Alberto LattuadaFilmography

Born:: November 13, 1914 in Milan, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Italian writer/director Alberto Lattuada is the son of famed composer Felice Lattuada, who scored several of Lattuada's films. After studying to be an architect at the Berchet School in Milan, Lattuada supplemented his income as a newspaper and magazine writer. He entered the Italian film industry...Read More

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The Fine Art of Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Mary Nighy, Natalia Tena, Anna Maguire, Emily Pimm

2005
Il Toro

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Roberto Citran, Marco Messeri, Marco Paolini, Paolo Veronica

Synopsis: This feel-good movie, which offers American audiences spectacular views of Central European landscapes, uses gentle humor to tell the story of two common men who place themselves in an uncommon situation. Franco, a recently laid-off co-op stud farmer whose company jilted him out of his settlement Read More

1994
Christopher Columbus

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking out a swifter route to the lucrative Indies, Genoa-born Columbus begs King John of Portugal (Max Von Sydow) to finance a westbound expedition. Failing this, he turns to Read More

1985
La Cicala

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Italian drama, Wilma, an aging dance hall girl, befriends La Cicada, a feisty, free-spirited woman who refuses to have sex for money. Together, they go traveling and on the rode take up with the handsome Hannibal, who dreams of opening up his own truck stop/gas station. The two women end Read More

4/18/80
Cosi come sei

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Anja Pieroni, Giuliana Calandra

Synopsis: An idyllic May-December romance becomes unraveled when the much-older man begins suspecting that his tender young lover may be his own daughter, the result of an illicit affair many years before. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

9/14/78
Cuore Di Cane

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Max von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Based on the story by Mikhail Bulgakov, this Italian film tells the story of Preobrazhensky (Max Von Sydow), a surgeon, who is a professor of medicine in Moscow. Because he occupies a "big" 5-room apartment, after the Russian revolution is thoroughly in place, he is visited by the housing Read More

1/23/76
La Bambina

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When the ambitious skirt chaser Saverio (Luigi Proietti) meets serenely nymphomaniac retarded rich Clothilde (Teresa Ann Savoy), he finds he has met his match; he calms down and she wises up. After he has bedded the girls' mother and a housemaid, he tries to figure out how to make use of his Read More

1975
Le Faro Da Padre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

9/17/74
Sono Stato Io

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: An obsession with fame leads to life in prison for the window-washer in this Italian farce/satire. Biagio Solise (Giancarlo Giannini) loves working on the windows of the skyscrapers high above Milan but feels overwhelmed on the ground by the tumult and pressure of the crowded streets. He makes Read More

3/15/73
Bianco, Rosso e...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Antonio Alfonso, Bruno Biassibetti, Ezio Curti, Aldo Farina, Sergio Fasanelli, Pilar Gomez Ferrer, Carla Galletti, Francesca Modigliani

Synopsis: This comic Italian melodrama recounts the story of a friendship which develops out of a romantic obsession. The Italian communist party was largely independent of the Eastern Bloc, and has played a large political role in that country, particularly on the local level. This story tells of Annibale Read More

3/31/72
Venga a Prendere Il Caffe Da Noi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Milena Vukotic, Jean-Jacques Fourgeaud

Synopsis: Emerenziano (Ugo Tognazzi) is the middle aged tax inspector looking for a rich woman to keep from working and provide him with food and sex. He travels to northern Italy where he is taken in by three maiden sisters of less than average beauty. He marries one sister and takes the other two as Read More

9/22/70
L'Amica

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lisa is married to Paolo, an industrial designer, and is shocked to discover that he has been unfaithful to her. While visiting her friend Carla, Lisa pretends that she, too, has a lover and claims to be having an affair with the architect, Franco Raimondi. Ironically, Raimondi is having another Read More

12/23/69
Fräulein Doktor

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Suzy Kendall, James Booth, Roberto Bisacco, Kenneth More, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: Two German spies and a woman physician (Suzy Kendall) are taken by submarine to Scotland where they enter the country at nightfall. Their mission is to assassinate the British Field Marshall Lord Kitchener. The woman's male companions are captured, but she escapes with the knowledge of what boat Read More

1969
Matchless

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Ira Furstenberg, Donald Pleasence, Henry Silva, Nicoletta Machiavelli

Synopsis: A suave, sophisticated journalist gets hold of a magic ring of invisibility and obtains a secret formula. As a result he finds himself pursued by Chinese agents in this spoof of James Bond thrillers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

8/13/67
Don Giovanni in Sicilia

Crew: Director

Actors: Lando Buzzanca, Katia Christine, Pino Ferrara

Synopsis: Lando Buzzanca plays the legendary lover Don Juan in this erotic Italian comedy drama. Director Alberto Lattuada combines black and white with color photography to distinguish the difference between the action in Sicily and Milan. The plot takes place in the modern world of the 20th century. ~ Dan Read More

1967
Mandragola

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Leroy, Rosanna Schiaffino, Totò, Romolo Valli

Synopsis: A husband desperate for an heir, will do anything to produce one in this Italian drama, adapted from the long-banned Machiavelli classic. In desperation, the man sends his devoted wife to a man pretending to be a doctor. He convinces her to drink an infusion of mandrake weed, which he claims will Read More

11/18/65
La Steppa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Vanel, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the Read More

1/17/63
Mafioso

Crew: Director

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Ugo Attanasio

Synopsis:
In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost completely forsaken his southern Italian roots by marrying a fair-haired girl from the north and conceiving two children with her. As the movie opens, Antonio prepares Read More

10/25/62
L'Improvisto

Crew: Director

Actors: Tomas Milian, Anouk Aimée, Jean Valerie, Raymond Pellegrin

Synopsis: L'Improvisto is a suspenseful, effective drama by Alberto Lattuada about the careful planning and execution of a kidnapping. The "ringleader" and instigator of the clever plan is Tomas, a professor from a provincial town. His two cohorts are Claire (Anouk Aimée), his wife, and Juliette (Jeanne Valerie Read More

4/20/61
Lettere Di Una Novizia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this French drama, a woman preparing to take her vows to become a nun must write a letter describing her past indiscretions. She goes to a priest to confess that she had killed her former lover when she discovered that he had been sleeping with her mother. Her enraged mother gave her two Read More

12/1/60
I Dolci Inganni

Crew: Director

10/15/60
Les Adolescentes

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Christian Marquand, Jean Sorel, Claudio Gora

1960
La Tempesta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Silvana Mangano, Geoffrey Horne, Robert Keith

Synopsis: Based on the Alexander Pushkin story The Captain's Daughter, Tempest is set in Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. A Russian ensign named Peter Griniev (Geoffrey Horne), banished by Catherine (Viveca Lindfors) to a distant outpost, saves the life of Pugachov (Van Heflin), leader of a Read More

12/1/58
Guendalina

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacqueline Sassard, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Wealthy teenager Guendalina (Jacqueline Sassard) is a child of divorce. Oberdan (Raf Mattioli), likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Read More

2/20/57
Un Eroe Dei Nostri Tempi

Synopsis: This routine drama set in post-war Italy is the first feature by novice director Sergio Capogna and is based on a best-selling novel by Vasco Pratolini. The story centers around one main protagonist, a young man (Massimo Tonna) who in addition to growing into adulthood, has to come to grips with Read More

1955
La Pensionnaire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Martine Carol, Raf Vallone, Clelia Matania, Carlo Romano, Mario Carotenuto

Synopsis: La Pensionnaire was released in English-speaking countries as The Boarder. The title character is a good-hearted prostitute named Joy, played by Martine Carol. Unable to locate a cheap hotel room at a swank seaside resort, Joy settles for the only available space, which happens to be in a Read More

1954
L'Amore in Città

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). The film is divided into six separate episodes; the first of these, "Paid Love", is a straightforward study of prosititution written and directed by Carlo Lizzani. In the second, Michelangelo Antonioni Read More

1953
La Lupa

Crew: Director

Actors: Kerima, May Britt, Ettore Manni, Mario Passante, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: La Lupa (The She-Devil) was filmmaker Alberto Lattuada's first film after his classic The Overcoat. Based on a short story by Giovanni Verga, the film stars Kerima as the title character. Aptly named, La Lupa is a predatory female who considers every man she meets a potential conquest. When it Read More

1953
Il Cappotto

Crew: Director

Actors: Renato Rascel, Yvonne Sanson, Giulio Cali

Synopsis: The classic Nicolas Gogal fable The Overcoat is given a European flavor by Italian filmmaker Alberto Lattuada; some consider the film to be Lattuada's best "psychological study." Comedian Renato Rascel plays a nebbishy nobody who spends his life-savings on a fancy overcoat. Suddenly, the nobody Read More

1952
Anna

Crew: Director

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Vittorio Gassman, Gaby Morlay, Patrizia Mangano

Synopsis: Silvana Mangano portrays a fickle club chanteuse who must choose between the love of two men (Raf Vallone and Vittorio Gassman). She chooses neither, entering a convent for the sake of convenience. This overwrought drama was produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and reworked by five screenwriters Read More

1951
Variety Lights

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Federico Fellini's directorial debut (co-directed with veteran Alberto Lattuada), Luci del Varietà is a bittersweet drama about a bunch of misfits in a traveling vaudeville troupe. The group of actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make it from town to town, playing to minimal crowds. Their Read More

12/6/50
Il Delitto di Giovane Episcopo

Crew: Director

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Yvonne Sanson, Roldano Lupi, Ave Ninchi

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Alberto Lattuada's Flesh Will Surrender was released in the U.S. three years later. The film was adapted from a Gabriele d'Annunzio novel by three of Italy's top postwar scenarists: Suso Cecchi, Federico Fellini and Pietro Tellini. Aldo Fabrizi stars as Giovanni Episcopo, a Read More

1950
Il Mulino Del Po

Crew: Director

Actors: Carla Del Poggio, Jacques Sernas, Giulio Cali, Anna Carena

Synopsis: Il Mulino del Po was based on a novel by Riccardo Baccheli. Essentially an elaborate retelling of the old one about a pair of young lovers kept separated by family rivalries, the film is distinguished by its evocative location photography and tight, mathematically precise editing. Director Alberto Lattuada Read More

1949
Senza Pietà

Crew: Director

Actors: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina, Folco Lulli

Synopsis: Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film's sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and approval; Lattuada was never known to shirk from a sociopolitical statement, even when it meant loss of Read More

9/5/48
Il Bandito

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari, Carla Del Poggio, Carlo Campanini, Mino Doro

Synopsis: Filmed in 1946 as Il Bandido, The Bandit came to the U.S. in 1949 on the strength of the worldwide popularity of star Anna Magnani. The title character is Ernesto (Amadeo Nazzari), who turns to crime after suffering shell shock during WW II. Magnani plays Ernesto's faithful girlfriend Lydia. Their Read More

10/5/46
La Freccia Nel Fianco

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nicoletta Dossena (Mariella Lotti) is married to an engineer, Luigi Barbano (Roldano Lupi), but when she attends a concert, she encounters her former lover Bruno Traldi (Leonardo Cortese). He is now a successful pianist and their romance is rekindled after a decade apart from each other. Barbano Read More

9/8/45

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