Gian Luigi Polidoro

Director

February 4, 1928 (72 years)

† September 5, 2000

Bassano del Grappa, Veneto, Italy

Biography

Gian Luigi Polidoro (4 February 1927 – 7 September 2000) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 16 films between 1956 and 1998. His 1963 film Il diavolo won the Golden Bear at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.

Filmography

5.3

To Bed or Not to Bed

An Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm.

6.7

The Degenerates

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Like the more famous version made by Federico Fellini, an adaptation of Petronius' Satyricon.

10.0

Rent Control

Leonard Junger, an aspiring television writer, tries to find a cheap apartment for his estranged wife and daughter so that they can be a family again. During his quest, he encounters mystery and murder.

7.0

Thrilling

An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.

5.5

Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?

Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.

5.1

Sottozero

An Italian blue-collar worker finds a job on a Norwegian oil platform, hoping to earn the money he needs to open a bar in his country.

8.5

La moglie giapponese

The accountant Taddei, an employee of an import company, travels to Tokyo for work and discovers that the colleague he has replaced has married a Japanese woman. His journey to the Far East brings him into contact with situations of extreme poverty that will deeply disturb him.

8.0

Fischia Il Sesso

A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant clandestine.

6.4

Run for Your Wife

Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.

9.0

Le svedesi

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Power Among Men

Four episodes on the theme of human hope and survival set in Santambrogio, Italy; Fermathe, Haiti; British Columbia and Kjeller in Norway.

6.5

Overture

Overture is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film depicts the peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations, set against the music of Beethoven's Egmont Overture, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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