Giuliano Montaldo

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

43

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-02-22

Day of death

2023-09-05 (93 years old)

Place of Birth

Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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

  • Attention! Bandits!

    Attention! Bandits!

  • The Caiman

    The Caiman

  • Flaiano: il meglio è passato

    Flaiano: il meglio è passato

  • One Hour Only

    One Hour Only

  • Un eroe borghese

    Un eroe borghese

  • Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

    Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

  • Tonino

    Tonino

  • Ennio

    Ennio

  • Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

    Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

  • L'abbiamo fatta grossa

    L'abbiamo fatta grossa

  • Raccontare Venezia

    Raccontare Venezia

  • The Long Silence

    The Long Silence

  • The Most Wonderful Moment

    The Most Wonderful Moment

  • The Assassin

    The Assassin

  • Noi c'eravamo

    Noi c'eravamo

  • Cinecittà Cinecittà

    Cinecittà Cinecittà

  • Voi siete qui

    Voi siete qui

  • Celluloide

    Celluloide

  • The Haunting of Helena

    The Haunting of Helena

  • Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

    Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

  • Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

  • Everything You Want

    Everything You Want

  • Abandoned

    Abandoned

  • The Legal Death

    The Legal Death

  • Western all'italiana

    Western all'italiana

  • Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

    Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

  • Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

  • Vera & Giuliano

    Vera & Giuliano

  • Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane

    Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane

  • At the Edge of the City

    At the Edge of the City

  • La cieca di Sorrento

    La cieca di Sorrento

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

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

  • Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

    Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

  • Chronicle of Poor Lovers

    Chronicle of Poor Lovers

  • The Doll that Took the Town

    The Doll that Took the Town

  • Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?

    Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?

  • The Girls of San Frediano

    The Girls of San Frediano

  • Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

    Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

  • High School

    High School

  • Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

  • Il segreto di Otello

    Il segreto di Otello

  • Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

  • The Years of Lost Images

    The Years of Lost Images