Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1930-02-22
Day of Death
2023-09-05
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.
Filmography (42)
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
2025
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
One Hour Only
2023
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Ennio
2022
Vera & Giuliano
2020
The Legal Death
2018
Tonino
2017
Raccontare Venezia
2017
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
Everything You Want
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016Il segreto di Otello
2015
