
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.

Ennio
2022

Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022

The Haunting of Helena
2013

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017

The Assassin
1961

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009

Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954

The Doll that Took the Town
1957

L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016

Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007

The Caiman
2006

The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1953

Everything You Want
2017

Noi c'eravamo
2011

Celluloide
1996

The Most Wonderful Moment
1957

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006

Il segreto di Otello
2015

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006

The Long Silence
1993

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004

Abandoned
1955

At the Edge of the City
1953

Un eroe borghese
1995

High School
1954

The Girls of San Frediano
1955

Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
2025

The Years of Lost Images
2012

Voi siete qui
2011

Tonino
2017

The Legal Death
2018