Giuliano Montaldo profile
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Giuliano Montaldo

22nd February 1930 Genoa, Liguria, Italy Directing

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.

40 Movies 1 TV Shows 43 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Ennio poster
Ennio 17th February 2022 as Self
Tonino poster
Tonino 28th December 2017 as Self
Celluloide poster
Celluloide 26th January 1996 as Civalleri (uncredited)
Abandoned poster
Abandoned 7th September 1955 as Scattered Soldier from Tuscany