Prolific Italian director, actor and film industry
executive, whose works comprise powerful political drama “Sacco and Vanzetti”
about the Massachusetts trial and execution in 1927 of accused Italian
anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, has died at his home in Rome
on September 6, 2023. He was 93. Born in Genoa, Liguria, Italy on February 22,
1930, Montaldo was still a Turin university student when, in 1950, director
Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film “Achtung Banditi!.” Montaldo then
moved to Rome in 1954, where he worked as a journalist for Italian newspaper Il
Tempo and after a few years decided to pursue a filmmaking career. In 1965.
That year Montaldo directed the second unit of Pontecorvo’s masterpiece “The
Battle Of Algiers” and In 1982, Montaldo directed the Emmy Award-winning
mini-series “Marco Polo,” co-produced by Italy and China which played on NBC in
the U.S. Later in his career Montaldo was appointed he first president of RAI
Cinema, the film arm of Italian state broadcaster RAI, a position he held
between 1999 and 2004. Giuliano was an assistant director on 1975’s “The Genius”
starring Terence Hill.
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