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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (48)
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
as Self
2025
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
as Self
2024
One Hour Only
as Giuliano
2023
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self
2022
Ennio
as Self
2022
Vera & Giuliano
2020
The Legal Death
2018
Tonino
as Self
2017
Raccontare Venezia
as Self
2017
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Filmmaker
2017
Everything You Want
as Giorgio
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
2017
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
as Generale
2016
Il segreto di Otello
as Self
2015
The Haunting of Helena
2013
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
as Self
2012
The Years of Lost Images
as Self
2012
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
as Self
2011
Noi c'eravamo
as Self
2011
Voi siete qui
as Self
2011
The Entrepreneur
Director (Directing)
2011
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
as Himself
2010
L'oro di Cuba
Director (Directing)
2009
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
The Demons of St. Petersburg
Director (Directing)
2008
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
as Self
2007
The Caiman
as Franco Caspio
2006
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
as Self
2006
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
as Self
2006
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
2005
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
as Self - Interviewee
2004
Western all'italiana
2004
Years of the Eagle
Director (Directing)
1997
Celluloide
as Civalleri (uncredited)
1996
Rome, November 12, 1994
Director (Directing)
1995
Un eroe borghese
as governatore Banca d'Italia
1995
The Long Silence
as Procuratore Capo
1993
Time to Kill
Director (Directing)
1989
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Director (Directing)
1987
Control
Director (Directing)
1987
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Director (Directing)
1984
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
Director (Directing)
1984
Turandot
Director (Directing)
1983
A Dangerous Toy
Director (Directing)
1979
Closed Circuit
Director (Directing)
1978
And Agnes Chose to Die
Director (Directing)
1976
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Second Unit Director (Directing)
1975
Giordano Bruno
Director (Directing)
1973
