
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.
Acting (38 movies)

The Caiman
2006

Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
2025

Ennio
2022

High School
1954

Abandoned
1955

One Hour Only
2023

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006

The Most Wonderful Moment
1957

Raccontare Venezia
2017

Tonino
2017

The Legal Death
2018

The Doll that Took the Town
1957

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022

Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007

Un eroe borghese
1995

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012

The Years of Lost Images
2012

Voi siete qui
2011

Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954

Attention! Bandits!
1951

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009

Everything You Want
2017

La cieca di Sorrento
1953

L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004

The Long Silence
1993

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011

At the Edge of the City
1953

The Haunting of Helena
2013

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006

Celluloide
1996

The Assassin
1961

Vera & Giuliano
2020

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024

The Girls of San Frediano
1955

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Directing (23 movies)

L'oro di Cuba
2009

Giordano Bruno
1973

Machine Gun McCain
1969

Sacco & Vanzetti
1971

The Entrepreneur
2011

The Fifth Day of Peace
1970

Grand Slam
1967

A Dangerous Toy
1979

Closed Circuit
1978

The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987

Control
1987

Nudi per vivere
1963

Turandot
1983

Pigeon Shoot
1961
Years of the Eagle
1997

Time to Kill
1989

And Agnes Chose to Die
1976

The Demons of St. Petersburg
2008
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995

The Reckless
1965

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984

Extraconiugale
1964

Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Pigeon Shoot | 1961 | Screenplay |
| Duel of Champions | 1961 | Screenplay |
| Extraconiugale | 1964 | Screenplay |
| The Reckless | 1965 | Screenplay |
| Machine Gun McCain | 1969 | Writer |
| The Fifth Day of Peace | 1970 | Writer |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | 1971 | Screenplay |
| Giordano Bruno | 1973 | Screenplay |
| And Agnes Chose to Die | 1976 | Screenplay |
| Closed Circuit | 1978 | Screenplay |
| A Dangerous Toy | 1979 | Screenplay |
| Control | 1987 | Screenplay |
| The Gold Rimmed Glasses | 1987 | Screenplay |
| Time to Kill | 1989 | Screenplay |
| The Demons of St. Petersburg | 2008 | Screenplay |
| L'oro di Cuba | 2009 | Screenplay |
| The Entrepreneur | 2011 | Screenplay |