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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-02-22
Place of birth
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
The Caiman
2006
6.70
Noi c'eravamo
2011
10.00
Ennio
2022
8.33
High School
1954
6.00
Abandoned
1955
6.80
One Hour Only
2023
8.00
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957
5.80
Raccontare Venezia
2017
7.00
Tonino
2017
0.00
The Legal Death
2018
7.00
The Doll that Took the Town
1957
4.00
Un eroe borghese
1995
6.50
The Years of Lost Images
2012
0.00
Voi siete qui
2011
0.00
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
0.00
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954
6.54
Attention! Bandits!
1951
6.00
Everything You Want
2017
7.40
La cieca di Sorrento
1953
6.00
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016
5.50
The Long Silence
1993
6.20
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
6.20
The Haunting of Helena
2013
5.60
At the Edge of the City
1953
6.50
Celluloide
1996
7.00
Western all'italiana
2004
4.00
The Assassin
1961
6.91
Vera & Giuliano
2020
7.00
Il segreto di Otello
2015
0.00