
Directing
Born February 22, 1930 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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.

Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
Self

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Self

One Hour Only
Giuliano

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
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Ennio
Self

Vera & Giuliano

The Legal Death

Tonino
Self

Raccontare Venezia
Self

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Filmmaker

Everything You Want
Giorgio

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

L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Generale

Il segreto di Otello
Self

The Haunting of Helena

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Self

The Years of Lost Images
Self

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Self

Noi c'eravamo
Self

Voi siete qui
Self

The Entrepreneur

L'oro di Cuba

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

The Demons of St. Petersburg

Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Self

The Caiman
Franco Caspio

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Self

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Self

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Self - Interviewee

Celluloide
Civalleri (uncredited)

Un eroe borghese
Roberto Calvi

The Long Silence
Procuratore Capo

Time to Kill

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

Control

Cinecittà Cinecittà
Director #2

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Sabatoventiquattromarzo

Turandot

Arlecchino

Marco Polo

A Dangerous Toy

Closed Circuit

And Agnes Chose To Die

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

Giordano Bruno

Sacco & Vanzetti

The Fifth Day of Peace

Machine Gun McCain

Grand Slam

The Battle of Algiers

The Reckless

Extraconiugale

Nudi per vivere

Duel of Champions

Pigeon Shoot

The Assassin

Kapo

Esterina

The Wide Blue Road

The Most Wonderful Moment
Don Grazzini

The Doll that Took the Town

Abandoned
Scattered Soldier from Tuscany

The Girls of San Frediano
Venturini

Giovanna

High School
Professore di religione

Chronicle of Poor Lovers
Alfredo Campolmi

At the Edge of the City
don Antonio

The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Don Pietro Lisandrini

Attention! Bandits!
Lorenzo