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

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

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

  • Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?

    Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?

  • Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

    Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

  • Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

    Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

  • Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

    Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

  • Attention! Bandits!

    Attention! Bandits!

  • Vera & Giuliano

    Vera & Giuliano

  • Tonino

    Tonino

  • Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

    Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

  • The Caiman

    The Caiman

  • The Assassin

    The Assassin

  • Celluloide

    Celluloide

  • Ennio

    Ennio

  • Abandoned

    Abandoned

  • Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

    Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

  • Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

    Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

  • L'abbiamo fatta grossa

    L'abbiamo fatta grossa

  • The Haunting of Helena

    The Haunting of Helena

  • Western all'italiana

    Western all'italiana

  • The Most Wonderful Moment

    The Most Wonderful Moment

  • Voi siete qui

    Voi siete qui

  • Un eroe borghese

    Un eroe borghese

  • Chronicle of Poor Lovers

    Chronicle of Poor Lovers

  • Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

    Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

  • La cieca di Sorrento

    La cieca di Sorrento

  • Noi c'eravamo

    Noi c'eravamo

  • Flaiano: il meglio è passato

    Flaiano: il meglio è passato

  • The Long Silence

    The Long Silence

  • The Legal Death

    The Legal Death

  • One Hour Only

    One Hour Only

  • Cinecittà Cinecittà

    Cinecittà Cinecittà

  • Everything You Want

    Everything You Want

  • Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane

    Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane

  • High School

    High School

  • Il segreto di Otello

    Il segreto di Otello

  • The Girls of San Frediano

    The Girls of San Frediano

  • Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

  • Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

    Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

  • Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

  • At the Edge of the City

    At the Edge of the City

  • The Doll that Took the Town

    The Doll that Took the Town

  • Raccontare Venezia

    Raccontare Venezia

  • The Years of Lost Images

    The Years of Lost Images