Gianni Amelio

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-01-20 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

Magisano, Catanzaro, Italy

Gianni Amelio

Biography

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 Rome, where he worked as operator and assistant di...

Acting

2019

2011

Voi siete qui

as Self (voice)

1970

The End of the Game

as l'accompagnatore

Production

2006

The Missing Star

as Director

2004

1990

Open Doors

as Director

1992

1994

Lamerica

as Director

1994

Lamerica

as Screenplay

1998

2011

The First Man

as Director

2011

The First Man

as Writer

1982

2022

Lord of the Ants

as Director

1989

1989

2013

2024

Battlefield

as Screenplay

2024

Battlefield

as Director

2014

2020

Hammamet

as Story

1973

2022

Lord of the Ants

as Screenplay

1994

Lamerica

as Story

1978

Death at Work

as Writer

1978

Death at Work

as Director

1968

The Seven Cervi Brothers

as First Assistant Director

1998

1978

Special Effects

as Director

1967

2017

Tenderness

as Director

2006

The Missing Star

as Screenplay

2006

1990

Open Doors

as Screenplay

2017

Tenderness

as Screenplay

1982

2017

1970

2020

Hammamet

as Director

1980

1980

2019

Pastime

as Screenplay

2019

Pastime

as Director

2020

Hammamet

as Screenplay

1982

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