Gianni Amelio
Directing
Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945; Catanzaro) is an Italian film director. His film "The Way We Laughed" (1998) won a Golden Lion at the 55th Venice Film Festival.
Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother. The absence of a paternal figures will be a constant in Amelio's future works. During his university studies of philosophy in Messina, Amelio got interested in cinema, writing as film critic for a local magazine. In 1965 he moved to…
Filmography
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Battlefield
2024
Lord of the Ants
2022
Hammamet
2020
Pastime
2019
Someone Else's Home
2017
Tenderness
2017
Class Register. Second Book 1968-2000
2015
Class Register. First Book 1900-1960
2015
Happy to Be Different
2014
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero
2013
The First Man
2011
The Missing Star
2006
The Keys To The House
2004
The Way We Laughed
1998
Lamerica
1994
The Stolen Children
1992
Open Doors
1990
Via Panisperna Boys
1989
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
Blow to the Heart
1982
The Sailing Ships
1982
The Little Archimedes
1980
Death at Work
1978
Special Effects
1978
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
1976
The City of the Sun
1973
The End of the Game
The End of the Game
1970
The Year of the Cannibals
1969
The Seven Cervi Brothers
1968
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
1967
Almost a Man
1966
No Pain
No Pain