Pietro GermiFilmography

Born:: September 14, 1914 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Genoa native Pietro Germi briefly attended the Instituto Nautico before entering Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematographia . There he studied acting and directing, supporting himself with a number of bottom-level movie industry jobs. In 1946, he directed his first film, Il Testimone, which he...Read More

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Amici Miei

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Gastone Moschin, Adolfo Celi, Duilio del Prete

Synopsis: The famed Italian film director Pietro Germi (his sharply observant and satirical films include The Immoralist, and Divorce Italian Style) began work on this comedy, but died before he could do more than write the screenplay. However, he lived long enough to choose Mario Monicelli as his Read More

8/15/75
Alfredo, Alfredo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina

Synopsis: This mildly amusing satire of Italian marital customs concerns a meek bank teller (Dustin Hoffman) who has an affair with pretty Carla Gravina, then learns that he is unable to get a divorce from his tiresome wife (Stefania Sandrelli). Hoffman learned his lines in Italian before making Alfredo Read More

8/4/72
Le Castagne Sone Buone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stefania Casini, Gianni Morandi

Synopsis: What started out as a one-night stand grows more complicated as television news-reporter Luigi (Gianni Morandi) encounters the traditional values not only of his girlfriend (Stefania Casini), but of the tiny provincial fishing village in which she lives. Through a series of events, he comes to Read More

10/29/70
Serafino

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ottavia Piccolo, Francesca Coluzzi, Benjamin Lev, Saro Urzi

Synopsis: Serafino (Adriano Celentano) is an illiterate shepherd who lives in the bucolic splendor of the Abruzis mountains. He takes frequent and amorous forays into the village below where he experiences all the pleasures his solitude cannot offer. He is quickly drafted into the military but is dismissed Read More

12/17/68
Casse-Tete Chinois Pour le Judoka

Crew: Director

2/9/68
L'Immorale

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Gigi Ballista

Synopsis: A philandering violinist must witness the consequences of his actions in this Italian comedy. Not only does the concert violinist have a wife and kids, he also has two mistresses, all of whom he dearly loves. Whenever he goes on tour, he is sure to give them all a loving call. Just as his newest Read More

1967
Signore e Signori

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Nora Ricci, Beba Loncar, Alberto Lionello, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Pietro Germi's funny anthology combines the standard sex comedy format with some unexpectedly subtle observations about village life. The film centers on three stories exposing the sexual secrets of the Italian town of Treviso. Toni Gasparini (Alberto Lionello) pretends to be impotent in order to Read More

2/10/66
E Venne un Uomo

Actors: Rod Steiger, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: It is no doubt extremely difficult to produce a film which is respectful of a world-renowned and widely loved man, recently deceased, who was considered to be either a saint or well on the way to being one. This unusual biographical film is based on writings (published and unpublished) of Pope Read More

11/19/65
Sedotta e Abbandonata

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzi, Leopoldo Trieste, Lando Buzzanca, Aldo Puglisi

Synopsis: Mistakenly labeled as a neorealist drama in some sources, Seduced and Abandoned is actually a slyly constructed Italian domestic comedy (could anyone have really taken that florid title seriously?) Aldo Puglisi plays a "love 'em and leave 'em" type who impregnates the teen-aged sister (Stefania Sandrelli Read More

1/30/64
Divorce, Italian Style

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Margherita Girelli

Synopsis: To fully appreciate the international box-office bonanza Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio All'Italiana), one must remember that back in 1962, divorce was illegal in Italy. Ferdinando Cefalú(Marcello Mastroianni) would love to unload his demanding, sex-starved, monumentally unappealing wife Read More

12/20/61
La Viaccia

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Paul Frankeur, Gabriella Pallotta

Synopsis: The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's Read More

8/15/61
Five Branded Women

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, Carla Gravina

Synopsis: Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Norma Rae) also deal with the question of social and Read More

3/15/60
Rossetto

Actors: Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll, Pietro Germi, Bella Darvi

Synopsis: In this mystery, a 13-year old girl gets a crush on her good looking neighbor and soon finds herself entangled in a murder case when a prostitute is found dead in their apartment building. To create an alibi for himself, the handsome neighbor begins encouraging the girl's infatuation with him. In Read More

1960
Un Maledetto Imbroglio

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Cristina Gajoni, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: A puzzling crime case is methodically worked out to a solution in this excellent suspense drama by director (and lead actor) Pietro Germi. Inspector Ingravallo (Germi) is charged with an investigation into the murder of the wife of Remo Banducci (Claudio Gora). The good inspector is only human Read More

1959
L'Uomo Di Paglia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pietro Germi, Luisa della Noce, Franca Bettoja, Edoardo Nevola, Saro Urzi

Synopsis: Though generally successful, L'Uomo di Paglia (A Man of Straw) is hampered by two of director Pietro Germi's most characteristic creative shortcomings: overlength and oversimplification. Germi himself plays the leading role, a young husband and father named Andrea Zaccardi. When he falls in love Read More

1958
Il Ferroviere

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pietro Germi, Luisa della Noce, Saro Urzi, Edoardo Nevola

Synopsis: Pietro Germi is both star and director of Il Ferroviere. Germi plays Andrea, a railroad engineer with a large and troublesome family. Faced with a choice between supporting his fellow workers in a strike and keeping his family fed, Andrea opts for the latter. Branded a scab by his former cohorts Read More

8/11/56
Amori Di Mezzo Secolo

Crew: Director

2/18/54
Black 13

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson, Patrick Barr, Lana Morris, Genine Graham

Synopsis: Peter Reynolds stars as the son of a respectable British family, who despite his position and privilege chooses to pursue a life of crime. Starting with petty thievery, the misguided young man intends to cap his career with a major casino heist. A policeman (Patric Barr), in love with the young Read More

1954
Gelosia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marisa Belli, Erno Crisa, Liliana Gerace

Synopsis: One need not be fluent in Italian to figure out that Gelosia translates to Jealousy. Set in 19th-century Sicily, the film traces the tragic romance between a wealthy Marquis (Erno Crisa) and low-born servant girl Agrippina (Marisa Belli). Because he is forbidden to marry the girl, the Marquis asks Read More

10/7/53
Il Brigante Di Tacca Del Lupo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amedeo Nazzari, Cosetta Greco, Saro Urzi, Fausto Tozzi

Synopsis: Il Brigante di Tacca del Lupo represented another move away from neorealism into sheer commercialism by Italian filmmker Pietro Germi. The story is set in the 1860s, when the Northern and Southern regions of Italy were forcibly assembled into a unified whole. A bandit loyal to the idea of Southern Read More

1952
La Presidentessa

Crew: Director

Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Carlo Dapporto, Ave Ninchi, Marilyn Buferd, Aroldo Tieri

Synopsis: Based loosely on fact, La Presidentress stars Silvana Pampanini as a sexy nightclub singer with loftier aspirations. Posing as the wife of a judge, the singer manages to bed a high-ranking government official (Carlo Dapporto). As a result, the nonplused judge (Luigi Pavese) is given all sorts of Read More

1952
Il Cammino della Speranza

Crew: Director

Actors: Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi

Synopsis: Disciples of Italian filmmaker Pietro Germi have noted the stylistic influence of Hollywood's John Ford in Germi's neorealist Il Camino Della Speranza. The story concerns the plight of illegal immigration, as experienced by a pair of Sicilian miners. Unable to find work in their own country, the Read More

11/22/50
La Città si difende

Crew: Director

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco, Paul Muller, Enzo Maggio

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida has top billing in Four Ways Out, but the film's dramatic weight is carried by its male stars. The story concerns a quartet of hard-luck cases, played by Renato Baldini, Enzo Maggio, Paul Muller and Fausto Tozzi. Feeling as though the cards have been stacked against them in life Read More

1950
In Nome Della Legge

Crew: Director

Actors: Massimo Girotti, Camillo Mastrocinque

Synopsis: Young Italian magistrate Schiavi (Massimo Girotti) finds the going rough when he assumes his new post in a small Sicilian town. The villagers are held in thrall by the local Mafia branch. Far from being outraged, the populace welcomes the intrusion of organized crime, believing that the Mafia's Read More

3/13/49
Fuga in Francia

Actors: Folco Lulli, Pietro Germi

Synopsis: Produced in 1945, Fuga in Francia was first released outside of Italy in 1949. Folco Lulli essays the difficult role of a war criminal who escapes prosecution by hiding out in France. Though there is nothing inherently likeable about his character, the Lulli manages to stir up a reasonable amount Read More

11/19/48
Gioventu Perduta

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Jacques Sernas, Massimo Girotti, Carla Del Poggio, Nando Bruno

1948