Sergio Sollima

Known for DirectingBorn 1921-04-17Died 2015-07-01Rome, Italy

Sergio Sollima (April 17, 1921 – July 1, 2015) was an Italian film director and script writer. Like many Italian cult directors, Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s. After the genre's popularity quickly died out, Sollima was among the first ones to move to spaghetti westerns. The Big Gundown (starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian) was released in 1966 with big success, despite the fact that it had to compete with Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbucci's Django. Sollima soon filmed two more westerns. Face to Face (Milian and Gian Maria Volonté) was released in 1967 and Run, Man, Run! (Milian) in 1968. Although Sollima directed only three westerns and they never reached the level of popularity as the ones by the other Sergios (Leone and Corbucci), each of them are highly regarded among genre enthusiasts. In 1970, Sollima switched genres again and directed the Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas starred Violent City, which was one of the first violent and fast-paced Italian crime films often known as poliziotteschi. Like for all of his westerns, the soundtrack was provided by Ennio Morricone. Sollima's last well-known film is Revolver, a poliziotteschi film starring Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi.Read more

Movies & web series

I teddy boys della canzone

Solo per te Lucia

Solo per Dirti Addio

Love Steps

Ennio

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

Sergio Sollima: Face to Face

Sword in the Shadows

Berlin '39

Il mondo dei miracoli

Ricordati di Napoli

Carousel of songs

Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell

Spaghetti Western Memories

The Rebel Gladiators

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Run Man Run: 35 Years Running

Requiem for a Secret Agent

Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun

The Big Gundown

Sandokan

Face to Face

Revolver

Samson Against the Sheik

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Shack and puppets

Sodankylä Forever

Behind Closed Shutters

Western, Italian Style

Run, Man, Run

Knight of 100 Faces

Sex Can Be Difficult

The Secret of the Black Falcon

The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue

The Spaghetti West

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators

Tripoli, bel suol d'amore

Violent City

Goliath Against the Giants

Madri pericolose

The Black Corsair

Devil in the Brain

Foreign Earth

The Ten Gladiators

Ursus

Western all'italiana

Sodankylä Forever