Giorgio Capitani
Giorgio Capitani (29 December 1927 – 25 March 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 2012. He also wrote for 12 films. He was born in Paris, France.
Works
Divisione Folgore
In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
Release Date1954-12-30
Charactersd Postman
Vote Count6
Teste di quoio
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.
Release Date1981-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Man who Chases Away Fake Nuns (uncredited)
Vote Count7
The Flame that Never Dies
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Release Date1949-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd soldato francese alla locanda
Vote Count7
Goodbye Ringo
Release Date2018-02-28
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
The Marshal Rocca
The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).
Release Date1996-01-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count30
Vote Count8
Saluti e baci
Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones.
Release Date1953-08-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count2
Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur. Theseus, the Greek hero, tries to prevent it.
Release Date1960-11-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count14
It Happened in the Park
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
Release Date1953-12-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count10
Edda
Release Date2005-06-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Love I Haven't... But... But
Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
Release Date1951-12-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count3
Gun Moll
A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
Release Date1975-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
William Tell
Release Date1948-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
Mai storie d'amore in cucina
Release Date2004-05-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Slap Happy
A child runs away from a orphanage and meets a man, who takes him with him: the adult also dedicates himself to courting tourists to get food. However, his love for a girl leads the boy to boycott this bond, getting his protector into trouble and ending up in prison.
Release Date1969-12-20
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count3
Saint Rita
Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understands she has a mission: pursuing her path of peace, that will lead her to take the vows, and then to become Saint. Rita is a Saint of these days, who lived in a very violent age and was so brave to break free from the vengeance chain, through a deep, sincere and christian forgiveness. She is a particular Saint, talking to everybody’s hearts, as she was everything. She was a daugher, a wife, a mother and a nun, she experienced every sort of life, and in all her different lives she was a living model of christian life.
Release Date2004-09-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Che notte, ragazzi!
Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on the plane immediately after take-off. Tony has to reach the widow who is currently abroad.
Release Date1966-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Callas & Onassis
The life and passionate love of famous opera singer Maria Callas and Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis.
Release Date2005-11-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Shopgirls
Six very different people - Marta, Roberta, Fiorenza, Paola, Lucia and Romeo - work together in an elegant fashion boutique in the centre of Rome. They are all in thrall to the demands of their overbearing manager, Francesca. Each character knows that between the dramas of their own lives, the journeys to and from work, the children to care for, husbands, lovers, and parents, they will find solidarity with their fellow shop workers.
Release Date1999-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
Burnt By A Scalding Passion
Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet and fall in love. They suffer from being unable to realize their love without hurting their marriages but they don't know their respective spouses share a hot relationship...
Release Date1976-08-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.
Release Date2000-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later
Four episodes set on the beaches of Rimini: a womanizer pretends to be homosexual in order to gain the favors of a beautiful woman who ignores him. A mature beachgoer suffers from indigestion. A businessman unknowingly finances his wife's infidelities. Two wives from the south are forced to exchange partners.
Release Date1988-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
Amazons of Rome
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.
Release Date1961-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count8
Dove la trovi una come me?
Release Date2011-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
The Ruthless Four
After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everything he has found with him, he blows up the entrance. To help him exploit his discovery, he calls on his godson Manolo Sanchez. But Manolo is accompanied by "the blond," a strange man who seems to dominate him. Sam has no choice but to accept his company. He persuades his old friend Mason to travel with them as well. Greed and paranoia will eventually completely destroy the small band.
Release Date1968-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count24
Arrivederci e grazie
Tired of married life and of his profession, Carlo decides to leave the company he owns in the hands of his wife and leaves home to move to a rented house in the heart of old Rome. The man's son, Paolo, is a playwright looking for a coveted success and he too is looking for a new apartment: due to a mistake by the agency, they both end up sharing the same room. However, the two have an irreconcilable character and soon their differences come to light, with the situation taking a further unexpected turn with the arrival of the second son Giacomo and his wife Francesca, who is expecting a child.
Release Date1988-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
The Yellow Panther
Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the results is continuous failure.
Release Date1982-11-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count52
My Darling Slave
Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano. After their wedding, Rosalba's attitude changes when she decides to try turning Demetrio into the modern husband she'd like. This causes a problem, as Demetrius prefers sticking to what he sees as more traditional gender roles. Despite her attempts, Rosalba's persistent attempts to convert him to the rituals of high society, enlightened, or feminine tastes do little more than annoy him. Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can fulfill his visions of peaceful married life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a new wife as a slave. The choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua that he trains to act the way he'd like, then proudly shows to friends and to his former wife, attracting curiosity, envy, and his ex-wife's resentment.
Release Date1973-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
Lobster for Breakfast
Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job. Mario signs an order in exchange for Enrico's posing as Monique's husband. Carla invites them to stay overnight and join a business dinner party catered by Enrico's wife, Matilde. Enrico spends the evening trying to avoid her, Mario spends it chasing the willing Monique, and Carla wants to close a deal. Can this farce end happily?
Release Date1979-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count23
Callas & Onassis
Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her mother's preference for her sister. She grew up in an unhappy environment, until her career in the operatic world took off. Aristotles Onassis also came from a poor Greek family. His ambition took him places where others dare not go and became a shipping magnate whose great wealth bought his entry into an international society he didn't ever dreamed of entering. These two powerful personalities were so much alike that their own passion served to destroy them.
Release Date2005-11-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Italian Restaurant
Release Date1994-11-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
Pope John XXIII
This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope".
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.
Release Date1987-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count167
The Archangel
Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
Release Date1969-07-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
The Cossacks
Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.
Release Date1960-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count2
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
The story of Don Albino Luciani, a humble parish priest who won everyone's hearts with his love for his fellow man, rising from his parish to become Bishop, Patriarch of Venice, and finally Pope under the name John Paul I.
Release Date2006-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Seul face au crime
Release Date1991-01-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
I Hate Blondes
There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who has absolutely nothing in common with the heroes he writes about. Second, Emilio can't seem to publish anything under his own name.
Release Date1980-09-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Enrico Mattei
Giorgio Capitani reconstructs in the Rai TV film the parable of the famous entrepreneur, in a product that in technical terms does not escape the logic of television, but still manages to offer an interesting picture of a key figure of postwar Italy.
Release Date2009-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Last Meeting
The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.
Release Date1951-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count4
E se poi se ne vanno?
Release Date1989-10-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.
Release Date2009-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Hot Spirits
Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?
Release Date1981-12-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count19
Unknown Men of San Marino
A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.
Release Date1948-01-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count3
Milady and the Musketeers
An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.
Release Date1952-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Pane, burro e marmellata
Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to convince her to come back but her device is broken. By a strange twist of fate, it happens in the house of three women, Vera, Simona and Betty, who, tired of their respective husbands and boyfriends, live together and manage a boutique. By them he is pitied, pampered and even hosted in their apartment. And so Bruno, little by little, becomes the sultan of the little harem.
Release Date1977-11-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
7 Hours of Violence
A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. But the hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. A beautiful young woman helps to hide him until he can figure out a way to elude his pursuers.
Release Date1973-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Il generale Dalla Chiesa
Release Date2007-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Piscatore 'e Pusilleco
A wealthy and jealous merchant tries to lure a young girl away from her boyfriend by offering to pay to stage small singing concerts for her.
Release Date1954-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Dove la trovi una come me?
Release Date2011-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
The Magnificent Dare Devil
A race-car driver must elude the police and two rival criminal organizations as he tries to locate a suitcase full of heroin and absolve himself of murder.
Release Date1973-11-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Night Is Made for Stealing
A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted.
Release Date1967-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra
Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Episode 3: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes.
Release Date1978-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count38
A Woman Has Killed
In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film. With little means, a number of technical and financial problems and working Sundays with the pieces of film given to him bit by bit, Cottafavi shot Una donna ha ucciso, a minor film that marked his comeback to directing. (Gianni Rondolino)
Release Date1952-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
Samson and His Mighty Challenge
Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people.
Release Date1964-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Release Date2006-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII
The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Il piccolo vetraio
A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory.
Release Date1955-11-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
Musician Riccardo promised his son they would celebrate Christmas together in Turin. But a concert in Munich gets in the way. While Riccardo ventures to Turin, his son makes his way to the Bavarian capital.
Release Date1994-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Storm
André is a loving and attentive husband, but when he agrees to plead his enamored brother's case with student Françoise Massard, he in turn becomes infatuated with the beautiful woman, who is perpetually in search of true love through a series of hazardous romantic relationships. When Françoise learns that the legitimate couple are expecting a child.
Release Date1954-04-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!
Release Date1988-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
La trovatella di Milano
Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848.
Release Date1955-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Per salvarti ho peccato
Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection.
Release Date1953-12-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1