) is an Italian

Cinema of Italy

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 film director

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While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi! (1951). Following this experience he began an apprenticeship as an assistant director of Lizzani and Gillo Pontecorvo

Gillo Pontecorvo

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, as well as appearing in the 1955 Gli Sbandati

The Abandoned (1955 film)

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In 1960 he made his debut as a director with Tiro al piccione, a film about the partisan

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 resistance, which entered for a competition in Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

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 in 1961. In 1965 he wrote and directed Una bella grinta

The Reckless

The Reckless is a 1965 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo. It was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:*Renato Salvatori ... Ettore Zambrini*Norma Bengell ... Luciana, moglie di Ettore*Antonio Segurini.....

, a cynical representation of the economic boom of Italy, winning the Special Prize of the Jury at 15th Berlin International Film Festival

15th Berlin International Film Festival

The 15th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 25 to July 6, 1965.-Jury:* John Gillett * Alexander Kluge* Ely Azeredo* Monique Berger* Kyushiro Kusakabe* Jerry Bresler* Karena Niehoff* Hans Jürgen Pohland...

. He then directed the production Grand Slam (1967

1967 in film

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) which starred an international cast including Edward G. Robinson

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, Klaus Kinski

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, and Janet Leigh

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. His cinema career continued with Gott mit uns (1969), Sacco and Vanzetti

Sacco and Vanzetti

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(1971), Giordano Bruno (1973), a trilogy about the abuses of the military, judicial and religious power; Tempo di uccidere

Tempo di uccidere

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(1989–1991), with actor Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

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 http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/50050/Tempo-Di-Uccidere/overview.
In 1982 he directed the colossal television miniseries

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 Marco Polo

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, which won the Emmy Award

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 for Outstanding Miniseries

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Filmography

• Tiro al piccione (1961)
• Nudi per vivere (1964) - documentary
• Extraconiugale, episode "La moglie svedese" (1964)
• Una bella grinta
  The Reckless
  The Reckless is a 1965 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo. It was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:*Renato Salvatori ... Ettore Zambrini*Norma Bengell ... Luciana, moglie di Ettore*Antonio Segurini.....
  
  (1965)
• Ad ogni costo (1967)
• Dio è con noi
  The Fifth Day of Peace
  The Fifth day of Peace, Italian title: Dio è con noi, is an Italo-Yugoslavian movie from 1969.-Synopsis:Two German deserters, Ensign Bruno Grauber and Corporal Reiner Schultz are captured by the Canadians at the end of World War 2...
  
  (1969)
• Gli intoccabili
  Machine Gun McCain
  Machine Gun McCain is a 1969 Italian crime film directed by Giuliano Montaldo based on the 1961 novel Candyleg by Ovid Demaris. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* John Cassavetes - Hank McCain* Britt Ekland - Irene Tucker...
  
  (1969)
• Sacco and Vanzetti
  Sacco and Vanzetti
  Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States...
  
  (1971)
• Giordano Bruno (1973)
• L'Agnese va a morire (1976)
• Circuito chiuso
  Closed Circuit (film)
  Closed Circuit is a 1978 Italian crime film directed by Giuliano Montaldo. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Flavio Bucci - Il sociologo* Tony Kendall - Roberto Vinci* Aurore Clément - Gabriella...
  
  (1978) - TV film
• Il giocattolo (1979)
• Arlecchino (1982) - short subject
• Marco Polo
  Marco Polo (mini-series)
  Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Ken Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm...
  
  (1982) - miniserie TV
• L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984) - short subject
• Il giorno prima
  Il Giorno prima
  ----Il Giorno prima is a Drama Italy film, starring Burt Lancaster - Ben Gazzara and directed by Giuliano Montaldo- Plot :This story takes place when they experience the dangerous psychological effects of mental fatigue conditions in a shelter. When carrying a dozen people in a nuclear shelter to...
  
  (1987)
• Gli occhiali d'oro (1987)
• Tempo di uccidere
  Tempo di uccidere
  Tempo di uccidere is a 1989 dramatic film starring Nicolas Cage. It is directed by Giuliano Montaldo. The film is set in 1936, when Ethiopia was an Italian colony, and was filmed in Zimbabwe...
  
  (1991)
• Ci sarà una volta (1992) - documentary
• Le stagioni dell'aquila (1997) - documentary
• I Demoni di San Pietroburgo (2008)

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