Giuliano Montaldo
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.
24 directing credits · 43 acting credits
Directing · 24
Marco Polo
1982
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971
Machine Gun McCain
1969
Grand Slam
1967
Giordano Bruno
1973
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
A Dangerous Toy
1979
The Demons of St. Petersburg
2008
The Fifth Day of Peace
1970
And Agnes Chose To Die
1976
Pigeon Shoot
1961
Time to Kill
1989
Extraconiugale
1964
Control
1987
Closed Circuit
1978
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995
The Reckless
1965
The Entrepreneur
2011
L'oro di Cuba
2009
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
Turandot
1983
Nudi per vivere
1963
Years of the Eagle
1997
Acting · 43
Ennio
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Western all'italiana
2004
The Haunting of Helena
2013
The Assassin
1961
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
The Caiman
2006
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
Celluloide
1996
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004
Noi c'eravamo
2011
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954
Attention! Bandits!
1951
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016
Everything You Want
2017
The Long Silence
1993
The Years of Lost Images
2012
At the Edge of the City
1953
The Girls of San Frediano
1955
Il segreto di Otello
2015
High School
1954
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007
The Doll that Took the Town
1957
La cieca di Sorrento
1953
Un eroe borghese
1995
Abandoned
1955
Raccontare Venezia
2017
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
One Hour Only
2023
Tonino
2017
Voi siete qui
2011
Vera & Giuliano
2020
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
2025
The Legal Death
2018