Giuseppe Tornatore
Directing
Born May 27, 1956 · Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia
Biography
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 film, Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evok…
Known For · 34 titles
Cinema Paradiso
Ennio
Quelli che il cinema
Cinque mondi
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis
The Magic of Fellini
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
Marcello, una vita dolce
Tutte le storie di Piera
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
A Dream of Sicily
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
Titanus 1904
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
C'era una volta il prossimamente
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso
Ennio Morricone
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Ferdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra
Citizen Rosi
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
I Don't Know the Men of this City
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa