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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.
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22 December 1961
An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.
13 March 1970
Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
07 September 1967
Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe.
08 September 1988
After a sudden breakup, a woman uncovers her ex's unsent letters, revealing his true feelings and a secret.
16 February 1990
Lucia (Natassja Kinski) is a volatile, exciteable young woman. She forms a romance with Carlo (Stefano Dionisi), who is somewhat callow and is very skittish.
11 November 1996
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
27 October 1953
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
18 December 1973
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior.
04 September 2009
An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change.
27 September 1968
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.
05 September 1986
A young woman struggles to overcome the dehumanization of poverty.
14 December 2021
Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988).
08 February 1980
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
27 February 1953
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.
07 October 1983
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth.
05 October 1960
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
01 January 2003
Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
10 November 1995
Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system.
16 March 2012
100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.
12 January 2004
Indagine su un cittadino di nome Volonté is a documentary exploring the life and career of Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté.
27 November 1953
Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
24 September 1964
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
08 September 1984
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
06 January 1958
Short movie about a theater for children placed in Villa Borghese, one of the most beautiful places in Rome.
01 January 1949
A documentary.
07 September 1955
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa.
21 February 1975
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
03 November 1950
A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him.
01 February 1952
Three gorgeous seamstresses meet on the historic steps of the Piazza de Spagna in Rome to discuss one another's love lives.
11 January 1950
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film.
01 January 2005
Francesco Maselli takes us by the hand through the events, and his own involvement with them, that have marked the culture and arts of the past century.
09 October 2006
The epic of Hercules and Maciste to the live voices of witnesses and through the images of the Italian film journals.
01 December 2008
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
11 October 2007
Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of "Paisa" by Roberto Rossellini.
01 May 1949
This short documentary explores the world of Italian photo comics (fumetti), focusing on the models who posed as romantic heroes and heroines for popular illustrated stories.
06 February 1957
A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling.
06 December 1991
Karen arrives at hotel room no.772: she has a huge amount of bags and suitcases and she decided to leave behind her previous life and to meet Massimo, a man she met long time ago.
01 January 1951
A short documentary film about the life of children in the peripheric areas of a big city, left to themselves as they are shown playing various games.
10 September 2014
After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.
