Sandro Bolchi (Director)

Death Sentence

Four men killed Django's brother a long time ago. A withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. The relentless Django seeks for revenge and hunts them down without mercy.

Release Date1968-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count21

Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Release Date1974-11-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

I miserabili

The television series, based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, is one of the most impressive television adaptations of a literary work. Filmed in 1963 over a period of four months at the RAI headquarters in Via Teulada, it is set in France between 1815 and 1833.

Release Date1964-04-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

La coscienza di Zeno

A RAI miniseries, based on the novel by Italo Svevo.

Release Date1988-04-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

The Brothers Karamazov

Italian adaptation of Dostoevskys famous novel.

Release Date1969-11-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count6

Phaedra

Theatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.

Release Date1957-02-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Il mulino del Po

Release Date1963-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count9

Vote Count1

Quinta colonna

The story tells of Mr. Rowe, who was involved in Nazi espionage plots in the 1940s. In an attempt to shed light on his story and the role he is supposed to play, the man ends up at the center of a complicated story that, starting with a premonition announced to him by a gypsy, ends up seeing him as the protagonist of a poignant love story, a loss of memory, and a consequent hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital. Only at the end of the story does the protagonist arrive at a partial clarification of his position.

Release Date1966-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Birth of the Republic

A 1971 three-part miniseries about the birth of the Italian Republic, directed by Sandro Bolchi, Vittorio De Sica, and Ermanno Olmi

Release Date1971-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Bel Ami

Release Date1979-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Camilla

Milan, 1945. The war is over. But life is far from easy for those who have to start from scratch, amid rubble and misery. This is the case for Camilla, a woman no longer young, abandoned by her husband at the outbreak of the conflict, with three children between the ages of 17 and 20 to raise. Based on Fausta Cialiente's novel, Un inverno freddissimo (A Very Cold Winter), published in 1966, this is the moving story of an Italian "mother courage."

Release Date1976-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Puccini

A biographical miniseries about the life and love of the famous composer Giacomo Puccini.

Release Date1973-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Le mie prigioni

A RAI miniseries, based on the autobiographical novel of the same name completed by Silvio Pellico in 1843.

Release Date1968-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

I promessi sposi

A look at Alessandro Manzoni's novel and the tormented love story of Renzo and Lucia during the troubled years of Spanish rule in 17th-century Lombardy.

Release Date1967-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

Release Date1952-08-15

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2

Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso

Rockefeller is a tough and resilient man, who has spent his life as a cowboy in the Wild West, always without fear and without remorse. He is the head of a large family, which he leads with authority, sharp words and a passionate temperament. In the village, Rockefeller faces an alcoholic doctor, a wise wife, a generous-hearted girl and a sheriff who takes justice into his own hands.

Release Date1967-02-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Giorgio Washington ha dormito qui

A married couple buys a house in the country and spends a lot of money renovating it. But then the two protagonists find a manuscript by George Washington and become rich again.

Release Date1959-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Re Lear

An old king believes he can retire to private life, leaving his kingdom in the hands of his daughters. The two older ones don't take long to take over everything and reduce their father to a poor tramp. But the third daughter who married the king of France comes to the rescue. After a furious battle, a hecatomb takes place. Lear dies and with him his whole dynasty.

Release Date1960-07-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Venezia, carnevale, un amore

Release Date1982-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Non si dorme a Kirkwall

Set on a quiet, windswept Scottish island, the aging and somewhat lazy Pastor Mac Niff requests a curate to help him manage his eccentric parishioners. A young assistant named Newt arrives surprisingly early and begins using hyper-modern, bizarre methods to "save souls." It is eventually revealed that Newt is actually a rebellious devil who has deserted Hell to save humans—not out of goodness, but purely to spite Satan.

Release Date1960-07-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector