rome, the 1960s. A young couple speed through the city toward the sea in a brand new Fiat 500. Yearning to make love for the first time, they play the...

Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?

2023

as Self

Acting
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

2022

as Self

7.3
Acting

To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema...

Ennio

Ennio

2022

as Self

8.3
Acting

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-...

Vera & Giuliano

Vera & Giuliano

2020

7.0
Acting
The Legal Death

The Legal Death

2018

7.0
Acting
Tonino

Tonino

2017

as Self

Acting
Raccontare Venezia

Raccontare Venezia

2017

as Self

7.0
Acting
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

2017

as Self - Filmmaker

6.5
Acting

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth o...

Everything You Want

Everything You Want

2017

as Giorgio

7.4
Acting

An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prosp...

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

2017

as Self

5.2
Acting

An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moment...

L'abbiamo fatta grossa

L'abbiamo fatta grossa

2016

as Generale

5.5
Acting

Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino ...

Il segreto di Otello

2015

as Self

Acting
The Haunting of Helena

The Haunting of Helena

2013

5.6
Acting

After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist ...

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

2012

as Self

Acting
The Years of Lost Images

The Years of Lost Images

2012

as Self

Acting

A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he...

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane

2011

as Self

Acting

Noi c'eravamo

2011

as Self

10.0
Acting
Voi siete qui

Voi siete qui

2011

as Self

Acting
The Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneur

2011

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.4
Directing Writing

Flaiano: il meglio è passato

2010

as Himself

Acting
L'oro di Cuba

L'oro di Cuba

2009

Director, Story, Screenplay

Directing Writing

The Cuban Revolution turns fifty years old. Fifty years of history, myths and challenges of a country that has influenced politics and culture around ...

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

2009

Acting
The Demons of St. Petersburg

The Demons of St. Petersburg

2008

Director, Screenplay

5.8
Directing Writing

St. Petersburg, 1860. After a member of the imperial family is assassinated, Fyodor Dostoevsky meets one of the conspirators, who reveals that his com...

Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

2007

as Self

10.0
Acting

Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of "Pa...

The Caiman

The Caiman

2006

as Franco Caspio

6.7
Acting

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

2006

as Self

9.6
Acting

Documentary about Sergio Leone

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

2006

as Self

7.0
Acting

italian documentary

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

2005

as Self

6.2
Acting

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to wa...

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

2004

as Self - Interviewee

6.5
Acting

Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

Western all'italiana

2004

4.0
Acting

"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcast...

Years of the Eagle

1997

Director

Directing

The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political history of Italy under Mussolini's leadership.

Celluloide

Celluloide

1996

as Civalleri (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on ...

Rome, November 12, 1994

1995

Director

Directing

Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 199...

Un eroe borghese

Un eroe borghese

1995

as governatore Banca d'Italia

6.5
Acting

An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.

The Long Silence

The Long Silence

1993

as Procuratore Capo

6.2
Acting

Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is ...

Time to Kill

Time to Kill

1989

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the nearest...

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

1987

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

Control

Control

1987

Director, Screenplay

5.5
Directing Writing

An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long ...

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

1984

Director

6.2
Directing

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Sabatoventiquattromarzo

Sabatoventiquattromarzo

1984

Director

Directing
Turandot

Turandot

1983

Director

10.0
Directing

From the world famous Arena of Verona, an international cast perform one of Puccini's best loved operas. The cruel Princess Turandot, ruler of China, ...

A Dangerous Toy

A Dangerous Toy

1979

Director, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Writing

A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he...

Closed Circuit

Closed Circuit

1978

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. Wit...

And Agnes Chose to Die

And Agnes Chose to Die

1976

Director, Screenplay, Dialogue

6.6
Directing Writing

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

1975

Second Unit Director

6.3
Directing

Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is fu...

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno

1973

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice....

Sacco & Vanzetti

Sacco & Vanzetti

1971

Director, Story, Screenplay

7.6
Directing Writing

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist politi...

The 5th Day of Peace

The 5th Day of Peace

1970

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel ...

Machine Gun McCain

Machine Gun McCain

1969

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high l...

Grand Slam

Grand Slam

1967

Director

7.1
Directing

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to p...

The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers

1966

Second Unit

7.9

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his ...

The Reckless

The Reckless

1965

Screenplay, Director

5.4
Writing Directing

In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an e...

Extraconiugale

Extraconiugale

1964

Screenplay, Director

Writing Directing

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.

Nudi per vivere

Nudi per vivere

1963

Director

Directing

A collection of varieties numbers from various night clubs.

Duel of Champions

Duel of Champions

1961

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agre...

Pigeon Shoot

Pigeon Shoot

1961

Director, Screenplay

7.2
Directing Writing

Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime...

The Assassin

The Assassin

1961

6.9
Acting

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is ...

The Assassin

The Assassin

1961

First Assistant Director

6.9
Directing

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is ...

Kapo

Kapo

1960

Co-Director

6.9
Directing

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a...

Esterina

Esterina

1959

First Assistant Director

4.7
Directing

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city...

The Wide Blue Road

The Wide Blue Road

1957

Assistant Director

6.0
Directing

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against...

The Most Wonderful Moment

The Most Wonderful Moment

1957

as Don Grazzini

5.8
Acting

Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for...

The Doll that Took the Town

The Doll that Took the Town

1957

4.0
Acting

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police...

Abandoned

Abandoned

1955

as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany

6.8
Acting

A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them...

The Girls of San Frediano

The Girls of San Frediano

1955

as Venturini

5.4
Acting

Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing t...

Giovanna

Giovanna

1955

Production Manager

6.0

This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a pro...

High School

High School

1954

as Professore di religione

6.0
Acting

It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during ...

Chronicle of Poor Lovers

Chronicle of Poor Lovers

1954

as Alfredo Campolmi

6.6
Acting

Florence, Italy, 1925, during the fascist dictatorship. In order to live near his girlfriend Bianca, young Mario moves to a humble street in the old c...

At the Edge of the City

At the Edge of the City

1953

as don Antonio

6.5
Acting

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.

La cieca di Sorrento

La cieca di Sorrento

1953

as Don Pietro Lisandrini

6.0
Acting

A small girl goes blind when her mother is murdered.

Attention! Bandits!

Attention! Bandits!

1951

as Lorenzo

6.0
Acting

During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons....