Francesco Maselli

Known for DirectingBorn 1930-12-09Died 2023-03-21Rome, Italy

Francesco Maselli (9 December 1930 – 21 March 2023), also known as Citto Maselli , was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born into a well educated family (his father was an art critic) originally from the Molise region, Maselli graduated from the Italian National Film School in 1949 and began his career as an assistant and assistant director for Luigi Chiarini , Michelangelo Antonioni , and Luchino Visconti. After directing several short documentary and fiction films, he gave his feature film debut with the World War II drama Abandoned (1955), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Following a series of minor films, Maselli had greater success with Silver Spoon Set (1960, also titled The Dolphins ) and Time of Indifference (1964), an adaptation of a novel by Alberto Moravia. In the 1970s, Maselli turned to openly left-wing political films, notably Open Letter to a newspaper of the evening (1970) and The Suspect (1975), before shifting to more intimate films centered on female protagonists in the 1980s such as A Tale of Love (1986) and The Secret (1990). In 2021, Maselli was honored with a retrospective at the Venice Film Festival, where many of his films had seen their premiere. Maselli died in Rome on 21 March 2023, at the age of 92.Read more

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Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms

Sport minore

Dawn

Fioraie

Fragments of the Twentieth Century

Amarcord

Children in the Cinema

Pact with the Devil

And the Ship Sails On

The Terrace

Intolerance

Codice privato

Latin Lovers

Abandoned

Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

The Suspect

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

The Dolphins

Story of a Love Affair

Love in the City

The Lady Without Camelias

Time of Indifference

We, the Women

Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold

Three Girls from Rome

Lies of Love

Storia d'amore

The Doll that Took the Town

A Fine Pair

The Secret

Open Letter to the Evening News

The Red Shadows

Le Passeur immobile

Il segreto di Otello

Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

Scossa

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

All Human Rights for All

Civico zero

Uomini forti

Cesare Zavattini

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

Il compagno

Cronache del terzo millennio

Rome, November 12, 1994

Sabatoventiquattromarzo

Avventura di un fotografo

Bambini