Giuseppe Tornatore
Born in Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia — May 27 1956
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Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo. He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary film which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked for RAI before releasing his first full-length…
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Malena
Directing
Cinema Paradiso
Projectionist (uncredited)
The Legend of 1900
Directing
Ennio
Self
Everybody's Fine
Writing
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
Directing
Baaria
Directing
The Best Offer
Directing
The Unknown Woman
Directing
Quelli che il cinema
Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Self
The Star Maker
Directing
Mafia Millionaires
Crew
With Her Eyes
Writing
Under a False Name
Crew
The King of Ads
Directing
Especially on Sunday
Directing
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Self
The Professor
Directing
Marcello, una vita dolce
Self
The Prince's Manuscript
Production
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Correspondence
Writing
A Pure Formality
Directing
Everybody's Fine
Directing
Paradiso
Writing
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Self
Titanus 1904
Self
The Magic of Fellini
Self (archive footage)
Devotion
Directing
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
Self
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
Self
Ennio Morricone
Self
Brunello: The Gracious Visionary
Directing
I Don't Know the Men of this City
One Hundred Days in Palermo
Writing
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Self
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Self
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Proiezionista
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
Self
Bakunin's Son
Production
Cinque mondi
Self
Citizen Rosi
Self
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Himself
C'era una volta il prossimamente
Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Self
Il Mago di Esselunga
Directing
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
Self
A Dream of Sicily
Self
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Self
Lo schermo a tre punte
Directing
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
Tutte le storie di Piera
Il sognatore indiscreto
Directing
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
Self
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
Self
The First Dollar
Directing
Diario di Guttuso
Directing
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
Self
The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso