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.
42 movies · 1 shows
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
2025·5.0
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024·7.1
One Hour Only
2023·8.0
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022·7.4
Ennio
2022·8.3
Vera & Giuliano
2020·7.0
The Legal Death
2018·7.0
Tonino
2017·0.0
Raccontare Venezia
2017·9.0
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017·6.5
Everything You Want
2017·7.4
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017·5.2
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016·5.5
Il segreto di Otello
2015·0.0
The Haunting of Helena
2013·5.7
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012·0.0
The Years of Lost Images
2012·0.0
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011·0.0
Noi c'eravamo
2011·10.0
Voi siete qui
2011·0.0
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010·0.0
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009·0.0
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007·10.0
The Caiman
2006·6.7
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006·9.6
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006·7.0
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005·6.8
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004·6.5
Western all'italiana
2004·4.0
Celluloide
1996·6.6
Un eroe borghese
1995·6.7
The Long Silence
1993·7.0
The Assassin
1961·6.9
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957·6.0
The Doll that Took the Town
1957·5.0
Abandoned
1955·7.0
The Girls of San Frediano
1955·5.3
High School
1954·6.5
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954·6.8
At the Edge of the City
1953·7.0
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1953·7.5
Attention! Bandits!
1951·6.1